AG Theoretische Quantenoptik

Nov. 2024: The German Physical Society (DPG) and OPTICA (formerly Optical Society of America) will award the Herbert Walther Prize 2025 to Michael Fleischhauer.

„For key contributions in nonlinear quantum optics as well as photonic and atomic quantum technologies - in particular for the development of a toolbox to coherently control multi-level atoms with light, including the concept of dark state polaritons and Rydberg dipole blockade physics.“

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July 2024: Julius Bohm received the Studierendenpreis of the Alumni Vereinigung Physik for his strong committment and engagement for student matters in the department.

May 2024: The grants committee of the German Science foundation has decided to fund the SFB-TR 185 “OSCAR” for four more years. M. Fleischhauer will continue to be the spokesperson of the CRC.

July 2023: Maximilian Kiefer-Emmanouilidis received the PhD prize of the physics Alumni association AJF 2023

March 2023: Christopher Mink received the Best Poster Prize from 52 contributions at the 783. WE-Heraeus-Seminar on “Quantum Control of Light” in Bad Honnef

Feb. 2023: Maximilian Kiefer-Emmanouilidis is one of the four finalists for the dissertation prize of the AMO section of the DPG.

Nov. 3rd, 2020: Our paper “Quantum memory for photons: Dark-state polaritons” published in Physical Review A 65, 022314 (2002) was selected by the editors of Physical Review A for inclusion in the 50th Anniversary Milestone collection. The collection can be found online at https://journals.aps.org/pra/50th.

July 17th, 2020: PRA Behind the Research: Michael Fleischhauer and Misha Lukin on “Quantum Memory for Photons: Dark-state polaritons”. webinar

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May 2020: The grants committee of the German Science foundation has decided to fund the SFB-TR 185 “OSCAR” for four more years. As planned the coordination will move to Kaiserslautern with the second funding period and M. Fleischhauer will be the new spokesperson.

July 2019: Malte Koster reveiced the Studierendenpreis of the Alumni Vereinigung Physik for his strong committment and engagement for student matters in the department AJF 2019

June / July 2019: Fabian Letscher received the first award of the graduate school of excellence MAINZ going to Kaiserslautern for his PhD graduate school MAINZ and the Alumni Promotionspreis AJF 2019

March 2019: Together with the group of H. Ott we organize the international workshop of the DFG priority programm 1929 “GiRyd” on Rydberg physics, 25.-27.03., here in Kaiserslautern. http://giryd.de

Sept. 2018: Within the AvH Institutional Partnership programm with the group of David Petrosyan, we will organize a conference on “Strongly interacting, open many-body systems with Rydberg atoms” in Crete, from Sept.30 -Oct.3rd, announcement

May 2017: The Alexander-von-Humboldt foundation has granted a three year institutional partnership between our group and the group of Dr. David Petrosyan at FORTH.

Summer 2016: Prof. Dr. Claudia Mewes received the 2016 Presidential Faculty Award of the University of Alabama

June 2016: (*name removed upon legal request) was one of the finalists for the DAMOP thesis prize of the American Physical Society M2lasers

May 2016: The transregional collaborative research center OSCAR “Open-System Control of Atomic and photonic matteR” TRR 185 together with groups from the University of Bonn got approved!

March 2016: The thesis prize of the AMOP section of the German Physical Society goes to (*name removed upon legal request) DPG

Dez. 2015: Claudia Mewes, who was the first PhD student in our group and recently received a 500 k$ NSF career award now received a tenured associate professorhip at the University of Alabama.

Oct. 2015: M. Fleischhauer was re-elected to the executive board of the German Physical Society (DPG) for a second period (2015-2018)

June 2015: Michael Höning received the Alumni Promotionspreis of the Department of Physics for his PhD. AJF 2015

May 2015: The priority programme GiRyd is one of 18 new priority programmes selected from 87 proposals by the senate of the DFG for funding starting in 2016. The coordinator is Prof. Tilman Pfau from Stuttgart and the vice coordinator is Michael Fleischhauer. For more details see www.giryd.de

May 2015: The DFG Senate has approved a third and last funding period for the SFB TR49. Also the pre-proposal of our new SFB initiative “OSCAR” (Open System Control for Atomic and photonic matteR) got approved by the DFG Senate. The full proposal will be submitted during this year and will be decided upon in a year from now.

July 2014: The Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz has elected Prof. Dr. Michael Fleischhauer as a new regular member. AdW

Dec. 2013: David Petrosyan has received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel award of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation. This award allows him to conduct research in Germany. Our group will be his main host.

June 2013: Dominik Muth received one of the prizes of the “Freundeskreis der TU Kaiserslautern” for his PhD.

We co-organize a Heraeus Seminar on “Quantum Many-body Dynamics in Open System” in Bad Honnef from 02.04.-05.04.2013. For more information, list of invited speakers, and application see the link on the left sidebar.

June 2012: Michael Hoening received this years Nachwuchspreis of the Department of Physics given to diploma students and Johannes Otterbach received one of the prizes of the Freundeskreis for his PhD.

15.06.2012: The excellence center “CASE” made a very good stand in the second round of the selection process but was eventually not selected for funding in the federal excellence initiative. We will however continue to realize the vision of CASE without federal funding.

15.06.2012: The “Graduate School of Excellence MAterial Science IN MainZ” jointly operated by the University of Mainz, the University of Kaiserslautern and the Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research was selected for funding for a second period in the federal excellence initiative. Our group is part of the PI's team from Kaiserslautern.

In its meeting on May 24th, 2011, the senate of the DFG has approved the funding of a second period of the SFB-TR49.

Johannes Otterbach from our group is one of the first recipients of the newly established Prize Fellowships of the Harvard Quantum Optics Center. He will leave us in the fall of 2011 starting a post doc at Harvard.

CASE in second round of federal excellence initiative

02.03.2011: The Cluster of Excellence CASE (Kaiserslautern Center for Advanced Spin Engineering), which includes our research group, prevailed in the first round of the excellence initiative of the German Federal and State Governments (2nd phase, 2012-2017). From 107 initial proposals, CASE was selected together with 26 cluster initiatives from various scientific areas for taking part in the main application process together with the existing excellence clusters.

group member of state research center OPTIMAS

Within the research initiative 2008-2011 of the state of Rhineland Palatina two state research centers were established at the University of Kaiserslautern, these are the CMCM (Center for Mathematical and Computational Modelling) and OPTIMAS (Center for optics and material science).

June 2009: Johannes Otterbach received this year Nachwuchspreis of the Department of Physics for his diploma and Jürgen Kästel received the Alumni Promotionspreis of the Department of Physics for his PhD.

19.10.2007: The “Graduate School of Excellence MAterial Science IN MainZ” with contributions from the Kaiserslautern groups Anglin, Eggert, Fleischhauer and Hillebrands was selected for funding in the federal excellence initiative.

Die DFG hat zum 01.07.2007 die Einrichtung des Sonderforschungsbereichs SFB TRR49 “Condensed Matter Systems with variable Many-Body Interactions” beschlossen.

Sprecher: Prof. Dr. M. Lang (Universität Frankfurt)

Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern