A

Dr. Bernhard Albrecht

Storage of fiber-guided light in a nanofiber-trapped ensemble of cold cesium atoms
Supervisor: Arno Rauschenbeutel
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Dr. Robert Amsüss

Strong Coupling of an NV-Spin Ensemble to a Superconducting Resonator
Supervisor: Jörg Schmiedmayer
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Dr. Peter Asenbaum

Cavity Cooling of Silicon Nanoparticles in High-Vacuum
Supervisor: Markus Arndt
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B

Dr. Alexander Benz

Tetrahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers: Carrier Transport and Photonic Crystal
Supervisor: Karl Unterrainer
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Dr. Iva Brezinova

Dynamics of Bose-Einstein Condensates and Wave Chaos
Supervisor: Joachim Burgdörfer
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Dr. Tarik Berrada

Mach-Zehnder Interferometry with Interacting Bose-Einstein Condensates in a Double-Well Potential
Supervisor: Jörg Schmiedmayer
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Dr. Kathrin Buczak

Creation and Charge State Dynamics of Nitrogen-Vacancy colour Centres in Diamond for Quantum Applications
Supervisor: Jörg Schmiedmayer
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Dr. Martin Brandstetter

Novel Cavity Concepts for Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers
Supervisor: Karl Unterrainer
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Dr. Robert Bücker

Twin-atom Beam Generation in a One-Dimensional Bose Gas
Supervisor: Jörg Schmiedmayer
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C

Dr. Giuseppe Calajo

Atom-photon interactions in slow-light waveguide QED
Supervisor: Peter Rabl
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Dr. Esteban Castro Ruiz 

Quantum clocks and the physical realisation of indefinite causal structures
Supervisor: Caslav Brukner
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Dr. Fabio Costa

Local and Causal Structures in Quantum Theory
Supervisor: Caslav Brukner
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D

Dr. Borivoje Dakic

Generic Probabilistic Theories - Reconstruction of quantum theory
Supervisor: Caslav Brukner
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Dr. Christoph Deutsch

Novel Semiconductor Materials and Growth-Related Asymmetries in Terahertz
Supervisor: Cascade Lasers
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Dr. Nadine Dörre

Time-Domain Matter-Wave Interferometry with Clusters and Large Molecules
Supervisor: Markus Arndt
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Dr. Uros Delic

 Cavity cooling by coherent scattering of a levitated nanosphere in vacuum
Supervisor: Markus Aspelmeyer
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Dr. Daniel Dietze

Nonlinear Terahertz Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Heterostructures
Supervisor: Karl Unterrainer
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Dr. Benoit Descamps

Quantum Dissipative Dynamics and their applications
Supervisor: Frank Verstraete
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Dr. Fritz Diorico

Novel Atomchip Technologies with Superconductors
Supervisor: Jörg Schmiedmayer
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E

Dr. Maximilian Ebner

Development of a Metastable Helium BEC as a Platform for Experiments with EPR-Entangled Matter Waves
Supervisor: Anton Zeilinger
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Dr. Sandra Eibenberger

Quantum Interference Experiments with Complex Organic Molecules
Supervisor: Markus Arndt
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F

Dr. Adrien Feix

Indefinite causal structures: physical implementability and applications
Supervisor: Caslav Brukner
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Dr. Robert Fickler

Entanglement of Complex Structures of Photons
Supervisor: Anton Zeilinger
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G

Dr. Stefan Gerlich

Interferometry and Metrology with Macromolecules
Supervisor: Markus Arndt
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Dr. David Grass

Levitated optomechanics in vacuum using hollow core photonic crystal fibers and optical cavities
Supervisor: Markus Aspelmeyer
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Dr. Simon Gröblacher

Quantum opto-mechanics with micromirrors: combining nano-mechanics with quantum optics
Supervisor: Anton Zeilinger 
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Dr. Flaminia Giacomini

Quantum reference frames and the covariance of quantum physics
Supervisor: Caslav Brukner
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Dr. Michael Gring

Prethermalization in an Isolated Many Body System
Supervisor: Jörg Schmiedmayer
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Dr. Marissa Giustina

Bell’s inequality and two conscientious experiments
Supervisor: Anton Zeilinger
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Dr. Pjotrs Grisins

Cooling and Thermalization of One-Dimensional Bosonic Systems
Supervisor: Jörg Schmiedmayer
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H

Dr. Jakob Hinney

Squeezed light from an ensemble of nanofiber trapped atoms
Supervisor: Arno Rauschenbeutel
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Dr. Jason Hoelscher-Obermaier

Generation and Detection of Quantum Entanglement in Optomechanical Systems
Supervisor: Markus Aspelmeyer
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Dr. Sebastian Hofer

Quantum Control of Optomechanical Systems
Supervisor: Markus Aspelmeyer
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I


J

Dr. Tuomas Jaako

Ultrastrong Light-Matter Coupling in Circuit QED
Supervisor: Peter Rabl
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K

Dr. Christian Knobloch

Coherent matter-wave manipulation techniques
Supervisor: Markus Arndt
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Dr. Stefan Kuhn

Cooling and manipulating the ro-translational motion of dielectric particles in high vacuum
Supervisor: Markus Arndt
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Dr. Mateusz Kotyrba

Bose-Einstein Condensation of Metastable Helium-4 Quantum Entanglement Experiments
Supervisor: Anton Zeilinger
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Dr. Maximilian Kuhnert

Thermalization and Prethermalization in an Untracold Bose Gas
Supervisor: Jörg Schmiedmayer
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Dr. Michael Krall

Nanoscale Transport and Photonic Confinement in Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers
Supervisor: Karl Unterrainer
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L

Dr. Tim Langen

Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of One-Dimensional Bose Gases
Supervisor: Jörg Schmiedmayer
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Dr. Radek Lapkiewicz

Experimental Non-classicality of an Indivisble Quantum System
Supervisor: Anton Zeilinger
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Dr. Govinda Lilley

Coupling Multi-Colour NAs and QDs for the Efficient Generation of Single THz Photons
Supervisor: Karl Unterrainer
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M

Dr. Lukas Mairhofer

Quantum-interference assisted Metrology with complex Biomolecules
Supervisor: Markus Arndt
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Dr. Alexandra Mech

Experimental test of a Bell inequality with Nonmaximally Entangled States
Supervisor: Anton Zeilinger
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Dr. Thomas Moldaschl

Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Self-Assembled Quantum Dots
Supervisor: Karl Unterrainer
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Dr. Xiaosong Ma

Non-local delayed-choice experiments with entangles photons
Supervisor: Anton Zeilinger 
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Dr. Stefan Minniberger

Ultracold atoms on superconducting atomchips

Supervisor: Jörg Schmiedmayer
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Dr. Amir Moquanaki

Narrow-band Photons for Quantum Information
Supervisor: Philip Walther
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Dr. Stephanie Manz

Density correlations of expanding one-dimensional Bose gases
Supervisor: Jörg Schmiedmayer 
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Dr. Rudolf Mitsch

Interaction and Manipulation of Nanofiber-Trapped Atoms with Spin-Orbit Coupled Light
Supervisor: Arno Rauschenbeutel
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N

Dr. Stefan Nimmrichter

Macroscopic Matter-Wave Interferometry
Supervisor: Markus Arndt
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Dr. Tobias Nöbauer

Sensing, Coherent Coupling and Optimal Control with Nitrogen-Vacancy Colour Centres in Diamond
Supervisor: Jörg Schmiedmayer
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O


P

Dr. Marine Pigneur

Relaxation to a Phase-locked Equilibrium state in a One-dimensional Bosonic Josephson Junction
Supervisor: Jörg Schmiedmayer
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Dr. Igor Pikovski

Macroscopic Quantum Systems and Gravitational Phenomena
Supervisor: Caslav Brukner
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Dr. Bogdan Pirvu

Simulations of Quantum Spin Chains with Translationally Invariant Matrix Product States
Supervisor: Frank Verstraete
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Q


R

Dr. Sven Ramelow

Experiments on Quantum Frequency Conversion of Photons
Supervisor: Anton Zeilinger
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Dr. Jonas Rodewald

Experiments with a pulsed Talbot Lau matter-wave interferometer
Supervisor: Markus Arndt

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Dr. Bernhard Rauer

Non-equilibrium dynamics beyond dephasing: Recurrences and loss induced cooling in one-dimensional Bose gases
Supervisor: Jörg Schmiedmayer
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Dr. Wolfgang Rohringer

Dynamics of One-Dimensional Bose Gases in Time-Dependent Traps
Supervisor: Jörg Schmiedmayer
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Dr. Ralf Riedinger

Single Phonon Quantum Optics

Supervisor: Markus Aspelmeyer
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Dr. Giulia Rubino

Quantum Causality and the Indefinite Thermodynamic Arrow of Time
Supervisor: Philip Walther
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S

Dr. Burak Sahinoglu

A Tensor Network Study of Topological Quantum Phases of Matter

Supervisor: Frank Verstraete
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Dr. Valentin Stauber

Tensor Networks in Strongly Correlated Matter: From Local Tensors to Global Properties
Supervisor: Frank Verstraete
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Dr. Mateus de Araújo Santos

Quantum computation with indefinite causal structures
Supervisor: Caslav Brukner
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Dr. Georg Sulyok

Photon Exchange and Decoherence in Neutron Interferometry
Supervisor: Helmut Rauch
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Dr. Ugur Sezer

Slow beams of high-mass organic molecules

Supervisor: Markus Arndt
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SCH

Dr. Christoph Schäff

Creating and Manipulating Higher-Dimensional Entangled Photonic Quantum Systems Using Integrated Optics
Supervisor: Anton Zeilinger
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Dr. Matthias Schreitl

Growth and characterization of (doped) calcium fluoride crystals for the nuclear spectroscopy of Th-229
Supervisor: Thorsten Schumm
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Dr. Michael Scheucher

Single-atom cavity quantum electrodynamics with whispering-gallery-modes: Single-photon nonlinearity and nonreciprocity
Supervisor: Arno Rauschenbeutel
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Dr. Thomas Schweigler

Correlations and dynamics of tunnel-coupled one-dimensional Bose gases
Supervisor: Jörg Schmiedmayer
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Dr. Jonas Schmöle

Development of a micromechanical proof-of-principle experiment for measuring the gravitational force of milligram masses
Supervisor: Markus Aspelmeyer
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T

Dr. Kristan Temme

Quantum Markov processes and applications in many-body systems
Supervisor: Frank Verstraete
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Dr. Max Tillmann

Multi-photon interference using laser-written waveguides for BosonSampling and related computations
Supervisor: Philip Walther
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U

Dr. Alexander Urich

Plasmonic Enhanced Interaction of Light with Fluorophores and Graphene for Applications in Optics and Optoelectronics
Supervisor: Karl Unterrainer
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V

Dr. Michael Vanner

Continuous and Pulsed Cavity Quantum Optomechanics
Supervisor: Markus Aspelmeyer
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Dr. Rui Vasconcelos

Towards scalable photonic entanglement generation
Supervisor: Philip Walther
ABSTRACT


W

Dr. Dominic Williamson

Matrix product operator symmetries in topological phases of matter
Supervisor: Frank Verstraete
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Dr. Johannes Wilms

Mutual Information in Interacting Spin Systems
Supervisor: Frank Verstraete
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Dr. Georg Winkler

Towards high-precision VUV frequency comb spectroscopy of the thorium-229 nuclear isomer
Supervisor: Thorsten Schumm
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Y


Z

Dr. Jonas Zeuner

Complex Multiphoton Processing Using Integrated Circuits
Supervisor: Philip Walther
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Dr. Magdalena Zych

Quantum Systems Under Gravitational Time Dilation
Supervisor: Caslav Brukner
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