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

02.04.2019
 

As of January/February 2019, our paper "Testing the limits of quantum mechanical superpositions" received enough citations to place it in the top 1%...

15.03.2019
 

"Coherent diffraction of hydrogen through the 246 pm lattice of graphene", has been published in New Journal of Physics!

24.01.2019
 

The Arndt Group published a new article on "Concepts for long-baseline high-mass matter-wave interferometry" in Physica Scripta

 

17.12.2018
 

The Arndt Group published a new article on "Pushing the mass limit for intact launch and photoionization of large neutral biopolymers" in...

06.12.2018
 

... by the Ministry of Science for his dissertation!

05.12.2018
 

The Arndt Group published a new article on "Probing macroscopic quantum superpositions with nanorotors" in New Journal of Physics