PhD position "Exploring quantum time crystals"

1 April 2023

Photo: AG Hemmerich

We are looking for a highly motivated young scientist with a master degree in experimental AMO physics ideally with some experience in quantum optics, laser cooling, quantum gas physics, or quantum many-body physics. Laboratory experience in laser technology and electronics is advantageous.

You will take a significant role in our cavity-QED project, which aims for the realisation of the ultimate quantum regime, where ten to twenty atoms couple to a similar number of photons in an ultrahigh finesse narrow-band optical cavity. In contrast to broadband cavity setups, the polaritonic states emerging in our recoil resolved cavity consist of comparable portions of light and matter sectors with increased entanglement. In this unexplored regime, we will search for dynamical non-classical photon states, measurement backaction, and phases characterised by strong light-matter entanglement. Possible examples are time crystalline phases showing oscillating many-body quantum correlations.

We offer a 3 years position (75% TV-L E13 salary) and the perspective to grow into a leadership role in a team of postdoctoral researchers and PhD students, engaged in research, which combines the deep intellectual aspiration of non-linear quantum many-body physics with the highly relevant modern state-of-the-art technologies of photon science and quantum information.

If you are interested, please contact Prof. Andreas Hemmerich and Dr. Hans Keßler via email: hemmerich@physnet.uni-hamburg.de, hkessler@physnet.uni-hamburg.de

There are many other research projects regarding optical lattices and quantum metrology in our group. If you're interested in a PhD, Master, or Bachelor project, please contact us.
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