ERC Starting Grant für Christof Weitenberg

7 August 2018

Dr. Christof Weitenberg, Wissenschaftler am Institut für Laserphysik der Universität Hamburg, erhält einen mit rund 1,5 Millionen Euro dotierten „ERC Starting Grant“ des Europäischen Forschungsrats ERC (European Research Council). In dem neuen Forschungsprojekt „Engineering and exploring anyonic quantum gases“, kurz ANYON, wird er exotische Teilchen untersuchen, die nur in speziellen Systemen vorkommen und noch wenig erforscht sind: die Anyonen.

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A cloud of ultracold atoms can cool and completely stop an ion excited by a laser beam. Due to its charge, it polarizes the Bose-Einstein condensate.

Photo: L. Oghittu / Ph. Wessels-Staarmann

05.04.2024|ILP Sengstock

Cooling dynamics of a free ion in a Bose-Einstein condensate

We investigate the dynamics of an ion moving through a homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) after an initial momentum is imparted. For this, we derive a master equation in the weak-coupling limit and Lamb-Dicke approximation for the reduced density matrix of the ion. We study the time...

Photo: UHH/Großmann

26.01.2021|ILP Sengstock

Ultrafast Electron Cooling in an Expanding Ultracold Plasma

Plasma dynamics critically depends on density and temperature, thus well-controlled experimental realizations are essential benchmarks for theoretical models. The formation of an ultracold plasma can be triggered by ionizing a tunable number of atoms in a micrometer-sized volume of a 87Rb...