Tilman Esslinger

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Tilman Esslinger (born July 25, 1965 ) is a German physicist . He is a professor at ETH Zurich , where he works in the field of ultracold quantum gases and optical lattices .

Life

Tilman Esslinger received his PhD in physics in 1995 from the University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (Germany). For his dissertation he worked on laser cooling and optical grids under the direction of Theodor Hänsch . After completing his doctorate, he set up his own working group in Hänsch's department and did pioneering work in the field of atomic lasers , observed long-range phase coherence in a Bose-Einstein condensate and the quantum phase transition in a Bose gas from a superfluid to a Mott insulator . After his habilitation , Esslinger was appointed full professor at ETH Zurich in October 2001 , where he made pioneering contributions in the fields of one-dimensional atomic gases , atomic Fermi-Hubbard models and the merging of quantum gas experiments with cavity quantum electrodynamics .

In 2014 he was made a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) .

Act

The research work of Esslinger and his colleagues has stimulated an interdisciplinary exchange between groups in the fields of quantum gases and solid state physics. Important results in recent years include the development of a quantum simulator for graphene , the construction of an optomechanical system consisting of an optical resonator and a quantum gas, in which the thickness- quantum phase transition was observed for the first time , and the creation of an analogue of a mesoscopic conductor based on atomic gases and the observation of the onset of superfluidity in this system. Esslinger received a Philip Morris Research Award in 2000 (together with Theodor Hänsch and Immanuel Bloch ). Esslinger has received two Advanced Grants from the European Research Council (ERC) , with funding from 2010 and 2017 respectively. He is the author of more than 80 specialist publications, which have been cited more than 8,000 times (as of March 2013).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bulletin No. 284, February 2002, p. 62, PDF page 61. Retrieved on May 26, 2013
  2. ^ I. Bloch, TW Hänsch & T. Esslinger, Atom Laser with a cw Output Coupler Physical Review Letters 82, 3008–3011 (1999)
  3. ↑ I. Bloch, TW Hänsch & T. Esslinger, Measurement of the spatial coherence of a trapped Bose gas at the phase transition Nature 403, 166-170 (2000)
  4. ^ M. Greiner, I. Bloch, O. Mandel, TW Hänsch & T. Esslinger, Exploring Phase Coherence in a 2D Lattice of Bose-Einstein Condensates Physical Review Letters 87, 160405 (2001)
  5. ↑ M. Greiner, O. Mandel, T. Esslinger, TW Hänsch & I. Bloch, Quantum Phase Transition from a Superfluid to a Mott Insulator Nature 415, 39-44 (2002)
  6. ↑ T. Stöferle, H. Moritz, C. Schori, M. Köhl & T. Esslinger, Transition from a Strongly Interacting 1D Superfluid to a Mott Insulator Physical Review Letters 92, 130403 (2004)
  7. ↑ T. Esslinger, Fermi – Hubbard Physics with Atoms in an Optical Lattice Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics 1, 129–152 (2010)
  8. ↑ F. Brennecke, T. Donner, S. Ritter, T. Bourdel, M. Köhl & T. Esslinger, Cavity QED with a Bose – Einstein condensate Nature 450, 268-271 (2007)
  9. ↑ APS Fellow Archive. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
  10. ↑ L. Tarruell, D. Greif, T. Uehlinger, G. Jotzu & T. Esslinger, Creating, moving and merging Dirac points with a Fermi gas in a tunable honeycomb lattice Nature 483, 302–305 (2012)
  11. ↑ K. Baumann, C. Guerlin, F. Brennecke & T. Esslinger, Dicke quantum phase transition with a superfluid gas in an optical cavity Nature 464, 1301–1306 (2010)
  12. ↑ J.-P. Brantut, J. Meineke, D. Stadler, S. Krinner & T. Esslinger, Conduction of Ultracold Fermions Through a Mesoscopic Channel Science 337, 1069-1071 (2012)
  13. ↑ D. Stadler, S. Krinner, J. Meineke, J.-P. Brantut & T. Esslinger, Observing the drop of resistance in the flow of a superfluid Fermi gas Nature 491, 736-739 (2012)
  14. ↑ ERC FUNDED PROJECTS. ERC: European Research Council, accessed February 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Esslinger, Tilman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1965