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Aidelsburger Lab: We are moving to Stanford! 

Prof. Dr. Monika Aidelsburger

The group is moving to Stanford University soon, and we are always looking for motivated students and postdocs to join us. Please visit our new website!

We are an experimental team developing quantum simulators based on ultracold atoms in optical lattices.

Quantum many-body systems exhibit fascinating properties ranging from exotic quasiparticle excitations to dissipationless transport. Understanding their properties and making use of them for future applications is, however, often hindered by the exponential number of ressources required for exact classical simulations. An alternative approach constitutes in building highly-controlled quantum simulators, whose individual constituents behave quantum mechanically and interact according to a set of dynamically-controllable microscopic parameters.

Our goal is to extend the applicability of cold-atom quantum simulators in order to study topological many-body physics, frustrated phases of matter and exotic out-of-equilibrium dynamics. Moreover, we are trying to push the level of local control over the microscopic parameters of the system for future applications in digital quantum computation and quantum simulation of high-energy physics.

 

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We are moving to Stanford!

October 10, 2026

Recently Monika accepted a new position at Stanford! 

In this work we prepare and study quantum spin liquids in 2D optical superlattices!

A research team led by Monika Aidelsburger at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) and the Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich (LMU) has identified a colour of light at which atoms become selectively “colourblind”: At this wavelength, the light has no effect on excited-state atoms, but strongly confines atoms in the ground state. The results, published in PRX Quantum, provide a powerful new tool for analogue quantum simulation and novel computing architectures.

We obtained our first microscope images with 171Yb

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