Prof. Dr. Matthias Weidemüller

Group Leader

Phone: 19470
weidemueller@uni-heidelberg.de
Physikalisches Institut
Universität Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 226
69120, Heidelberg, Germany

Positions

2019 – present: Vice-Rector Innovation and Transfer at Ruprecht-Karl University Heidelberg

2008 – present: Full Professor (Chair) for Experimental Physics at the Ruprecht-Karl University Heidelberg

2013 – 2018: QianRen Jihua (1000Talent Plan) Chair Professor (part-time) at the Hefei National Institute for the Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei and Shanghai, China

2003 – 2008: Full Professor (Chair) for Experimental Physics at the Albert-Ludwig University Freiburg

2004 – 2006: Guest professor, Optics and Photonics Center of the University of São Paulo

2001/2002: Guest professor, University of Innsbruck

2000-2003: Research Group Leader “Laser Cooling Group”, Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg

2000: Habilitation in Physics at the Ruprecht-Karl University Heidelberg

1997-2000: Researcher, Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg (Prof. D. Schwalm/R. Grimm)

1995-1997: Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow, University of Amsterdam and FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (Prof. J.T.M. Walraven)

Education

1995: Doctorate in Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilian University München

1992-1995: Researcher, Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching (Prof. T.W. Hänsch)

1990/1991: Guest Scientist, Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel de l´Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (Prof. S. Haroche)

1990: Diplom in Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilian University München

1987/1988: Trainee, Research Centers of Siemens, Erlangen, and Asea Brown Boveri, Baden near Zürich

1984-1990: Study of physics and philosophy, University of Bonn and University of München

Professional Activities

  • Fellow of the American Physical Society
  • Founding Director, Heidelberg Center for Quantum Dynamics, Heidelberg University (2012-2015)
  • Fellow of the Marsilius Kolleg Heidelberg (2012/13)
  • Dean, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Heidelberg University (2015-2017, Deputy Dean 2012 – 2015)
  • Speaker, Research Council Field of Focus 2, Heidelberg University (2012 – 2015)
  • Managing Director, Physics Institute, Heidelberg University (2010-2011, Deputy Director since 2012)
  • Deputy Dean and Dean for Studies, Department of Physics and Mathematics, University of Freiburg (2006-2008)
  • Member, Editorial Board of Physical Review X (since 2016)
  • Member, Editorial Board of the European Physical Journal ST (since 2014)
  • Member, Editorial Board of the European Physical Journal D (2005 – 2014)
  • Elected Member, Council of the German Physical Society (since 2018)
  • Member, Stern-Gerlach Prize Committee, German Physical Society (since 2017)
  • Chairman, Section “Atoms, Molecules, Quantum Optics and Plasmas”, German Physical Society (2011 – 2015)
  • Chairman, Division “Quantum Optics and Photonics”, German Physical Society (2006-2008, Vice-Chairman 2004-2006)
  • Coordinator, EU ITN “COHERENCE – Cooperativity in Highly Excited Rydberg Ensembles – Control and Entanglement”
  • Coordinator, Collaborative Research Project “QUDIPMOL – Quantum-degenerate dipolar gases of bialkali molecules” within the ESF EUROCORES “Cold Quantum Matter”
  • Member, General Physics Advisory Committee of the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) (2006-2012)
  • Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Research Programme “Coherent Processes in Complex Structures” (funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg, 2004-2007)
  • Member, Steering Committee ESF Programme “Collisions in Atom Traps” (2004-2006)
  • Organizer and co-organizer of international workshops and conferences (Selection: “Current Trends in Atomic Physics“ (Les Houches 2016), “Rydberg Physics with Two-Electron Systems” (Hamburg 2015), “Sino-German Symposium on Quantum Information and Quantum Simulation” (Heidelberg, 2015), German-Japanese Symposium on Laser Science (Heidelberg, 2014),“Rydberg Gases and Ultracold Plasmas” (Harvard, 2009)
  • Vertrauensdozent, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (2005-2013)

Publications

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2024

Lippi E, Gerken M, Häfner S, Repp M, Pires R, Rautenberg M, Krom T, Kuhnle E D, Tran B, Ulmanis J, Chomaz L, Weidemüller M

An Experimental Platform for Studying the Heteronuclear Efimov Effect with an Ultracold Mixture of Li-6 and Cs-133 Atoms Journal Article

In: Few-Body Systems, vol. 66, no. 1, 2024.

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2023

Welz K, Gerken M, Zhu B, Lippi E, Rautenberg M, Chomaz L, Weidemüller M

Anomalous loss behavior in a single-component Fermi gas close to a p-wave Feshbach resonance Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. A, vol. 107, iss. 5, pp. 053310, 2023.

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2022

Hu F, Tan C, Jiang Y, Weidemüller M, Zhu B

Observation of photon recoil effects in single-beam absorption spectroscopy with an ultracold strontium gas Journal Article

In: Chin. Phys. B, vol. 31, pp. 016702, 2022.

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Bharti V, Sugawa S, Mizoguchi M, Kunimi M, Zhang Y, de Léséleuc S, Tomita T, Franz T, Weidemüller M, Ohmori K

Ultrafast Many-Body Dynamics in an Ultracold Rydberg-Excited Atomic Mott Insulator Working paper

arXiv e-prints: 2201.09590, 2022.

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Scholl P, Williams H J, Bornet G, Wallner F, Barredo D, Lahaye T, Henriet L, Signoles A, Hainaut C, Franz T, Geier S, Tebben A, Zürn G, Salzinger A, Weidemüller M, Browaeys A

Microwave-engineering of programmable XXZ Hamiltonians in arrays of Rydberg atoms Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. X Quantum, vol. 3, pp. 020303, 2022.

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Schultzen P, Franz T, Hainaut C, Geier S, Salzinger A, Tebben A, Zürn G, Gärttner M, Weidemüller M

Semiclassical simulations predict glassy dynamics for disordered Heisenberg models Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. B, 2022.

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Schultzen P, Franz T, Geier S, Salzinger A, Tebben A, Hainaut C, Zürn G, Weidemüller M, Gärttner M

Glassy quantum dynamics of disordered Ising spins Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. B, vol. 105, pp. L020201, 2022.

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Hassan S Z, Tauch J, Kas M, Nötzold M, Carrera H L, Endres E S, Wester R, Weidemüller M

Associative detachment in anion-atom reactions involving a dipole-bound electron Journal Article

In: Nat. Comm., vol. 13, pp. 818, 2022.

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Hassan S Z, Tauch J, Kas M, Nötzold M, Wester R, Weidemüller M

Quantum state-dependent anion-neutral detachment processes Journal Article

In: J. Chem. Phys., vol. 156, pp. 094304, 2022.

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Tan C, Lin X, Zhou Y, Jiang Y H, Weidemüller M, Zhu B

Dynamics of position disordered Ising spins with a soft-core potential Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. B, vol. 105, pp. 104204, 2022.

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2021

Signoles A, Franz T, Alves R F, Gärttner M, Whitlock S, Zürn G, Weidemüller M

Observation of glassy dynamics in a disordered quantum spin system Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. X, vol. 11, pp. 011011, 2021.

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Tran B, Rautenberg M, Gerken M, Lippi E, Zhu B, Ulmanis J, Drescher M, Salmhofer M, Enss T, Weidemüller M

Fermions meet two bosons -- the heteronuclear Efimov effect revisited Journal Article

In: Braz. J. Phys., vol. 51, pp. 316, 2021.

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Tebben A, Hainaut C, Salzinger A, Geier S, Franz T, Pohl T, Gärttner M, Zürn G, Weidemüller M

Nonlinear absorption in interacting Rydberg electromagnetically-induced-transparency spectra on two-photon resonance Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. A, vol. 103, pp. 063710, 2021.

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Geier S, Thaicharoen N, Hainaut C, Franz T, Salzinger A, Tebben A, Grimshandl D, Zürn G, Weidemüller M

Floquet Hamiltonian Engineering of an Isolated Many-Body Spin System Journal Article

In: Science, vol. 374, pp. 1149, 2021.

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Stutterheim C, Weidemüller M

Was die Welt zusammenhält: Babel und Bubbles Online

2021, visited: 01.01.2021.

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Qiao C, Tan C, Siegl J, Hu F, Niu Z, Jiang Y, Weidemüller M, Zhu B

Rydberg blockade in an ultracold strontium gas revealed by two-photon excitation dynamics Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. A, vol. 103, pp. 063313, 2021.

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2020

Neugebauer M, Fischer L, Jäger A, Czischek S, Jochim S, Weidemüller M, Gärttner M

Neural network quantum state tomography in a two-qubit experiment Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. A, vol. 102, pp. 042604, 2020.

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Ferreira-Cao M, Gavryusev V, Franz T, Alves R F, Signoles A, Zürn G, Weidemüller M

Depletion imaging of Rydberg atoms in cold atomic gases Journal Article

In: J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys., vol. 53, iss. 8, pp. 084005, 2020.

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Grimshandl D, Gerken M, Lippi E, Tran B, Hassan S Z, Becher J H, Jochim S, Weidemüller M, Föhner G, Brucker S, Schumacher F, Beldermann W, Angelov V, Hetzel S, Hummel S, Muley S, Windelband B, Eisner C, Zugaj M, Bayer P, Ernst D, Gehrlein M, Jacob H, Pfeifle J, Treskatsch A, Ulmschneider M, Preiss P M

The HDvent Emergency Ventilator System Working paper

arXiv e-prints: 2012.13005, 2020.

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Enss T, Tran B, Rautenberg M, Gerken M, Lippi E, Drescher M, Zhu B, Weidemüller M, Salmhofer M

Scattering of two heavy Fermi polarons: resonances and quasi-bound states Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. A, vol. 102, pp. 063321, 2020.

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Nötzold M, Hassan S Z, Tauch J, Enerds E, Wester R, Weidemüller M

Thermometry in a Multipole Ion Trap Journal Article

In: Appl. Sci., vol. 10, pp. 5264, 2020.

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Möhl C, Spong N, Jiao Y, So C, Ilieva T, Weidemüller M, Adams C S

Photon correlation transients in a weakly blockaded Rydberg ensemble Journal Article

In: J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys., vol. 53, iss. 8, pp. 084004, 2020.

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Yuan J, Ma Y, Li R, Ma H, Zhang Y, Ye D, Shen Z, Yan T, Wang X, Weidemüller M

Momentum Spectroscopy for Multiple Ionization of Cold Rubidium in the Elliptically Polarized Laser Field Journal Article

In: Chin. Phys. Lett., vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 053201, 2020.

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Weidemüller M

Kollektiv am kritischen Punkt Journal Article

In: Physik Journal, vol. 19, iss. 8, pp. 24, 2020.

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Mizoguchi M, Zhang Y, Kunimi M, Tanaka A, Takeda S, Takei N, Bharti V, Koyasu K, Kishimoto T, Jaksch D, Glaetzle A, Kiffner M, Masella G, Pupillo G, Weidemüller M, Ohmori K

Ultrafast creation of overlapping Rydberg electrons in an atomic BEC and Mott-insulator lattice Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 124, pp. 253201, 2020.

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Yuan J, Liu S, Wang X, Shen Z, Ma Y, Ma H, Meng Q, Yan T, Zhang Y, Dorn A, Weidemüller M, Ye D, Jiang Y

Ellipticity-dependent sequential over-barrier ionization of cold rubidium Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. A, vol. 102, pp. 043112, 2020.

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2019

Tebben A, Hainaut C, Walther V, Zhang Y, Zürn G, Pohl T, Weidemüller M

Blockade-induced resonant enhancement of the optical nonlinearity in a Rydberg medium Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. A, vol. 100, iss. 6, pp. 063812, 2019.

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Whitlock S, Wildhagen H, Weimer H, Weidemüller M

Diffusive to non-ergodic dipolar transport in a dissipative atomic medium Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 123, pp. 213606, 2019.

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Gerken M, Tran B, Häfner S, Tiemann E, Zhu B, Weidemüller M

Observation of dipolar splittings in high-resolution atom-loss spectroscopy of $^6$Li $p$-wave Feshbach resonances Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. A (Rapid Comm.), vol. 100, iss. 5, pp. 050701, 2019.

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Hu F, Nosske I, Couturier L, Tan C, Qiao C, Chen P, Jiang Y H, Zhu B, Weidemüller M

Analyzing a single-laser repumping scheme for efficient loading of a strontium magneto-optical trap Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. A, vol. 99, iss. 3, pp. 033422, 2019.

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Li R, Yuan J, Wang X, Hou X, Zhang S, Zhu Z, Ma Y, Gao Q, Wang Z, Yan T M, Qin C, Li S, Zhang Y, Weidemüller M, Jiang Y H

Recoil-ion momentum spectroscopy for cold rubidium in a strong femtosecond laser field Journal Article

In: Journal of Instrumentation, vol. 14, no. 02, pp. P02022, 2019.

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Couturier L, Nosske I, Hu F, Tan C, Qiao C, Jiang Y H, Chen P, Weidemüller M

Measurement of the strontium triplet Rydberg series by depletion spectroscopy of ultracold atoms Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. A, vol. 99, iss. 2, pp. 022503, 2019.

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Zhu B, Häfner S, Tran B, Gerken M, Ulmanis J, Tiemann E, Weidemüller M

Spin-rotation coupling in p-wave Feshbach resonances Working paper

arXiv e-prints: 1910.12011, 2019.

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Zhu B, Häfner S, Tran B, Gerken M, Ulmanis J, Tiemann E, Weidemüller M

High partial-wave Feshbach resonances in an ultracold $^6$Li-$^133$Cs mixture Working paper

arXiv e-prints: 1912.01264, 2019.

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Qiao C, Tan C, Hu F, Couturier L, Nosske I, Chen P, Jiang Y, Zhu B, Weidemüller M

An ultrastable laser system at 689 nm for cooling and trapping of strontium Journal Article

In: Applied Physics B, vol. 125, no. 11, pp. 215, 2019.

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Weidemüller M

Temperaturen im Keller. Das kälteste Gas des Universums Online

2019, visited: 01.01.2019.

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2018

Alcala D A, Urban G, Weidemüller M, Carr L D

Macroscopic quantum escape of Bose-Einstein condensates: Analysis of experimentally realizable quasi-one-dimensional traps Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. A, vol. 98, iss. 2, pp. 023619, 2018.

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Lackner S, Spitz A, Weidemüller M, Gertz M

Efficient anti-community detection in complex networks Conference

SSDBM '18: Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, no. 16, ACM, 2018, ISBN: 978-1-4503-6505-5.

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Orioli A P, Signoles A, Wildhagen H, Günter G, Berges J, Whitlock S, Weidemüller M

Relaxation of an Isolated Dipolar-Interacting Rydberg Quantum Spin System Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 120, iss. 6, pp. 063601, 2018.

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Couturier L, Nosske I, Hu F, Tan C, Qiao C, Jiang Y, Chen P, Weidemüller M

Laser frequency stabilization using a commercial wavelength meter Journal Article

In: Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 89, no. 4, pp. 043103, 2018.

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2017

Ohmori K, Pupillo G, Thywissen J H, Weidemüller M

Special issue on addressing many-body problems with cold atoms and molecules Journal Article

In: Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 020201, 2017.

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Nosske I, Couturier L, Hu F, Tan C, Qiao C, Blume J, Jiang Y H, Chen P, Weidemüller M

Two-dimensional magneto-optical trap as a source for cold strontium atoms Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. A, vol. 96, iss. 5, pp. 053415, 2017.

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Häfner S, Ulmanis J, Kuhnle E D, Wang Y, Greene C H, Weidemüller M

Role of the intraspecies scattering length in the Efimov scenario with large mass difference Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. A, vol. 95, iss. 6, pp. 062708, 2017.

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Weidemüller M

Rydbergs Baukasten für die Quantensimulation Journal Article

In: Physik Journal, vol. 16, iss. 10, pp. 22, 2017.

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Höltkemeier B, Glässel J, Lopez H, Weidemüller M

A dense gas of laser-cooled atoms for hybrid atom-ion trapping Journal Article

In: Applied Physics B, vol. 123, no. 1, pp. 51, 2017.

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2016

Höltkemeier B, Weckesser P, Lopez H, Weidemüller M

Dynamics of a single trapped ion immersed in a buffer gas Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. A, vol. 94, iss. 6, pp. 062703, 2016.

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Ulmanis J, Häfner S, Pires R, Kuhnle E D, Wang Y, Greene C H, Weidemüller M

Heteronuclear Efimov scenario with positive intraspecies scattering length Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 117, pp. 153201, 2016.

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Höltkemeier B, Weckesser P, Lopez H, Weidemüller M

Buffer-Gas Cooling of a Single Ion in a Multipole Radio Frequency Trap Beyond the Critical Mass Ratio Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 116, iss. 23, pp. 233003, 2016.

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Ulmanis J, Häfner S, Kuhnle E D, Weidemüller M

Heteronuclear Efimov resonances in ultracold quantum gases Journal Article

In: National Science Review, vol. 3, pp. 174, 2016.

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Ulmanis J, Häfner S, Pires R, Werner F, Petrov D S, Kuhnle E D, Weidemüller M

Universal three-body recombination and Efimov resonances in an ultracold Li-Cs mixture Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. A, vol. 93, iss. 2, pp. 022707, 2016.

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