Our mission is ...

Universal matter-wave interferometry & the foundations of physics
- Demonstrated quantum interference of atoms & molecules:
  Fullerenes, vitamins, 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

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21.09.2020

Congratulations to Moritz on completing his Master of Physics on September 17th, 2020!

03.08.2020

We congratulate Ksenija on completing her Master's on August 8, 2020, and on acceptance to the PhD programme!

16.07.2020

Our work on Bragg diffraction of dyes and antibiotics highlighted by Phys. Rev. Lett. and Physics

22.06.2020

Interferometric measurement of molecular diamagnetism published as "hot paper" in PCCP !

25.05.2020

Congratulations to Sebastian on completing his Master of Physics with distinction on May 25th, 2020.

25.05.2020

Congratulations to Yaakov on completing his PhD with distinction on May 22nd, 2020.

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