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.