Martin Weitz

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Martin Weitz (* 1964 in Mannheim ) is a German physicist and professor at the University of Bonn .

Life

Weitz studied physics at the University of Kaiserslautern and the Technical University of Munich . He received his doctorate in 1992 with Theodor Hänsch at LMU Munich with a thesis on precision spectroscopy on the hydrogen atom . He then did research in Steven Chu's group at Stanford University and at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics . After his habilitation, Weitz was appointed professor at the University of Tübingen in 2001 , and in 2006 he moved to a chair at the University of Bonn.

Weitz works in quantum gases from light, cold atomic gases in optical lattices and work on laser cooling under high pressure conditions. With his Bonn working group, he succeeded in realizing a Bose-Einstein condensate from photons. The use of two-dimensional photon gases in microresonators filled with a dye solution is characteristic of these experiments.

In 2010, Weitz, together with Jan Klaers and Frank Vewinger, received 1st prize in the NRW patent competition “Patents Inventors”. In 2012 he was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant.

Fonts (selection)

  • with D. Dung, C. Kurtscheid, T. Damm, J. Schmitt, F. Vewinger, J. Klaers: Variable potentials for thermalized light and coupled condensates . In: Nature Photonics , 11, 2017, 565
  • with J. Schmitt, T. Damm, D. Dung, F. Vewinger, J. Klaers: Observation of grand-canonical number statistics in a photon Bose-Einstein condensate . In: Phys. Rev. Lett. , 112, 2014, 030401
  • with J. Klaers, J. Schmitt, F. Vewinger: Bose-Einstein condensation of photons in an optical microcavity . In: Nature , 468, 2010, 545
  • with T. Salger, S. Kling, T. Hecking, C. Geckeler, L. Morales-Molina: Directed transport in a Hamiltonian quantum ratchet . In: Science , 326, 2009, 1241
  • with U. Vogl: Laser cooling by collisional redistribution of radiation . In: Nature , 461, 2009, 70
  • with B. Young, S. Chu: Atomic Interferometer based on adiabatic population transfer . In: Phys. Rev. Lett. , 73, 1994, 2563
  • with F. Schmidt-Kaler, T. Hänsch: Precise optical Lamb shift measurements in atomic hydrogen . In: Phys. Rev. Lett. , 68, 1992, 1120

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bonn physicists win inventor award - University of Bonn. Retrieved November 27, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Funding millions for applied physicists - University of Bonn. Retrieved November 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Weitz, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and professor at the University of Bonn
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim