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We are delighted to welcome Dr. Damien Bloch as a postdoctoral researcher in our group. After completing his PhD at  University Paris-Saclay under Antione Broawaeys, Damien joins our Cavity experiment.

For this year's group trip we went canoeing on the March the border river between Austria and Slovakia. 

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There might also have been the odd water pistol fight. 

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The trip was rounded of by dinner together and ice cream!

We say Goodbye our Tom Schubert, Master student from the Lithium Lab and Benjamin Czasch, Bachelor student in the Cavity Lab. 

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Both did an amazing job working on the projection of holographic lattice potentials and characterization of the cavity lock respectively. 

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Best of luck for their future endeavours!

We are delighted to welcome Constanze Vogel to out group. She joins the Lithium Team where she will work on the Tweezer setup.

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Learn more about the Lithium experiment here.

Big news! Our group will be moving to the Institute of Science and Technology Austria right outside of Vienna in Klosterneuburg. 

Check out artcile from ISTA about Julian's arrival interview with Julian  about the central role of quantum mechanics in nature, how ultracold temperatures magnify atomic interactions, and what this has to do with board games.

We are excited for this new chapter in our group's young history!

We are delighted to welcome Johannes Berger to our group. He joins the Fiber Lab as a Master student and where he will work on manufacturing our Fiber Fabry-Perot Cavities.

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Learn more about the Fiber Lab here. 

For this years group hike we went to the lovely Ennser Hütte in Großramming in the state of Upper Austria.

Heavy rain and cold temperatures in the week before meant there was almost half a meter of snow near the summit, which made for an adventourus trip and gave the opportunity to practice snowball throwing for the winter. The hike was rounded off by a journal club as well as drinks and games in the evening.

We are delighted to welcome Michael Stummer as a project student in our group. He will assist the Cavity Team by benchmarking performance parameters of our Microscope.

Learn more about the Cavity experiment here. 

Congratulations to Constantin Grave, who was a project and master thesis student in our group from April 2023 to April 2024. He  successfully defended his thesis, "Towards the fabrication of fiber-based Fabry-Perot cavities".

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Read his thesis here.

8 months after the start of the experiment, the Lithium lab has achieved an important milestone. They have closed vacuum chamber and achieved a pressure of < 2xE-11 mbar.

Next stop: Trapping atoms!

Find out more about the Lithium Lab here

We are delighted to welcome Saumya Shah to our team.

After completing his M.Sc. in Quantum Science and Technology at Technical University Munich and Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich, he will join the Lithium Lab as a new PhD student.

After another closely fought competition, we sadly place 7th out of 9 teams at this year's ATI food festival. 

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Despite this placing we still had an absolute blast again. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the festival and helped make it a great event. 

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We will be back stronger next year!

Huge congratulations to Rodrigo Rosa-Medina, PostDoc in our Lithium Lab! He has been awarded the prestigious ETH Medal for his outstanding doctoral thesis "Exploring Coherent and Dissipative Spin Dynamics with Superradiant Quantum Gases" — an honor given to fewer than 8% of ETH Zurich dissertations.

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Rodrigo’s research uncovered novel dissipative phase transitions, superradiant tunneling in synthetic lattices, and nonclassical atom pair generation from vacuum fluctuations — all using Bose-Einstein condensates in a high-finesse optical cavity.

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Now he is leading the charge in our Lithium Lab.

Huge congratulations to Rodrigo Rosa-Medina PostDoc in our Lithium Lab. He has received the prestigious Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF Postdoc.Mobility and Quantum Science Austria PostDoc fellowships for his innovative proposal "Fermionic Fractional Quantum Hall (FQH) Systems under the Microscope".

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Main goal of the proposal? Create the first quantum-engineered fermionic FQH system and probe their fractional excitations at a microscopic level, creating the necessary technological advacement along the way!

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Congratulations to Rodrigo. More info on our Lithium Lab page.

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We are delighted to welcome Benjamin Czasch to our group. He joins the Cavity Lab as a project student and where he will work on characterizing our cavity lock.

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Learn more about the Cavity Lab here. 

Major Milestone for the Cavity Lab! They managed to trap single atoms in tweezers and generate tweezer arrays.

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Tweezer arrays are a key component of the experiment we are building the Cavity lab. The goal is to couple an array of tweezer-trapped atoms to a high-finesse Fabry-Perot Fiber Cavity to create a flexible quantum processor with programmable, non-local interactions.

Read more about the Cavity Lab here.

After a very closely fought competition, our group's team "Peach Perfect" placed third in the annual institute cooking competion. With an average score of 7.44/10 just shy of 1st and 2nd place which received a score of 7.89 and 7.65 respectively. 

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Our dishes were:

Starter: Peach, Honey and Feta Strudel by Stephan

Main: Cold Niku Dashi Ramen by Franz

Desert: Peach and Lavender tarte by Isa

Drink: Peach Bellini by Johannes

Thanks to everyone who helped out and made the event a lot of fun!

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Rodrigo Rosa-Medina as a postdoctoral researcher in our group. After completing his PhD at ETH Zurich under Tillman Esslinger, Rodrigo joins our Lithium experiment.

Learn more about Rodrigo here. 

After almost two years, we say goodbye to our PostDoc Dr. Marvin Holten.

He will take on a position as Co-Founder and Lead Developer at Copenhagen-based startup DIASENSE.

We thank Marvin very much for the great time and wish him all the best!

We are delighted to welcome Franz von Silva-Tarouca to our team.

After completing his M.Sc. in Quantum Science and Technology at Technical University Munich and Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich, he will join the Cavity Lab as a new PhD student.