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

10.12.2019
 

"Improved fullerene polarizability measurements" are now published at Phys. Rev. Res.

27.09.2019
 

The "Neutralization of Insulin by Photocleavage in High Vacuum " is published in Chem. Commun.

25.09.2019
 

Our expeirments on "Quantum superposition of molecules beyond 25 kDa" is published in Nature Physics!

02.05.2019
 

A pathfinder project on Quantum Detectors for Molecular Physics, together with Single Quantum from Delft, started!

10.04.2019
 

We have a new article on "Silicon microcavity arrays with open access and a finesse of half a million" in Light: Science & Applications!

03.04.2019
 

... for successfully completing each of their Master-Theses with distinction!