July 7, 2026
Thies Plaßmann defends his PhD
A special day, with the PhD defense of Thies Plaßmann, who gave a wonderful presentation on spin-resolved microscopy of SU(N) fermions. Congratulations, Dr. Plaßmann! We wish you all the best for the future.
May 1, 2026
Leander Eichhorn starts his master thesis
Welcome, Leander! We look forward to having fun studying individual strontium atoms with you.
May 1, 2026
Virgile Fasquel starts his internship
Welcome, Virgile! We look forward to experimenting with a new laser wavelength in the lab.
February 23, 2026
Spin-resolved microscopy of SU(N) fermions
We have developed high-fidelity, microsecond-resolution, micrometer-scale, spin-resolved imaging of individual SU(N) fermions! Check out our preprint here.
December 1, 2025
Sophie Häfele starts her PhD
Welcome, Sophie! We look forward to performing exciting experiments with SU(N) fermions.
May 13, 2025
Meny Menashes defends his PhD
A special day, with the PhD defense of Meny Menashes, who gave a great overview of what it takes to build a quantum simulation platform with strontium from scratch. Congratulations, Dr. Menashes! We wish you all the best in Heidelberg.
January 28, 2025
First individual atoms imaged in free space
We can now image several atoms in free space within 10 microseconds!
December 3, 2024
First single atom detection on the experiment
A milestone for our experiment: we can detect individual atoms with high fidelity and image them repeatedly!
February 27, 2024
First atoms in the reservoir dipole trap
We have transferred about 90% of the Sr 88 atoms from the red MOT to our dipole trap!