Research Highlights5 January 2026|IQP SchmelcherManipulation of quantum states in cold gases through statistical transmutationPhoto: AG SchmelcherA team from the University of Hamburg and American University in Washington has demonstrated that specific zero-energy states in cold atoms can be...5 January 2026|IQP SchmelcherSolving the travelling salesman problem using Bloch sphere encodingPhoto: AG SchmelcherThe travelling salesman problem (TSP) is a combinatorial optimization problem and perhaps one of the most popular as well. Traditionally, the problem...4 July 2025|IQP SchmelcherCrossover from attractive to repulsive induced interactions and bound states of two distinguishable Bose polaronsPhoto: AG SchmelcherWhen a single impurity atom is immersed in an ultracold environment, the interaction between the impurity and the surrounding medium excites the...10 June 2025|IQP SchmelcherHigh Precision Spectroscopy of Trilobite Rydberg MoleculesPhoto: AG SchmelcherWe are happy to announce that our latest work, together with collaborators in Dresden and Kaiserslautern, has achieved a milestone in probing...5 November 2024|IQP SchmelcherInteger programming using a single atomPhoto: AG SchmelcherInteger programming (IP) is a variable assignment problem commonly used for formulating industry- related optimization problems. Generally, any...10 September 2024|IQP SchmelcherPhysicists employ ion microscope to observe unusual collisions in slow-motionPhoto: AG SchmelcherWith the help of a novel ion microscope experiment, researchers at the Universities of Stuttgart and Hamburg have imaged collisions between particles...22 January 2024|IQP SchmelcherDiscovery of Peregrine solitons in Bose-Einstein condensatesPhoto: AG SchmelcherOff shore, deep-water wave phenomena can give rise to extreme wave events known as rogue waves -- monstrous walls of water that appear and disappear...20 November 2023|IQP SchmelcherQuantum Phases from Competing Van der Waals and Dipole-Dipole Interactions of Rydberg AtomsPhoto: AG SchmelcherThe interplay of short- and long-range interactions are responsible for diverse phenomena having significance across various domains in science. For...19 September 2023|IQP SchmelcherExploring disordered quantum spin modelsPhoto: AG SchmelcherMany phenomena that we find in nature are a result of the collective behaviour of constituent particles interacting with each other at the quantum...8 May 2023|IQP SchmelcherHidden Symmetries in Wave SystemsOpposite to the well-known manifest geometrical symmetries of a device latent symmetries are hidden symmetries. They become accessible only by...Show all news
