Congratulations to our PhD student Mohammad Amawi, who just won the prize for the best poster on the conference  "International AGYA Winter School: Quantum Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications" of the German-Arab Young Academy AGYA, hosted at the University of Sharjah (UAE)!

Our latest result just appeared in npj Quantum Information!

We have taken a three-dimensional image of single NV centers spins in a diamond by magnetic resonance tomography. We reach a resolution in the single-nanometer range, which can likely be pushed to the atomic scale in a future improved version of our nanoscale magnetic resonance scanner. 

You can read more about this result in 
npj Quantum Information 10,16 (2024)

Our research group has won the award for excellence in teaching of the Faculty of Mathematics and the Sciences! This in particular highlights our class "Atomic Physics for Future Teachers" where some homework exercises are experiments with every-day items. 

The first paper produced in the new lab is out! We present a simple scheme to calibrate quantum control pulses, which is useful for many applications, especially for experiments on NV centers in diamond. You can learn more about it in AIP Advances 13, 035226 (2023)

A proposal of our group has won the quantum challenge of the optics company Zeiss. We propose to shrink a magnetic resonance imaging scanner to the size of a single biological cell, using NV centers in diamond as a microscale detector. The Quantum Challenge recognizes realistic and promising proposals for near-term applications of quantum technology. The award will also help to attract funding to pursue this project at the University of Rostock. Thanks to Zeiss for supporting our work in this way!
You can read more about it in the Zeiss press release