Author Archives: thedelocalizedchemist

While we are eagerly building up our experiment in the lab, we have prepared in parallel a theoretical study describing classical scattering of protons through single-layer graphene. It discusses the level of detail that can be expected from such an … Continue reading →

Today, I officially started my habilitation at Ulm University by giving an overview talk at the Physics Colloquium.  It summarized my research from the last ten years, discussing challenges and solutions in the field of molecule diffraction. This talk was … Continue reading →

Combining diffraction of molecules from light gratings with molecular spectroscopy promises unprecedented insights into photophysical and photochemical processes. The most interesting spectral region for this is the UV, as here aromatic amino acids absorb. While pulsed UV gratings are comparatively … Continue reading →

The Vector Stiftung has selected our project “MagRyd – Magnetic field sensor based on Rydberg atoms” for funding. In this study, we will develop the concept for a compact, drift-free, and absolute magnetometer based on atoms in Rydberg-states for space … Continue reading →

My group and I visited the lab of Philippe Roncin at the University of Paris-Saclay. Philippe pioneered diffraction of fast atoms from surfaces 16 years ago and is a renowned expert of this field. We spent a very interesting day, … Continue reading →

What are the scientific cases for cold atom experiments in space? Have a look at the workshop summary and find out.

This central meeting of the matter-wave community covers a broad range of topics from fundamentals to applications. My group contributed one talk and two posters, and we even won a poster prize! Congratulations to Carina Kanitz.

I just spent four very interesting days in Cambridge, learning about the scattering of atoms and molecules from surfaces at the fifth international SAMS-Workshop. It is absolutely fascinating what you can learn about a system by probing its surface in … Continue reading →

Our paper on “Single-, double-, and triple-slit diffraction of molecular matter waves” was selected as a “Featured” article by the American Journal of Physics and is on the cover of the December 2021 issue.