Topics will cover: 

  • Atom interferometry
    • Status and perspectives of gravity experiments
    • Status and perspectives of rotation experiments
    • Status and perspectives of the weak equivalence principle.  
    • Status and perspectives of charge neutrality tests
  • Cluster interferometry 
    • How to prepare the most brillant sources  
    • Technologies needed to push to 10 MDa, 100 MDa, 1 GDa interferference
    • Testing the weak equivalence principle with quantum particles composed of thousand atoms?
  • Towards nanoparticle interference 
    • Nanodiamond in Stern Gerlach interferometry 
    • Squeezing and squashing the wave function
    • Magnetically levitated nanoparticles
    • Interference via entanglement
  • Nanobiological materials in quantum experiments  
    • Slow protein beams
    • Beam splitters for biopolymers
    • Detectors for neutral biopolymer beams
    • How to extract folding information from quantum interference
Semester (Course overview): 2025S