Immanuel Bloch

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Immanuel Felix Bloch (born November 16, 1972 in Fulda ) is a German physicist and university professor .

Life

Immanuel Bloch studied from 1991 to 1995 as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn and wrote his diploma thesis on stimulated light forces with picosecond laser pulses in 1996 . After a two-year research stay at Stanford University , he completed his doctorate in 2000 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich under Theodor Hänsch on atomic lasers and phase coherence of atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. During this time he was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching , where he remained as a research assistant until 2002. In May 2002 he moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. After rejecting offers from Stanford University and Yale University at the beginning of 2003 , he was C4 professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from the end of 2003 . In 2009 he moved to the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics as Director and as Professor at the Faculty of Physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Since 2009 he has also been a member of the Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM) .

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Bloch and Theodor Hänsch's group succeeded in developing an atomic laser with a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) during his doctorate in 1999 . He is mainly concerned with the manipulation of BECs using grids made of light waves ( laser beams ). Using these methods, it was possible in 2002 for the first time to convert a BEC into a different state of matter, the Mott isolator state.

Awards and memberships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Immanuel Bloch on the DFG homepage, accessed on June 28, 2019
  2. Prof. Dr. Bloch on Simulated Quantum Worlds
  3. Database of the bearers of the Federal Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Federal President's Office
  4. Member entry of Immanuel Bloch (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 30, 2016.
  5. Awarding of the Hector Science Prize
  6. ^ Founding ceremony of the Hector Fellow Academy
  7. Harvey Prize 2015
  8. From medieval studies to experimental physics: Bavarian Academy of Sciences elects 11 new members. Press release from March 22, 2018 from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Retrieved March 22, 2018.