We are fascinated by and working on ...

  • Universal matter-wave interferometry & the foundations of physics
    • Towards metal cluster interferometry:
      a new material class in quantum physics to probe the interface to the classical world.  
    • From Polypeptide towards Protein interferometry:
      a new material class to study complexity & dynamics of biomolecules in quantum physics.   
  • Cooling and quantum optomechanics 
    • Optical cooling of non-spherical nanoparticles to explore their rotational quantum states.
    • Trapping & cooling of nanobiological matter to harvest their internal complexity. 
  • Enabling technologies for quantum experiments
    • Sources of metal clusters, dielectric and biological nanomaterials: for matter-wave interferometry.
    • Single-photon charge control and coherent beam splitting of proteins & metal clusters. 
    • Interfeormeter concepts for complex nanomatter.
  • Quantum sensors
    • Matter-wave deflectometers with high better than yocto-Newton force sensitivity:
      ... to measure electro-magnetic, optical & dynamical properties of molecules of interst to biology and chemistry.
    • Trapped nanorotors: 
      ... to realize highly sensitive torque & rotations sensors on the micron scale.  
    • Superconducting nanowire detectors:
      ... for mass spectrometry and molecule analysis, harvesting the sensitivity of quantum phase transitions.

 Latest News

12.03.2017
 

Our project on Coherent Optics for Long-Baseline Molecule Interferometry has been granted by the FWF.

06.03.2017
 

Our contribution to the Les Houches Summer School: Session CVII - Current Trends in Atomic Physics (2016) is on arXiv!

02.02.2017
 

The Arndt-Group has a new paper on "Selective photodissociation of tailored molecular tags as a tool for quantum optics" in the Beilstein Journal of...

01.02.2017
 

... for also receiving the Loschmidt Prize 2016 by the Chemical Physical Society!

01.02.2017
 

... for receiving the Award of Excellence 2016 by the BMWFW!

10.01.2017
 

We published a new paper on "New avenues for matter-wave-enhanced spectroscopy" in Applied Physics B!