Our mission is ...

  • Universal matter-wave interferometry & the foundations of physics
    • Demonstrated quantum interference of atoms & molecules:
      Fullerenesvitamins,  macromolecules, molecular clusters, antibiotic polypeptides, and massive metal clusters. already exceeding 170'000 atomic mass units. 
    • Exploring new materials, complexity classes & internal dynamics in quantum interferometry:  
      proteins, metal clusters, dielectric nanoparticles.
    • Quantitative experiments on dephasing and decoherence.
  • Cooling and quantum optomechanics 
    • Optical cooling to trapped rotational quantum ground states.
    • Trapping & cooling of nanobiological matter
  • Enabling technologies for quantum experiments
    • Molecular beam sources for cold metallic, dielectric and biological nanomaterials.
    • Universal coherent beam splitter technologies
  • Quantum sensing
    • Matter-wave assisted force measurements with < 10-26 N sensitivity.
    • Trapped nanorotors for torque & rotation sensing on the micron scale.  
    • Superconducting quantum detectors for mass spectrometry & molecule analysis.

 Latest News

22.03.2021
 

We welcome Lorenz Hummer as our new Master-Student on Cavity Cooling.

17.03.2021
 

A New Paper "Universal matter-wave interferometry as a sensor in atomic physics and physical chemistry" is published on the SPIE Photonics West -...

04.03.2021
 

Congratulations to Markus Arndt, University of Vienna, and László Erdős, IST Austria on sharing the Erwin Schrödinger Prize 2020.

This prize is...

23.12.2020
 

Congratulations to Yakoov Y. Fein on his outstanding dissertation "Long-baseline universal matter-wave interferometry".

23.12.2020
 

Congratulations to Sebastian Pedalino on being selected to the Dean's list.

19.10.2020
 

We welcome Nafia Rahaman (Swinburne University/Melbourne), joining the QNP team in October 2020!