Quantum stochastic resonance of individual Fe atoms (MCQST-Colloquium) (Prof. Susan Coppersmith)

  • (tentatively in-person)
  • Date: Mar 29, 2022
  • Time: 14:30
  • Speaker: Prof. Susan Coppersmith
  • University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Stochastic resonance, where noise synchronizes a system’s response to an external drive, is a phenomenon that occurs in a wide variety of noisy systems ranging from the dynamics of neurons to the periodicity of ice ages. This talk will present theory and experiments on a quantum system that exhibits stochastic resonance — the quantum tunneling of the magnetization of a single Fe atom measured using spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy. [more]

Secure communications in quantum networks (MCQST-Colloquium) (Prof. Eleni Diamanti)

  • (tentatively in-person)
  • Date: Feb 15, 2022
  • Time: 14:30
  • Speaker: Prof. Eleni Diamanti
  • FranceCNRS & Paris Centre for Quantum Computing, France
Quantum technologies have the potential to improve in an unprecedented way the security and efficiency of communications in network infrastructures. We discuss the current landscape in quantum communication and cryptography, and focus in particular on recent photonic implementations, using encoding in discrete or continuous properties of light, of central quantum network protocols, enabling secret key distribution, verification of multiparty entanglement and transactions of quantum money, with security guarantees impossible to achieve with only classical resources. [more]

New twists on magnetism in flatland (MCQST-Colloquium) (Prof. Leon Balents)

  • (online)
  • Date: Jan 25, 2022
  • Time: 14:30
  • Speaker: Prof. Leon Balents
  • Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Recent advances allow study of truly two-dimensional physics in atomically thin van der Waals materials. Through examples, I will illustrate how tiny rotations of single atomic layers relative to one another induce new types of magnetism. [more]

Topological plasmonics: Ultrafast vector movies on the nanoscale (Prof. Harald Gießen)

We present an ultrafast vector microscope with 10 nm spatial and subfemtosecond temporal resolution which is capable of mapping all three vector components of the electric field as well as the magnetic field of light on nanophotonic structures. [more]

Unequal Chances and Hostile Workplaces: Sociological Research on Academic Physic (MCQST-Colloquium) (M.A. Valerie Dahl)

  • (online)
  • Date: Dec 7, 2021
  • Time: 14:30
  • Speaker: M.A. Valerie Dahl
  • Institut für Soziologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
In her talk, Valerie Dahl will give insights into sociological, process-oriented research methods as well as methodological approaches, and present her current research on gender-related discrimination in male dominated work fields and intervention strategies of (academic) physicists. [more]

+++ONLINE COLLOQUIUM+++ Infrared photon counting with superconducting nanowires (Prof. Robert Hadfield)

A host of emerging 21st century technologies rely on the ability to detect single photons at infrared wavelengths. Photon counting is an essential tool in quantum optics experiments. Quantum key distribution allows secure communications over long distance fibre optic networks or even from ground to space. [more]

Quantum Photonics – from quantum computing to quantum foundations exploring the quantum-gravity interface (Prof. Philip Walther)

The precise quantum control of single photons, together with the intrinsic advantage of being mobile make optical quantum system ideally suited for various applications, reaching from quantum computing to precision measurements. [more]

Quantum Information theory: From Entanglement to Quantum computing (MCQST-Colloquium) (Prof. Barbara Kraus)

  • (in-person)
  • Date: Nov 9, 2021
  • Time: 14:30
  • Speaker: Prof. Barbara Kraus
  • Universität Innsbruck, Austria
I will talk about two important challenges within Quantum Information: Multipartite entanglement and the verification of quantum computations. The better understanding of multipartite entanglement is highly relevant for many areas of physics. The entanglement contained in states can be sorted (partially ordered) via the study of state transformations. However, it turns out that this partial order is trivial in the whole Hilbert space. As will be explained in the talk, this fact does not prevent us from a better understanding of entanglement properties which are relevant in a physical context. Entanglement plays also an important role in quantum computations and the verification thereof. I will discuss some, very different, protocols designed for the verification of quantum devices. [more]

Field-resolved microscopy: true time-domain views of light-matter interaction (Dr. Nick Karpowicz)

When charged particles move, they inscribe a history of their motion into an electromagnetic field, which carries it away from the origin. Recording various aspects of this light has been one of our main ways of investigating the fundamentals of nature for centuries, but directly observing the waveform has only become possible thanks to recent advances in ultrafast technology. [more]

Electrons in 2D moiré superlattices (MCQST-Colloquium) (Prof. Jie Shan)

  • (in-person)
  • Date: Oct 26, 2021
  • Time: 14:30
  • Speaker: Prof. Jie Shan
  • Cornell University School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Ithaca/New York, USA
  • Room: B 0.32
When two van der Waals materials of slightly different orientations or lattice constants are overlaid, a moiré pattern emerges. The moiré pattern introduces a new length scale, many times the lattice constant of the original materials, for Bragg scattering of the Bloch electrons in each layer. This gives rise to moiré minibands and rich emergent quantum phenomena. [more]

+++ONLINE COLLOQUIUM+++ The 3rd quantum revolution: Quantum Algorithmic Experiments (MCQST-Colloquium) (Prof. Dorit Aharonov )

Following the second quantum revolution, which had completely undermined how we think of algorithms, the last decade gave birth to a third quantum revolution - which has changed the way we think of physical experiments. I will demonstrate this with some examples of how quantum computational ideas such as quantum error correction and quantum algorithms can be used to enhance conventional quantum experiments, to achieve increased efficiency and precision in sensing, metrology, and more. [more]

+++ONLINE COLLOQUIUM+++ DOUBLE FEATURE Dr. Olivier Morin and M.Sc. Fabian Schmid

DOUBLE FEATURE Dr. Olivier Morin and M.Sc. Fabian Schmid [more]

+++ONLINE COLLOQUIUM+++Quantum simulation with ultracold atoms – from Hubbard models to gauge theories (Prof. Dr. Monika Aidelsburger)

Well-controlled synthetic quantum systems, such as ultracold atoms in optical lattices, offer intriguing possibilities to study complex many-body problems in regimes that are beyond reach using state-of-the-art numerical techniques. This enables us, for instance, to shed new light on fundamental questions about the thermalization of isolated quantum many-body systems. Recently, a class of models has been identified that lies in between the extreme limits of thermal and localizing behavior. Here ergodicity-breaking occurs due to an emergent fragmentation of the many-body Hilbert space. A versatile platform that paves the way towards studying these phenomena is the 1D Fermi-Hubbard model with a strong linear potential. [more]

+++ONLINE COLLOQUIUM+++ DOUBLE FEATURE Dr. Thomas Chalopin and Dr. Rafał Ołdziejewski

DOUBLE FEATURE Dr. Thomas Chalopin and Dr. Rafał Ołdziejewski [more]

+++ONLINE COLLOQUIUM+++ Atoms Interlinked by Light: Programmable Interactions and Emergent Geometry (MCQST-Colloquium) (Prof. Dr. Monika Schleier-Smith)

Interactions govern the flow of information and the structure of correlations in quantum systems. Typical interactions decay with distance, resulting in a network of connectivity that is dictated by geometry. Yet a variety of applications, in areas ranging from quantum simulation to combinatorial optimization, demand more versatile control of the graph of interactions. [more]

+++ONLINE COLLOQUIUM+++ How to shrink accelerators and light sources? (Prof. Dr. X. Franz Kärtner)

The use of very high frequencies enables operation of accelerators at higher field strength with lower energetic driver pulses scaling with wavelength cube. Approaches towards a linear terahertz accelerator technology to realize ultrabright and compact electron sources for both ultrafast electron diffraction as well as X-ray sources are discussed. [more]

+++ONLINE COLLOQUIUM+++ Quantum geometry and topology in superconductors and superfluids (Prof. Dr. Päivi Törmä )

Superconductivity, superfluidity and Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) are many-body phenomena where quantum statistics are crucial and the effect of interactions may be intriguing. Superconductors are already widely applied, but theoretical understanding of superconductivity and condensation in several real-world systems is still a challenge, and superconductivity at room temperature remains a grand goal. [more]

+++ONLINE COLLOQUIUM+++ Microwave quantum optics in superconducting circuits (Prof. Dr. Yasunobu Nakamura)

Superconducting quantum circuits provide a versatile platform for cavity and waveguide quantum electrodynamics. [more]

+++ONLINE COLLOQUIUM+++ Networking Trapped Ion Quantum Computers (Prof. Chris Ballance)

Quantum networks of quantum computers offer a promising way to build quantum supercomputing clusters, as well as enabling the quantum internet. In this talk, I will present our work on networking trapped-ion quantum computers. [more]

+++ONLINE COLLOQUIUM+++ Neutron scattering studies of quantum magnets (MCQST-Colloquium) (Prof. Bella Lake)

  • Date: Jun 1, 2021
  • Time: 14:30
  • Speaker: Prof. Bella Lake
  • Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie & Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Festkörperphysik
  • Location: +++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++
Quantum magnetism studies the behaviour of magnetic materials where quantum fluctuations destroy the properties of conventional magnets such as long-range magnetic order and give rise to exotic behaviours. [more]

+++ONLINE COLLOQUIUM+++ From multi-photon entanglement to quantum computational advantage (Prof. Dr. Jian-Wei Pan)

Photons, the fast flying qubits which can be controlled with high precision using linear optics and have weak interaction with environment, are the natural candidate for quantum communications. By developing a quantum science satellite Micius and exploiting the negligible decoherence and photon loss in the out space, practically secure quantum cryptography, entanglement distribution, and quantum teleportation have been achieved over thousand kilometer scale, laying the foundation for future global quantum internet. [more]

+++ONLINE COLLOQUIUM+++ Quantum physics with macroscopic objects (MCQST-Kolloquium) (Prof. Eugene Polzik)

Recent ideas and technological developments make possible generation of entangled and other non-classical states of truly macroscopic objects [1,2]. [more]

+++ONLINE COLLOQUIUM+++Quantum Information And Quantum Foundations With Spins In Silicon (Prof. Andrea Morello)

Dopant atoms in silicon are a versatile platform for experiments in quantum information processing, as well as quantum foundations. The simplest incarnation, the 31P donor, was adopted in the first proposal for a silicon-based quantum computer [1]. The electron [2] and nuclear [3] spin of a 31P donor were the first qubit demonstrated in silicon, and went on to become among of the most coherent qubits in the solid state, with coherence times exceeding 30 seconds [4], and quantum gate fidelities approaching 99.99% [5]. [more]

+++ONLINE COLLOQUIUM+++Exoplanets and the Search for Atmospheric Biosignature Gases (Prof. Sara Seager)

  • Date: May 4, 2021
  • Time: 14:30
  • Speaker: Prof. Sara Seager
  • Planetary Science, Physics, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  • Location: +++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++
Thousands of exoplanets are known to orbit nearby stars and small rocky planets are established to be common. Driving the field is the study of exoplanet atmospheres, with the goal of detecting a gas that might be indicative of life. [more]

+++ONLINE COLLOQUIUM+++Quantum science with rare earth ions and Rydberg atom arrays (Prof. Jeff Thompson)

Atomic systems are at the frontier of many areas of quantum science and technology, including sensing and metrology, quantum simulation and quantum information processing. In this talk, I will present our work on developing novel atomic systems to advance these applications. [more]

+++ONLINE COLLOQUIUM+++Quantum light for quantum technologies (MCQST-Kolloquium) (Prof. Pascale Senellart)

Light, and more precisely quantum light, is a key ingredient of the emerging second quantum revolution. It is the cornerstone of many applications ranging from quantum computing to quantum networks, offering many flavors of “quantumness” and degrees of freedom to encode the information. [more]

+++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++Driven Quantum Materials (MCQST-Kolloquium) (Prof. Dr. Andrea Cavalleri)

I will discuss how coherent electromagnetic radiation at Tera-Hertz frequencies can be used to drive complex solids periodically, controlling the coupling between their collective excitations. [more]

+++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++ A Fermi gas of molecules with tunable dipolar interactions (MCQST-Kolloquium) (Prof. Dr. Jun Ye)

The advent of a degenerate Fermi gas of polar molecules sets the stage to explore novel many-body physics. We apply a precisely controlled electric field to tune the elastic dipolar interaction by orders of magnitude while suppressing reactive losses. [more]

+++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++ DOUBLE FEATURE Dr. Matthew Weidman and M.Sc. Annie Jihyun Park

Double Feature of Dr. Matthew Weidman and M.Sc. Annie Jihyun Park [more]

+++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++ Phase transitions in the complexity of simulating random shallow quantum circuits (MCQST-Kolloquium) (Prof. Aram Harrow)

The appeal of quantum computing is based on the fact that simulating N quantum systems on a classical computer takes time exponential in N. This exponential hardness is known to hold even for shallow quantum circuits, meaning unitary dynamics that run for a constant amount of time. We show that when the quantum circuits are made of random gates on a 2D geometry, they are not always exponentially hard to simulate. [more]

+++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++ Exotic Interactions with Light and Sound in Metamaterials with Broken Symmetries (Prof. Dr. Andrea Alù)

In this talk, I discuss our recent research findings in nano-optics, electromagnetics and acoustics, showing how suitably tailored meta-atoms and arrays of them enable new phenomena to manipulate light, radio-waves and sound. I discuss venues to largely break Lorentz reciprocity and realize isolation without the need of a magnetic bias, based on broken time-reversal symmetry induced by mechanical motion, spatio-temporal modulation and/or nonlinearities. [more]

+++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++ Collisions between cold molecules in a superconducting magnetic trap (Prof. Dr. Edvardas Narevicius)

Collisions between cold molecules are essential for studying fundamental aspects of quantum chemistry, and may enable formation of quantum degenerate molecular matter by evaporative cooling. However, collisions between trapped, naturally occurring molecules have so far eluded direct observation due to the low collision rates of dilute samples. [more]

+++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++ Multidecade nonlinear optics with ultrashort pulses in the mid-infrared (Prof. Aleksei Zheltikov)

  • Date: Dec 15, 2020
  • Time: 14:30
  • Speaker: Prof. Aleksei Zheltikov
  • Physics Department, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University Russian Quantum Center, Moscow, Russia
  • Location: +++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++
Combined optical nonlinearity of bound and free electrons in a fast-ionizing medium driven by ultrashort, high-peak-power mid-infrared (mid-IR) pulses gives rise to a vast variety of ultrafast nonlinear-optical scenarios, producing bright and remarkably broadband radiation in spectral ranges as different as ultraviolet (UV), terahertz (THz), and microwave frequency bands. Given its enormous bandwidth, a quantitative experimental analysis of this type of nonlinear response is anything but simple. [more]

+++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++ DOUBLE FEATURE Dr. Isabel Rabey and Dr. Lorenzo Piroli

Double Feature of Dr. Isabel Rabey and Dr. Lorenzo Piroli [more]

+++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++ Entangled optical atomic clock (MCQST-Kolloquium) (Prof. Vladan Vuletić)

Entangled states of many particles can be used to overcome limits on measurements performed with ensembles of independent atoms (standard quantum limit). A particularly simple form of entanglement is spin squeezing, where the quantum noise for the variable of interest, e.g., the phase of an atomic clock, is redistributed into another variable. [more]

+++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++ Probing the helium dimer and trimer with fast, intense lasers (Prof. Doerte Blume)

Helium is the only element that remains liquid under normal pressure down to zero temperature. Below 2.17K, bulk helium-4 is superfluid. Motivated by this intriguing behavior, the properties of finite-sized helium droplets have been studied extensively over the past 30 years or so. Some properties of liquid helium-4 droplets are, just as those of nuclei, well described by the liquid drop model. The existence of the extremely fragile helium dimer was proven experimentally in 1994 in diffraction grating experiments. [more]

+++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++ Topological Photonics (Dr. Iacopo Carusotto)

In this talk I will give an overview of the novel field of topological photonics. This field merges platforms and techniques from AMO physics with ideas from topological states of matter so to enlarge the functionalities of photonic devices and explore new topological effects in wave mechanics and quantum many-body physics. [more]

+++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++ (MCQST-Kolloquium) Strong electronic correlations in 2D semiconductors (Prof. Dr. Atac Imamoglu)

When the Coulomb repulsion between electrons dominates over their kinetic energy, electrons in two dimensional systems were predicted to spontaneously break continuous translation symmetry and form a quantum crystal. Efforts to observe this elusive state of matter, termed a Wigner crystal, in two dimensional extended systems have primarily focused on electrons confined to a single Landau level at high magnetic fields, but have not provided a conclusive experimental signature of the emerging charge order. [more]

+++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++ Integrated optical trapped-ion quantum control (Dr. Karan Mehta)

The high coherence and precise control possible with trapped atomic ion qubits have enabled some of the most capable quantum computing and simulation systems currently operating. But executing useful calculations will require significant advances both in precision/robustness of basic operations and in scale; the formidable associated challenges, particularly with regard to the optics required, motivate exploration of new physical and engineering approaches to trapped-ion quantum control. [more]

+++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++ Superconducting opto-electronic circuits and applications (Dr. Sonia Buckley)

  • Online kolloquium on July 21th, 2020 at 4:30 p.m. if online only!
  • Date: Jul 21, 2020
  • Time: 16:30
  • Speaker: Dr. Sonia Buckley
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg Maryland, USA
  • Location: +++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++
While traditional computers can simulate the function of the biological brain, this comes at a huge disadvantage in terms of speed and energy use. However, directly emulating the structure of the brain in hardware is extremely challenging due to the very high physical fanout, localized memory and analog/digital hybrid computation. [more]

+++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++ Attosecond Valence Band Dynamics in Solids (Prof. Ulf Kleineberg)

Attosecond time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy provides new insights into the photoelectric effect and gives information about the relative as well as absolute timing of photoemission from different electronic states like core versus valence band states within the electronic band structure of solids. [more]

+++Online Kolloquium+++ Quantum Light from Four-Wave Mixing with a Dark Atom (M. Sc. Bo Wang)

Single photons can be generated from a single atom strongly coupled to a optical cavity via a stimulated Raman adiabatic passage between two atomic ground states [1]. During the generation of the photon, the atom stays within the dark state of electromagnetically induced transparency(EIT) avoiding spontaneous decay from the excited state. [more]

+++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++ Surprises from Time Crystals (Prof. Vedika Khemani)

Recent years have witnessed a remarkable confluence of diverse areas of physics coming together to inform fundamental questions about many-body quantum matter. A unifying theme in this enterprise has been the study of many-body quantum dynamics in systems ranging from electrons in solids to cold atomic gases to black holes. [more]

+++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++ A subradiant atomic mirror (M. Sc. David Wei)

When quantum emitters are spatially structured on sub-wavelength scales, photon-mediated dipole-dipole interactions can strongly alter the spectral and directional radiative response. Tightly trapped atoms in optical lattices, only coupled to the electromagnetic vacuum, constitute ideal dipolar emitters to study such cooperative behaviour. [more]

+++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++ Broad-spectral-bandwidth molecular spectroscopy with laser frequency combs (Dr. Zaijun Chen)

Laser frequency combs enable new approaches to molecular spectroscopy [1]. Dual-comb spectroscopy, a technique of Fourier-transform interferometry with two frequency combs of slightly different repetition rates, holds much promise for broadband, high-¬resolution, precise, and sensitive molecular fingerprinting. Its development in the mid-infrared region (2-20 µm), where most molecules have strong rovibrational transitions, is of fundamental interest to molecular science, though technically challenging. [more]

+++ONLINE TALK+++ Novel avenues for robust free-space quantum communications (Prof. Thomas Jennewein)

Quantum information processing and quantum communication are novel protocols that originate from the very fundamental and philosophical questions on superposition and entanglement raised since the early days of quantum mechanics. Strikingly, these new protocols offer capabilities beyond communication task possible with classical physics. [more]

+++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++ (MCQST-Kolloquium) Topological materials science (Prof. Claudia Felser)

Topology, a mathematical concept, recently became a hot and truly transdisciplinary topic in condensed matter physics, solid state chemistry and materials science. Since there is a direct connection between real space: atoms, valence electrons, bonds and orbitals, and reciprocal space: bands, Fermi surfaces and Berry curvature, a simple classification of topological materials in a single particle picture should be possible. [more]

+++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++ Circular Rydberg atoms : exploring and harnessing the quantum (Prof. Jean-Michel Raimond)

Circular Rydberg atoms are ideal tools for exploring and harnessing the quantum. These very excited states, the closest to the Bohr circular orbit model, feature a very long lifetime, an extremely strong coupling to electromagnetic fields and a large dipole-dipole mutual interaction. [more]

+++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++ Levitodynamics (Prof. Lukas Novotny)

I discuss our experiments with optically levitated nanoparticles in ultrahigh vacuum. Using both active and passive feedback techniques we cool the particle’s center-of-mass temperature below T 100μK and reach mean quantum occupation numbers of n = 4. [more]

+++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++ Solving the Proton Radius Puzzle (Prof. Douglas Higinbotham)

For many years scientists believed that the proton radius was 0.877(6) fm based on a series of atomic Lamb shift and electron scattering measurements. In 2010, a new type of measurement, making use of muonic hydrogen, determined the radius to be 0.842(1) fm. [more]

+++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++ (MCQST-Kolloquium) Bringing together Physics and Chemistry with Ultracold Polar Molecules (Prof. Kang-Kuen Ni)

The role of molecular spectroscopy in physics has evolved over the years. It was traditionally used to study molecular structure and its underlying quantum mechanics. Later, it led to various applications, including the first “atomic clock” that was actually based on molecular vibrations. More recent advances in techniques for quantum manipulation of molecules bring new directions including the use of molecules to search for new physics, harnessing molecular resources for quantum engineering, and exploring chemical reactions in the ultra-low temperature regime. [more]

+++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++Large-Scale Quantum Photonics for Computing and Communications (Prof. Dirk Englund)

Recent advances in materials, control, and nanofabrication now open the prospect for scalable quantum technologies based on solid-state quantum systems. In particular, photonic integrated circuits (PICs) now allow routing photons with high precision and low loss, and solid-state artificial atoms provide high-quality spin-photon interfaces. [more]

+++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++Collectively encoded qubits using Rydberg polaritons (Prof. Charles Adams)

Rydberg atoms offer a versatile platform for a range quantum applications including quantum computing, quantum optics and sensing. Whereas Rydberg quantum computers use individual atoms in an optical tweezer array, quantum non-linear optics is mainly based on ensembles. In this talk, I discuss a hybrid approach where individual qubits are encoded in atomic ensembles. [more]

+++ONLINE KOLLOQUIUM+++Resuscitating molecular lasers: compact widely tunable sources from 200 GHz to > 1 THz (Prof. Federico Capasso)

Far-IR lasers have fallen largely in disuse due to their very limited tunability, poor power efficiency and bulk. We have realized compact, widely frequency-tunable, bright far IR lasers: a gas-phase molecular laser based on rotational population inversion optically pumped by a quantum cascade laser. [more]

Cooperative effects and Anderson localization of light with cold atoms (Prof. Romain Bachelard)

Cold atom clouds scattering light appear are an ideal platform tocouple atoms, either classically or quantum-mechanically, thanks tothe long-range interactions mediated by the light: In 3D, thedipole-dipole interaction present a long-range 1/r decay, which givesrise to macroscopic modes and 'cooperative' effects. [more]

Quantum nonlinear optics using 2D atomic arrays (Prof. Darrick Chang)

Traditional quantum interfaces between atomic ensembles and light have relied upon disordered three-dimensional atomic gases. Recently, however, there have been significant efforts toward exploring whether ordered arrays of atoms can give rise to qualitatively different quantum optical phenomena and functionality, specifically due to strong interference in light emission arising from spatial ordering. Here, we discuss ongoing work to explore this question in two-dimensional arrays. [more]

Parity Measurements in Action: Detecting Errors in the Surface Code and Heralding Itinerant Cat States using Superconducting Circuits (Prof.Christopher Eichler)

Parity Measurements in Action: Detecting Errors in the Surface Code and Heralding Itinerant Cat States using Superconducting Circuit
Parity measurements distinguish between quantum states with an even and an odd number of excitations without revealing any additional information about the state. Nondestructive parity detection allows one to project onto highly entangled states and therefore plays a central role in quantum error correction. [more]

Simulating quantum magnetism with quantum dot Arrays (Prof. Lieven Vandersypen)

Simulating quantum magnetism with quantum dot Arrays
Gate-defined quantum dots have recently emerged as an attractive platform for analog quantum simulation. A quantum dot array naturally emulates the extended Fermi-Hubbard model. The energy scales cover the most relevant parts of the phase diagram, with individually tunable hopping energies well below the on-site interaction energies and at the same time far exceeding the thermal energy. In addition, site-specific potential offsets are individually tunable, further extending the range of physical phenomena that can be explored. [more]

The quantum phases of dipolar quantum gases ( Porf. Francesca Ferlaino)

The quantum phases of dipolar quantum gases
Ultracold quantum gases are a powerful platform to address key questions in quantum physics and a powerful resource to realize novel paradigms and novel phases of quantum matter. Moreover, the potential of such systems is becoming ever more enabling as scientists acquire an increasingly fine control over optical manipulation and inter-particle interactions. [more]

From Optical Communications to the Brain: Integrated Photonics on Silicon (Prof. Joyce Poon)

From Optical Communications to the Brain: Integrated Photonics on Silicon
Foundry-manufactured, monolithically integrated multilayer silicon nitride-on-silicon photonic platforms are suitable for large-scale photonic circuits. [more]

Ultracold atoms carrying orbital angular momentum in lattices of rings: topology and quantum magnetism ( Prof. Veronica Ahufinger)

Ultracold atoms carrying orbital angular momentum in lattices of rings: topology and quantum magnetism
In this talk, we discuss the physics of ultracold atoms carrying Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) in lattices of ring potentials both in the single-particle and in the Mott insulator limits. In the former limit, we find topologically protected edge states. In the latter limit, we show that the system can realize a variety of spin-1/2 models, including the XYZ Heisenberg model with or without external field. [more]

Polariton-electron interactions in two dimensional materials (Prof. Atac Imamoglu)

Polariton-electron interactions in two dimensional materials
Two dimensional materials provide new avenues for synthesizing compound quantum systems. Monolayers with vastly different electric, magnetic or optical properties can be combined in van der Waals heterostructures which ensure the emergence of new functionalities; arguably, the most spectacular example to date is the observation of strong correlations and low electron density superconductivity in Moire superlattices obtained by stacking two monolayers with a finite twist angle. [more]

Heavy Neutrinos as a Key to understand the Universe (Prof. Marco Drewes)

Heavy Neutrinos as a Key to understand the Universe
Neutrino flavour oscillations indicate that neutrinos have tiny masses. They are the only firmly established proof of physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics that has been observed in the laboratory. Understanding the origin of neutrino masses may therefore provide a key to understand how the Standard Model should be embedded in a more fundamental theory of Nature. [more]

Topological Superconductivity and Majorana Fermions in Coupled Wires (Fan Yang)

Topological Superconductivity and Majorana Fermions in Coupled Wires
In the first part, we present a theoretical study of the interplay between topological p-wave superconductivity, orbital magnetic fields and quantum Hall phases in coupled wire systems. We consider two-dimensional systems made of weakly coupled ladders. There, we engineer a p+ip superconductor with the chiral Majorana edge current and describe a generalization of the ν = 1/2 fractional quantum Hall phase. These phases might be realized in solid-state or cold-atom nanowires. For the second part, we will address the spin ladder analogs of the Kitaev honeycomb model. A generalized phase diagram for the two-leg ladder system is obtained together with a driven time-dependent protocol based on superconducting box circuits. [more]

Complexity in quantum field theory (Dr. Michal Heller)

Complexity in quantum field theory
Recent developments in holography (AdS/CFT) has led to a conjecture that spacetime volume inside a black hole is related to complexity in a dual quantum field theory. This development has provided strong stimulous for understanding definitions and properties of complexity in quantum field theory and I will review some of the results in this emerging area. [more]

Quantum optics and quantum information science in multi-dimensional photonics Networks (Prof. Christine Silberhorn)

Quantum optics and quantum information science in multi-dimensional photonics Networks
Photonic quantum systems, which comprise multiple optical modes as well as highly non-classical and sophisticated quantum states of light, have been investigated intensively in various theoretical pro­posals over the last decades. The ideas cover a large range of different applications in quantum technology, spanning from quantum communication and quantum metrology to quantum simulations and quantum computing. However, the experimental implementations require advanced setups of high complexity, which poses a considerable challenge. The successful realization of controlled quantum network structures is key for the future advancement of the field. [more]

Ultrafast road to extremely efficient chiral light matter interaction ( Prof. Olga Smirnova)

Ultrafast road to extremely efficient chiral light matter interaction
Chirality plays a key role in physics, chemistry and biology. In the molecular world, the non-superimposable mirror twins of the same chiral molecule – the left-handed and right handed enantiomers – have the same physical properties unless they interact with another chiral object. Distinguishing left- and right-handed molecular enantiomers is very challenging, especially on ultrafast time scale, with standard all-optical techniques leading to extremely weak chiral signals. [more]

A step for gauge fields in lattices and a twist by Dissipation ( Prof. Tilman Esslinger)

A step for gauge fields in lattices and a twist by Dissipation
The coupling between gauge and matter fields plays an important role in many models of high-energy and condensed matter physics. In these models, the gauge fields are dynamical quantum degrees of freedom in the sense that they are influenced by the spatial configuration and motion of the matter field. So far, synthetic magnetic fields for atoms in optical lattices were intrinsically classical, as these did not feature back-action from the atoms. [more]

Quantum Critical Metals

Quantum Critical Metals
Metallic quantum critical phenomena are believed to play a key role in many strongly correlated materials, including high temperature superconductors. Theoretically, the problem of quantum criticality in the presence of a Fermi surface has proven to be highly challenging. However, it has recently been realized that many models used to describe such systems are amenable to numerically exact solution by quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) techniques, without suffering from the fermion sign problem. [more]

Double Feature: Broadband Infrared Diagnostics to tackle living systems (Dr. Mihaela Zigman & M.Sc. Marinus Huber )

The molecular composition of systemic biofluids is a sensitive indicator of human physiological states, very relevant for disease detection and health monitoring. Thus, the capability of observing signatures of miniscule changes in concentration of a wide variety of molecules embedded in complex organic consortia of liquid biopsies is crucial for advancing systems biology and medical diagnostics. [more]

Double Feature: Anomalous Floquet phases in periodically-driven hexagonal lattices (M.Sc. Karen Wintersperger)

Double Feature: Anomalous Floquet phases in periodically-driven hexagonal lattices
Ultracold atoms in periodically-driven optical lattices can be used to simulate systems with nontrivial topological properties. Due to the periodic driving, energy conservation is relaxed which makes it possible to realize systems with properties that go beyond those of conventional static systems. For instance, chiral edge modes can exists even if the bulk is topologically trivial [1]. [more]

T First neutrino mass results from KATRIN (Dr. Thierry Lasserre)

T First neutrino mass results from KATRIN
The KATRIN experiment is designed to directly probe the mass of neutrinos with a sensitivity of 0.2 eV (90% CL). KATRIN offers a model-independent approach based principally on the kinematics of tritium beta decay. [more]

Double feature: Bridging machine learning and quantum physics with tensor Networks (Dr. Ivan Glasser)

Double feature: Bridging machine learning and quantum physics with tensor Networks
Finding efficient representations of high-dimensional functions is a central problem in both machine learning and the simulation of quantum many-body systems. [more]

Double feature: A Quantum Network Node with Crossed Fiber Cavities (M.Sc. Manuel Brekenfeld)

Recent experimental advancement in the field of optical cavity QED comprises two directions of development: A further reduction of the mode volumes of the resonators, as with the development of fiber-based Fabry-Perot cavities (FFPCs) [1], and an increase in the number of well-controlled modes the emitters can couple to [2, 3]. [more]

Quantum Computing NISQ Era and beyond

Quantum Computing NISQ Era and beyond
Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) technology will be available in the near future. Quantum computers with 50-100 qubits may be able to perform tasks which surpass the capabilities of today's classical digital computers, but noise in quantum gates will limit the size of quantum circuits that can be executed reliably [more]

Towards Highly Storage Efficiency of Optical Quantum Memory Based on Electromagnetically Induced Transparency Protocol

Towards Highly Storage Efficiency of Optical Quantum Memory Based on Electromagnetically Induced Transparency Protocol
Long-distance quantum communication based on quantum repeater protocol [more]

Probing dynamical properties of Fermi-Hubbard systems with a quantum gas microscope (Prof. Waseem Bakr)

Probing dynamical properties of Fermi-Hubbard systems with a quantum gas microscope
The normal state of high-temperature superconductors exhibits anomalous transport and spectral properties that are poorly understood. Cold atoms in optical lattices have been used to realize the celebrated Fermi-Hubbard model, widely believed to capture the essential physics of these materials. The recent development of fermionic quantum gas microscopes has enabled studying Hubbard systems with single-site resolution. Most studies have focused on probing equal-time spin and density correlations. [more]

Trapped ion optical clocks and tests of the equivalence principle (Dr. Ekkehard Peik)

Trapped ion optical clocks and tests of the equivalence principle
Optical clocks based on different atoms and ions with uncertainties in the low 10-18 range allow for frequency comparisons that can be used in tests of fundamental physics, like in quantitative tests of relativity and searches for violations of the equivalence principle. [more]

Laser-cooled molecules for quantum science and tests of fundamental physics (Prof. Michael Tarbutt)

Laser-cooled molecules for quantum science and tests of fundamental physics
Ultracold molecules can be used to test fundamental physics, simulate many-body quantum systems, process quantum information, and study ultracold chemistry. [more]

Probing our understanding of particle- and astrophysics with neutrons (Prof. Stephan Paul)

Probing our understanding of particle- and astrophysics with neutrons
Precision experiments probing the properties of neutrons and details of their decay can reveal important information for both particle and astrophysics. [more]

Passion extreme light (Prof. Gérard Mourou)

Passion extreme light
Extreme-light laser is a universal source providing a vast range of high energy radiations and particles along with the highest field, highest pressure, temperature and acceleration. It offers the possibility to shed light on some of the remaining unanswered questions in fundamental physics like the genesis of cosmic rays with energies in excess of 1020 eV or the loss of information in black-holes. [more]

Automatic Differentiation of Tensor Expressions

Automatic Differentiation of Tensor Expressions
Automatic differentiation is a powerful tool that allows to compute derivatives not only of mathematical expressions but also of functions that are given as a computer program. [more]

Double Feature: Towards attosecond and femtosecond spectroscopy at extreme limits (Dr. Hanieh Fattahi)

Towards attosecond and femtosecond spectroscopy at extreme limits
This talk is devoted to modern methods for attosecond and femtosecond laser spectroscopy, with the special focus on applications that require extreme spatial resolution. [more]

Double Feature: High Precision Direct Frequency Comb Spectroscopy in UV (M.Sc. Alexey Grinin)

High Precision Direct Frequency Comb Spectroscopy in UV
In the last two decades frequency combs became an essential tool for spectroscopyexperiments around the world, allowing for simple and convenient referencing of laserswith dierent wavelengths to each other and to radio frequency standards [1]. A numberof other interesting applications in applied spectroscopy, astronomy, quantum informationand other elds are being investigated [2, 3]. [more]

Exploring matter-wave emission phenomena in optical lattices (Prof. Dominik Schneble)

Exploring matter-wave emission phenomena in optical lattices
The quantitative understanding of spontaneous emission harks back to the early days of QED, when in 1930 Weisskopf and Wigner, using Dirac's radiation theory, calculated the transition rate of an excited atom undergoing radiative decay. Their model, which describes the emission of a photon through coherent coupling of the atom's transition dipole moment to the continuum of vacuum modes, reflects the view that spontaneous emission into free space, driven by vacuum fluctuations, is inherently irreversible. [more]

Learning and artificial intelligence in the quantum domain (Prof. Hans Briegel)

Learning and artificial intelligence in the quantum domain
Quantum mechanics has changed the way we think about the scope and possibilities of information processing, and the foundations of computer science. [more]

Review procedures in Nature Photonics

Review procedures in Nature Photonics
Nature-branded journals (such as Nature, Nature Photonics, Nature Physics, etc.) are some of the most prestigious and important scientific publications in the world today. To maintain the quality and high impact factor of each journal, the editors rigorously select papers that provide conceptual or technological breakthrough according to stringent acceptance criteria and a unique reviewing process. [more]

Double Feature: Distillation of Single Photons based on Cavity QED (M.Sc. Severin Daiss)

Distillation of Single Photons based on Cavity QED
Custom-shaped single photons are an indispensable tool for many quantum communication applications. We distill them out of incoming optical pulses that are reflected from an atom-cavity system [1]. [more]

Double Feature: Geometry of variational manifolds and the Bose-Hubbard model (Dr. Lucas Hackl)

Geometry of variational manifolds and the Bose-Hubbard model
A key challenge in the theoretical study of quantum many body systems is to overcome the exponential growth of the Hilbert space with the system size. Many successful approaches are variational, i.e., they are based on choosing suitable families of states that capture key properties of the system. Prominent examples range from Gaussian states to matrix product states and tensor networks. [more]

From Precision Spectroscopy to Symmetry-Breaking Dynamics in Ion Coulomb Systems (PD Dr. Tanja Mehlstäubler)

From Precision Spectroscopy to Symmetry-Breaking Dynamics in Ion Coulomb Systems
Single trapped and laser-cooled ions in Paul traps allow for a high degree of control of atomic quantum systems. They are the basis for modern atomic clocks, quantum computers and quantum simulators. Our research aims to use ion Coulomb crystals, i.e. many-body systems with complex dynamics, for precision spectroscopy. This paves the way to novel optical frequency standards for applications such as relativistic geodesy and quantum simulators in which complex dynamics becomes accessible with atomic resolution. [more]

Table-top precision measurements to test fundamental physics: Measurements of the proton charge radius, the fine-structure constant and the electron electric dipole moment (Prof. Eric Hessels)

Table-top precision measurements to test fundamental physics: Measurements of the proton charge radius, the fine-structure constant and the electron electric dipole moment
Fundamental physics (including physics beyond the Standard Model) can be tested using table-top precision measurements. The talk will describe measurements of the size of the proton, the fine-structure constant and the electric dipole moment of the electron. Two recently completed measurements will be described. [more]

Non-perturbative Cavity QED (Prof. Peter Rabl)

Non-perturbative Cavity QED
In quantum optical systems the coupling between a single dipole and a single cavity mode is always much smaller than the absolute energy scales involved, which allows us to understand and model light-matter interactions in terms of well-defined atomic and photonic excitations. With recent advances in the field of circuit QED it is now possible to go beyond this well-established paradigm and enter a fully non-perturbative regime, where the coupling between a single artificial atom (e.g. a superconducting qubit) and a microwave photon exceeds the energy of the photon itself. Such conditions can be associated with an effective finestructure constant of order unity and in this talk I will give a brief introduction about the basics models and novel effects that govern the physics of light-matter interactions in this previously inaccessible regime. [more]

Optimized quantum photonics (Prof. Jelena Vuckovic)

Optimized quantum photonics
At the core of most quantum technologies, including quantum networks and quantum simulators, is the development of homogeneous, long lived qubits with excellent optical interfaces, and the development of high efficiency and robust optical interconnects for such qubits. To achieve this goal, we have been studying color centers in diamond (SiV, SnV) and silicon carbide (VSi in 4H SiC), in combination with novel fabrication techniques, and relying on the powerful and fast photonics inverse design approach that we have developed. [more]

SMT: Printing really small, really fast … … and what to do when you are at the end of your rope (Dr. Andreas Dorsel)

SMT: Printing really small, really fast … and what to do when you are at the end of your rope
This talk is intended to provide you with a solid notion of what can be achieved in nano-lithography today, what the present technical limitations are and what we consider at present fundamental boundaries of what may be possible in the future. Carl Zeiss SMT has been active in this field for more than 50 years and its history hence shows some of the technological milestones from the early beginnings of integrated circuits to present-day extreme integration allowing qualitatively new applications of micro- or rather nano-electronics. [more]

χ(2) Nanomaterials for Nonlinear Integrated Photonic Devices (Prof. Rachel Grange)

χ(2) Nanomaterials for Nonlinear Integrated Photonic Devices
Nonlinear optics is present in our daily life with many applications, e.g. light sources for microsurgery or green laser pointer. All of them use bulk materials such as glass fibres or crystals. Generating nonlinear effects from materials at the nanoscale can expand the applications to biology as imaging markers or sensors, and to optoelectronic integrated devices. However, nonlinear signals scale with the volume of a material. Therefore, finding nanostructured materials with high nonlinearities to avoid using high power and large interaction length is challenging. Here I will show several strategies to maximize nonlinear optical signals in nano-oxides with noncentrosymmetric crystalline structure and semiconductors. I will demonstrate how we enhance second-harmonic generation (SHG) by using the scattering properties of individual barium titanate (BaTiO3) nanoparticles1, and AlGaAs standing nanodisks2. Our results suggest that a strong increase of the SHG signal can be obtained without using plasmonics or hybrid nanostructures3 [more]

Quantum fluids of light in semiconductor lattices (Prof. Jacqueline Bloch)

Quantum fluids of light in semiconductor lattices
When confining photons in semiconductor lattices, it is possible to deeply modify their physical properties. Photons can behave as finite or even infinite mass particles, photons inherit topological properties and propagate along edge states without back scattering, photons can become superfluid and behave as interacting particles. These are just a few examples of properties that can be imprinted into fluids of light in semiconductor lattices. Such manipulation of light presents not only potential for applications in photonics, but is a great promise for fundamental studies. [more]

Connecting the Resource Theories of Purity and Coherence (Prof. Dagmar Bruss)

Connecting the Resource Theories of Purity and Coherence
The resource theory of quantum coherence studies the off-diagonal elements of a density matrix in a distinguished basis, whereas the resource theory of purity studies all deviations from the maximally mixed state. A direct connection between the two resource theories is established by identifying purity as the maximal coherence which is achievable by unitary operations. The states that saturate this maximum form a family of maximally coherent mixed states. Furthermore, purity bounds the maximal amount of entanglement and discord that can be generated by unitary operations, thus demonstrating that purity is the most elementary resource for quantum information processing. [more]

High Harmonic Generation Interferometry (Prof. Nirit Dudovich)

High Harmonic Generation Interferometry
Attosecond science is a young field of research that has rapidly evolved over the past decade. The progress in this field opened a door into a new area of research that allows one to observe multi-electron dynamics in in atoms, molecules and solids. One of the most exciting advances in atto-science is high harmonic generation (HHG) spectroscopy. It allows one to combine sub-Angstrom spatial with attosecond temporal resolution, holding the potential of resolving the structure of electronic wavefunctions as they evolve in time. [more]

Surface enhanced coherent Raman scattering (Prof. Eric Potma)

Surface enhanced coherent Raman scattering
Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a popular technique that makes it possible to boost the otherwise weak Raman effect to levels that allow single molecule detection. A coherent, nonlinear equivalent of single molecules SERS is highly attractive, because it would allow the use single vibrational quantum oscillators with a narrow line width for a host of interesting applications. The translation of SERS into the domain of coherent Raman spectroscopy (CRS) has, however, not been trivial. This presentation zooms into some of the recent accomplishments in this area, highlights single molecule CRS experiments and discusses the possibilities of performing single vibrational oscillator measurements without the use of nanoscale plasmonic antennae. [more]

Quantum Logic Spectroscopy with Trapped Ions (Prof. Dr. Dietrich Leibfried)

Quantum Logic Spectroscopy with Trapped Ions
Quantum logic spectroscopy uses the quantized motion of trapped charged particles as a means to indirectly control charged quantum systems and gain information on their properties. A highly controllable atomic "logic" ion indirectly helps to manipulate the system under study and to report information back to the experimenter. This allows for precise quantum control of charged systems that are hard or impossible to directly control with light fields, such as atomic ions without convenient laser cooling transitions, molecular ions or charged elementary particles such as the proton. This talk will introduce the basic ideas behind quantum logic spectroscopy and illustrate its power based on example experiments in the NIST Ion Storage Group. [more]

Synthesizing Light: New Tools, Wavelengths and Opportunities (Prof. Dr. Scott Diddams)

Synthesizing Light: New Tools, Wavelengths and Opportunities
Frequency synthesis is ubiquitous in all aspects of our modern technological society, with examples being found in wide ranging applications from computing, communications and navigation systems to sensors and scientific instrumentation. Historically, the generation and precise control of electromagnetic radiation has been confined to the radio frequency and microwave domains. How­ever, optical frequency combs, first introduced by Prof. T.W. Hänsch, dramatically expand the synthesis bandwidth to cover the entire terahertz and optical domains as well. [more]

Topology in finite‐temperature and non‐equilibrium systems (Prof. Michael Fleischhauer)

Topology in finite‐temperature and non‐equilibrium systems
Topological states of matter have fascinated physicists since a long time due to the exotic properties of elementary excitations and the topological protection of edge states and currents. The notion of topology is ususally associated with ground states of (many-body)-Hamiltonians. [more]

Cold and ultracold molecules for quantum information and particle physics (Prof. John Doyle)

Cold and ultracold molecules for quantum information and particle physics
Wide-ranging scientic applications have created growing interest in ultracold molecules. Heteronuclear bialkali molecules, assembled from ultracold atoms, enabled the study of long-range dipolar interactions and quantum-state-controlled chemistry, and recently have been brought to quantum degeneracy. Assembling such molecules one-byone in tweezers for quantum information applications is one exciting avenue of this work. [more]

Double Feature: One-dimensional superradiant photonic states for quantum information (Dr. Marti Perarnau)

One-dimensional superradiant photonic states for quantum information
Photonic states with large and fixed photon numbers, such as Fock states, are crucial in quantum technologies but remain an experimentally elusive resource. A potentially simple, deterministic and scalable way to generate these states consists of fully exciting N quantum emitters equally coupled to a common photonic reservoir, which leads to a collective decay known as Dicke superradiance. The emitted N-photon wavepacket turns out to be a highly entangled multimode state, which makes its characterisation challenging, and its potential for quantum information an open question. In this talk, after reviewing the basics of superradiance and 1d waveguide QED, I will show that Dicke superradiant states have a high quantum Fisher information (achieving Heisenberg scaling), implying they enable quantum-enhanced metrology. Then, I will discuss possible effective descriptions of such states, which would allow a clean understanding of their properties. [more]

Double Feature: Interacting polar molecules in a spin-decoupled magic trap (Frauke Seeßelberg)

Interacting polar molecules in a spin-decoupled magic trap
Interacting particles with long coherence times are a key ingredient for entanglement generation and quantum engineering. Ultracold polar molecules are promising candidates due to their strong and tunable dipolar interactions as well as their long single-particle lifetimes. They possess many internal degrees of freedom that can be utilized in quantum simulation. Particularly appealing are superpositions of rotational states because they readily give rise to strong, long-range dipolar interactions. In this talk I will introduce a novel trapping technique for rotating polar molecules, nuclear spin-decoupled magic trapping. With this technique we achieve very low single-particle dephasing rates for our fermionic NaK molecules. These allow us not only to obtain record rotational spin coherence times but also to directly observe dipolar interactions in the molecular gas. This paves the way for fascinating future experiments with ultracold polar molecules. [more]

Double Feature: The ATLAS laser: from Terrawatt to Petawatt and from MPQ to CALA (Prof. Stefan Karsch)

The ATLAS laser: from Terrawatt to Petawatt and from MPQ to CALA
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Double Feature: Creating optical Schrödinger‐cat states with a cavity (Bastian Hacker)

Schrödinger's famous cat Gedankenexperiment investigates how the laws of quantum mechanics extend into the macroscopic realm. An experimentally accessible model system in quantum optics is the superposition of two well-distinguishable coherent states - a so-called "cat state" - with a tunable degree of macroscopicity. Applying a high-finesse cavity we demonstrate a new method to create flying optical cat states. They are entangled to a single trapped atom, much like Schrödinger's original cat. I show control over various degrees of freedom of the cat states, which is a great asset for their potential application to continuous-variable quantum computing. [more]

Quantum optics using atomic arrays (Prof. Dr. Darrick Chang)

Ensembles of atoms or other quantum emitters are envisioned to be an important component of quantum applications, ranging from quantum memories for light to photon-photon gates to metrology. It has historically been an outstanding challenge to exactly solve for the quantum dynamics of an optical field as it propagates through and interacts with an ensemble. The standard axiomatic approach is to use the one-dimensional Maxwell-Bloch equations, which assume that excited atoms emit independently into unwanted directions. This ignores the wave interference of the emitted light, which depends on correlations between the atoms. [more]

Double Feature: Bridging machine learning and quantum physics with tensor networks (Dr. Ivan Glasser)

Finding efficient representations of high-dimensional functions is a central problem in both machine learning and the simulation of quantum many-body systems. In this talk I will discuss the relationship between these two fields of research using the framework of tensor networks, which have been invented independently in physics and computer science. [more]

Superfluidity and Bose-Einstein Condensation Coherence (Prof. Dr. Lev Pitaevskii)

In 1938 Petr Kapitza, investigating properties of the low temperature phase of liquid 4He, discovered that viscosity of the liquid is more than 104 times smaller, than that of all known liquids. Kapitza concluded, that the liquid is in a new state of matter, a “superfluid”, which to some extend analogous to superconductors. Landau (1941) explained the phenomenon and predicted several its unusual properties. It occurs, that in a superfluid in any point of space at finite temperatures simultaneously exists two flow with different velocities. One is “normal” and has finite viscosity and the second one is “superfluid”, which viscosity is exactly zero. This results in presence of two type of sound, which were discovered experimentally in 1946. [more]

Label-free chemical imaging: Unveiling hidden signatures for molecule-based diagnosis and treatment (Prof. Ji-Xin Cheng)

Optical microscopy has been a fundamental tool to life science and materials science since its invention in the 17th century. [more]

Deciphering complex quantum systems (Prof. A. Buchleitner)

Not many ingredients are needed for a quantum system to turn complex, with the helium atom as the arguably most elementary example. [more]

Rotating molecules and fundamental constants (Prof. S. Schiller)

Molecules provide exciting opportunities for precision measurements - significantly extending those offered by atoms. [more]

Imaging in Biology and Biomedicine (Prof.Steven Chu)

In recent years, new imaging probes such as green fluorescent proteins, optical tweezers, single molecule FRET and super-resolution microscopy are having a profound impact on biological sciences. [more]

Precision spectroscopic measurements in H2, H2+, He2 and He2+(Prof. Merkt)

Few-electron molecules represent attractive systems for precision spectroscopy because their properties can be calculated with extraordinary accuracy by ab initio quantum-chemical methods. [more]

Combs and isotopic customization for trapped ion quantum computing (Prof. W. Campbell)

Since ions bind their valence electrons tightly, the light needed to work with them is often in the UV part of the spectrum, where laser light is difficult to produce and manage. [more]

Molecular spectroscopy with laser frequency combs (Dr. N. Picqué)

Almost twenty years ago, optical frequency combs – spectra made of millions of phase-coherent evenly spaced narrow laser lines – have revolutionized time and frequency measurements. [more]

How to count one photon and get a result of 1000 (Prof. A. Steinberg)

I will present our recent experimental work using electromagnetically induced transparency in laser-cooled atoms to measure the nonlinear phase shift created by a single post-selected photon, and its enhancement through "weak-value amplification." [more]

Correlations of a quantum system in real and momentum space (Prof. S. Jochim)

The properties of a many body system are encoded in correlations between the particles. [more]

Direct observation of incommensurate magnetism in Hubbard chains (M.Sc. J. Koepsell) / Ultrafast thin-disk oscillators at 1 µm and 2 µm wavelengths (Dr. O. Pronin)

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Precision spectroscopy of the 2S-4P transition in atomic hydrogen (L. Maisenbacher) / Does gravity have to be quantum? (Dr. A. Tilloy)

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Laser Chemistry Scientific Colloquium

Colloquium on the Occasion of Prof. Dr. Karl-Ludwig Kompa's 80th Birthday! Following please find detailed information: [more]

Coupling spin and orbital dynamics with quantum light (Prof. D. Stamper-Kurn)

A trapped atomic gas within an optical resonator serves as both a mechanical oscillator and a spin oscillator, represented by the collective degrees of freedom of the gas. [more]

Label-free tissue classification by FTIR- and QCL-based IR-imaging (Prof. K. Gerwert)

Infrared imaging in combination with bioinformatics is an emerging tool for label-free, non-invasive annotation of tissue, cells, and body fluids. [more]

Connecting quantum systems through optimized photonics (Prof. J. Vuckovic)

Semiconductor quantum dot in cavity has been the workhorse of solid-state quantum optics, enabling many exciting demonstrations such as photon blockade, and some of the best quantum light sources and spin-photon interfaces. [more]

Ultrafast Transmission Electron Microscopy with High-coherence Electron Beams (Prof. C. Ropers)

Ultrafast Transmission Electron Microscopy (UTEM) is a powerful technique to study structural and electronic dynamics on the nanoscale. [more]

Atomic giants in a new light: Emerging photon interactions from highly excited Rydberg atoms (Prof. T. Pohl)

The combination of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and strongly interacting Rydberg states in cold atomic gases has opened up new routes towards achieving few-photon optical nonlinearities. [more]

Quantum many-body dynamics under continuous observation (Prof. M. Ueda)

Quantum gas microscopy has revolutionalized our approach to quantum many-body systems where atoms trapped in an optical lattice can be observed in real time at the single-particle level. [more]

Experimental many-body physics using arrays of individual Rydberg atoms (Prof. A. Browaeys)

This talk will present our on-going effort to control the dipole-dipole interaction between cold Rydberg atoms in order to implement spin Hamiltonians that may be useful for quantum simulation of condensed matter problems. [more]

Prospects for a quantum electro-optic interface via micromechanical motion (Prof. C. Regal)

Superconducting qubits have become a powerful resource for the creation of arbitrary quantum states. [more]

Making quantum liquids from quantum gases (Prof. L. Tarruell)

Self-bound states appear in contexts as diverse as solitary waves in channels, optical solitons in non-linear media and liquid droplets. [more]

Quantum phase transition between topological orders induced by pairing fermions (Dr. A. Sterdyniak) / Exploring novel routes to early cancer detection: Molecular fingerprinting by field-resolved spectroscopy (Dr. M. Zigman & Dr. I. Pupeza)

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A Photon-Photon Quantum Gate Based on Rydberg Polaritons (S. Schmidt-Eberle) / Coherent spin dynamics in Rydberg-dressed Ising chains (J. Zeiher)

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An overview of recent results for the non-equilibrium dynamics of isolated 1D models (Prof. P. Calabrese)

Since the early days of quantum mechanics, understanding how statistical ensembles arise from the unitary time evolution of an isolated quantum system has been a fascinating problem. [more]

Magnonic macroscopic quantum states and supercurrents (Prof. B. Hillebrands)

Finding new ways for fast and efficient processing and transfer of data is one the most challenging tasks nowadays. [more]

Optically Trapping and Isolating Ions for Seconds (Prof. T. Schätz)

Isolating ions and atoms from the environment is essential for experiments, especially if we aim to study quantum effects. [more]

Convex Optimization Methods for Image-based 3D Reconstruction (Prof. D. Cremers)

The reconstruction of the 3D world from a moving camera is among the central challenges in computer vision. [more]

An Einsteinian Analogy Sheds Light on Light (Prof. D. Hofstadter)

Where does deep insight in physics come from? For those who view physics as a highly rational science grounded in strict mathematical deduction, it is tempting to think that great physics comes only from the purest and most precise of reasoning, following ironclad laws of thought that compel the clear mind completely rigidly. [more]

Status and prospects of fiber lasers and amplifiers (Prof. A. Tünnermann)

In the past years rare-earth-doped fiber lasers have emerged as an attractive and power scalable solid-state laser concept due to the outstanding thermo-optical properties of an actively doped fiber. [more]

Brillouin-based light storage in a photonic circuit (Dr. B. Stiller)

Brillouin scattering is a fundamental nonlinear opto-acoustic interaction present in optical fibres and other waveguides with important implications in fields ranging from modern telecommunication networks, signal processing and smart optical sensors. [more]

Subcycle quantum physics (Prof. R. Huber)

Atomically strong light pulses in the terahertz window of the electromagnetic spectrum form a unique toolbox to trace and control electronic and ionic quantum motion faster than a cycle of light. [more]

Fundamental Physics with (weird) Magnetic Resonance (Prof. D. Budker)

I will discuss the ongoing experiments (CASPEr and GNOME) searching for ultralight galactic dark matter using magnetic-resonance techniques and a new approach to measuring parity violation in chiral molecular systems. [more]

Optical Atomic Clocks: From Laboratory Experiments to International Time Keeping (Dr. H. Margolis)

Optical atomic clocks based on laser-cooled atoms or single trapped ions have made rapid progress over the past few years, with the most advanced now having reached levels of stability and uncertainty that significantly surpass the performance of caesium primary frequency standards. [more]

Are we quantum computers, or merely clever robots? (Prof. M. Fisher)

Of course quantum information processing is not possible in the warm wet brain. There is, however, one \loophole" - oered by nuclear spins - that must be closed before acknowledging that we are merely clever robots. [more]

Collective quantum dynamics: from information scrambling to emergent hydrodynamics (Prof. M. Knap)

Generic, clean quantum many-body systems approach a thermal equilibrium after a long time evolution. In order to reach a global equilibrium, conserved quantities have to be transported across the whole system which is a rather slow process governed by diffusion. [more]

Quantum Measurements on Trapped Ions (Prof. J. Home)

Measurement as defined in quantum physics rarely corresponds to what is performed in the laboratory. [more]

Manipulating nuclei with laser light: the quest of Thorium-229 (Prof. T. Schumm)

The radio isotope Thorium-229 is expected to present a remarkably low-energy excited (isomer) state of the nucleus which is expected around 7.8(5) eV. [more]

Quantum optics with trapped ions – from single ion heat engines to ions in vortex laser fields (Prof. F. Schmidt-Kaler)

Trapped single ions and ion crystal exhibit excellent control of the internal spin– and the external motional-degree of freedom. Multi-particle quantum entangled states are generated with high fidelity in view of a future quantum computer with trapped ions. [more]

The Alchemy of Vacuum - Hybridizing Light and Matter (Prof. T. Ebbesen)

Strong coupling of light and matter can give rise to a multitude of exciting physical effects through the formation of hybrid light-matter states. [more]

First principles modeling of Light-Matter interactions within QED-TDDFT: From Weak to Strong Coupling in QED-Chemistry and Materials (Prof. A. Rubio)

Computer simulations that predict the light-induced change in the physical and chemical properties of complex systems, molecules, nanostructures and solids usually ignore the quantum nature of light. [more]

Genome editing and the CRISPR/cas revolution (Prof. K. Förstemann)

I will present the origins of the prokaryotic (i.e. bacteria and archaea) CRISPR/cas systems, then describe how one particular variant (Streptococcus pyogenes cas9) has been adapted and optimized for use in eukaryotic cells. [more]

Spin resolved microscopy of doped Hubbard chains (T. Hilker) / Testing Bell's inequality with atoms entangled over a large distance (Dr. W. Rosenfeld)

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Potential Energy Surfaces and Berry Phases beyond the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation (Prof. E. Gross)

The starting point of essentially all modern electronic-structure techniques is the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. It not only makes calculations feasible, it also provides us with an intuitive picture of chemical reactions. [more]

Schrödinger Cat States and Quantum Error Correction for Bosonic Modes (Prof. S. Girvin)

Recent remarkable experimental progress in ‘circuit QED’ now allows realization of extremely strong dispersive coupling between superconducting qubits and microwave photons in resonators. [more]

Triggering Molecular Processes with Light (Prof. J. Wachtveitl)

Molecular systems that can be remotely controlled by light are gaining increasing importance in bio-sciences. High spatial and temporal precision is achievable with short laser pulses and in principle there are three approaches for light regulation. [more]

Field-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy (Dr. I. Pupeza) / A cavity-mediated photon-photon quantum gate (S. Welte)

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Chiral Quantum Optics (Prof. A. Rauschenbeutel)

Controlling the interaction of light and matter is the basis for diverse applications ranging from light technology to quantum information processing. Nowadays, many of these applications are based on nanophotonic structures. [more]

3D Printing of Complex Microoptics – Merging with Plasmonic Nanooptics (Prof. H. Giessen)

Microoptics has a plethora of applications, ranging from miniature endoscopes in hospitals to beam shaping or imaging. 3D printing with a femtosecond laser and two-photon polymerization allows for manufacturing optical elements directly after their design with an optical CAD program on a computer, with a resolution better than 100 nm and a high accuracy and reproducibility. [more]

Searching for dark fields with atom interferometry (Prof. P. Hamilton)

One of the great mysteries of modern physics is the identity of nearly 95% of our Universe, which has been labelled as dark matter and dark energy. The high precision of atom interferometry gives a new way to explore this mystery. [more]

Quantum Nano-Optics with Organic Molecules and Rare Earth Ions (Prof. V. Sadoghdar)

I plan to start this presentation with an overview of our work over the past decade on the efficient coupling of light and single quantum emitters, leading to the single-photon communication of two individual molecules at long distances [1]. [more]

Micro Cavity-based Spectroscopy of individual Nano Particles (M. Mader) / PEPS and local (gauge) symmetries (Dr. E. Zohar)

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MAGIC with Trapped Ions (Prof. C. Wunderlich)

Trapped atomic ions are a well-advanced physical system for quantum information science (QIS). QIS is meant to encompass the quest for a specialized, or even universal processor for quantum information, the investigation of fundamental questions of quantum physics, as well as applications of techniques emanating from these investigations to other fields, for example, precision spectroscopy and sensing. [more]

Thermodynamics and order beyond equilibrium - the physics of periodically driven quantum systems (Prof. R. Moessner)

The field of thermodynamics is one of the crown jewels of classical physics. However, only comparatively recently, due to the advent of experiments in cold atomic systems with long coherence times, has our detailed understanding of its connection to quantum statistical mechanics seen remarkable progress. [more]

Driven-dissipative Bose-Einstein condensates (Prof. H. Ott)

Ultracold quantum gases are usually well isolated from the environment. This allows for the study of ground state properties and unitary dynamics of many-body quantum systems under almost ideal conditions. [more]

Quantum plasmonics, polaritons and strong light-matter interactions with 2d material heterostructures (Prof. F. Koppens)

The controlof polaritons are at the heart of nano-photonics and opto-electronics. Two-dimensional materials have emerged as a toolbox for in-situ control of awide range of polaritons: plasmons, excitons and phonons. [more]

Coherence of a Bose-Einstein Condensed Light Field (Prof. M. Weitz)

Bose-Einstein condensation has been observed with cold atomic gases, quasiparticles in solid state systems as polaritons, and more recently with photons in a dye-filled optical microcavity. [more]

LIGO’s detection of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger (Dr. P. Fritschel)

On September 14, 2015 the two LIGO gravitational wave detectors in Hanford, Washington and Livingston, Louisiana registered a coincident signal conforming to the gravitational waveform expected from the merger of two massive, compact objects. [more]

The Quantum Way of Sensing (Prof. J. Wrachtrup)

The precision of any measurement is limited by quantum mechanics. Yet, in practice, hardly any measurement reaches its quantum limits. This is because dephasing typically influences measurement device, rendering their sensitivity below its physical limits. [more]

Wavefront Shaping and the Control of Scattering (Prof. Y. Silberberg)

The propagation of light in inhomogeneous media, and in particular in biological tissues, results in wavefront distortions and scattering which impose major limitations in many applications, from microscopy to nanosurgery. [more]

A Thouless Quantum Pump with Ultracold Bosonic Atoms in an Optical Superlattice (M. Lohse) / Direct cooling of polar molecules to submillikelvin temperatures (A. Prehn)

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Ultrafast dynamics of spins and spin currents: magnetic storage and spintronic THz emitter (Prof. M. Münzenberg)

Magnetization manipulation is an indispensable tool for both basic and applied research. I will discuss some of the knobs to tune dynamics at ultrafast time scales. [more]

Quantum metrology with Bose Einstein Condensates (Prof. M. Oberthaler)

One aspect of metrology, the science of measurement, is the exploration of the ultimate precision limit. It is known for quite some time that the new possibilities in quantum mechanics allow the surpassing of the ultimate classical precision limit given by counting statistics. [more]

How to catch, and detect, a photon (Prof. W. Tittel)

Future quantum networks will allow the secure distribution of encryption keys over extended distances, blind quantum computing, and networked quantum computers and atomic clocks. [more]

Aspects of Topological Photonics (Prof. M. Rechtsman)

The beauty of topological materials is that their electronic properties can be essentially described by integer topological invariants associated with their band structures.  [more]

Synthetic gauge fields in synthetic dimensions: Magnetic crystals and chiral edge modes (Prof. R. Fazio)

Synthetic ladders realized with one-dimensional alkaline-earth(-like) fermionic gases and subject to a gauge field represent a promising environment for the investigation of quantum Hall physics with ultracold atoms. [more]

Metasurfaces for Wavefront Shaping: High-performance Planar Photonic Components beyond Refractive and Diffractive Optics (Prof. F. Capasso)

The design of fundamental optical components such as lenses, gratings, and holograms has remained essentially unchanged for at least fifty years, relying on textbook refractive and diffractive optics. [more]

The device-independent scenario: a quantum information theory with black boxes (Prof. A. Acin)

Device-independent quantum information processing represents a new framework for quantum information applications in which devices are just seen as quantum black boxes processing classical information. [more]

Electro-optic sampling of near-infrared waves, and attosecond polarization spectroscopy (Dr. Karpowicz) / Laser spectroscopy of pionic and antiprotonic helium atoms (Dr. Hori)

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Entanglement of Complex Quantum Systems (Prof. N. Schuch)

Complex quantum systems exhibit a variety of unconventional phenomena, such as protected quantized edge currents or excitations with non-trivial statistics.  [more]

Linking high harmonics from solids and gases (Prof. P. Corkum)

Attosecond pulses are generated by electrons that are extracted from a quantum system by an intense light pulse and travel through the continuum. [more]

Microscopy 2.0 (Prof. S. Chu)

There has been an explosion of new imaging technologies in biology that include photo-activation localization microscopy (PALM), stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM), and stimulated emission depletion (STED), structured illumination, and adaptive optics are revolutionizing optical microscopy. [more]

Topological photonics with twisted resonators and braided circuits (Prof. J. Simon)

I will present recent work realizing topological phases of photons. [more]

It’s All About Water (Prof. P. Hamm)

Ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy, and in particular its extension to multidimensional techniques, can tell us a lot about solvation dynamics, structural dynamics and energy transfer processes of solution phase molecular systems. [more]

Highly efficient organic devices (Prof. K. Leo)

Organic semiconductors with conjugated electron system are currently intensively investigated for (opto-) electronics. [more]

Hundred years after general relativity: Was Einstein right? (Prof. M. Kramer)

Hundred years after General Relativity:  Was Einstein right? [more]

Nuclear structure from light muonic atoms (Dr. B. Franke) / LWFA-driven hard X-ray sources at LEX and CALA (K. Khrennikov)

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Quantum mechanics at macroscopic scales (Prof. M. Kasevich)

Quantum mechanics is a foundation of physics, chemistry and materials science.  Still, there is an ongoing debate about the emergence of the classical, macroscopic world from the well-understood microscopic world of quantum mechanics.  [more]

New Perspectives on Quantum Simulation with Alkaline-Earth Atoms (Prof. A. Rey)

Understanding the behavior of interacting electrons in solids or liquids is at the heart of modern quantum science and necessary for technological advances. [more]

A microscope for Fermi gases (A. Omran) / Methods to observe topological properties in a fermionic ladder model (Dr. M. Burrello)

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Quantum-information processing with solid-state single-photon sources (Prof. P. Lodahl)

We review the recent experimental progress on the use of quantum dots coupled to photonic-crystal waveguides [1]. [more]

Simplex sigillum veri: Single atoms may settle quantum queries (Prof. P. Toschek)

Modern atomism evolved on the basis of observations of matter’s macroscopic features. [more]

Sub-Cycle Quantum Physics (Prof. A. Leitenstorfer)

Recent progress in establishing an extreme time-domain approach to condensed-matter physics and quantum optics is presented. [more]

Physics beyond the standard model from molecules (Prof. W. Ubachs)

The spectrum of molecular hydrogen H2 can be measured in the laboratory to very high precision using advanced laser and molecular beam techniques, as well as frequency-comb based calibration. [more]

Novel ultra-fast and nanoscale opto-electronic phenomena in 2d material heterostructures (Prof. F. Koppens)

The optoelectronic response of two-dimensional (2D) crystals, such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), is currently subject to intensive investigations.  [more]

(Un-)decidable problems in quantum theory (Prof. M. Wolf)

In the talk I will review recent results on the (un-)decidability of problems in quantum many-body physics and quantum information theory. [more]

Many-Body Localisation of Fermions in a 1D Quasi-Random Disordered Lattice (M. Schreiber) / Photon Transmissions in Rydberg-EIT Systems by Multi-Photon Scattering Theory (Dr. T. Shi)

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Diversity, discrimination, and respect at work (Prof. S. Giessner)

This talk will give a short overview of the latest insights into the promises and pitfalls of a diverse workforce on employee outcomes like respectful interactions at work, cooperation, creativity and conflict at work. [more]

Attosecond ionization time delays (Prof. U. Keller)

In a recent workshop we tried to answer the very interesting question: “Attosecond science – what will it take to observe processes ‘in real time’?” [1]. [more]

Quantum dynamics in spatially resolved two-atom cavity QED (A. Neuzner) / Solid State Attosecond Dynamics (Dr. M. Schultze)

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The enigma of optical momentum (Prof. S. Barnett)

It is more than 100 years since the battle began to determine the correct form of the momentum of light inside a material medium. [more]
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