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

29.03.2021
 

We welcome Julia Salapa as a master student pursuing the optical detection of biomolecules.

29.03.2021
 

We welcome Martin Mauser as a master student working on quantum tools for mass spectrometry.

22.03.2021
 

The morphology of doubly-clamped graphene nanoribbons.

22.03.2021
 

We welcome Lorenz Hummer as our new Master-Student on Cavity Cooling.

17.03.2021
 

A New Paper "Universal matter-wave interferometry as a sensor in atomic physics and physical chemistry" is published on the SPIE Photonics West -...

04.03.2021
 

Congratulations to Markus Arndt, University of Vienna, and László Erdős, IST Austria on sharing the Erwin Schrödinger Prize 2020.

This prize is...