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.
- Demonstrated quantum interference of atoms & molecules:
- 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.
