Please join us for the first AMO seminar event of the semester. Our speaker will be Dr. Markus Ardnt from the University of Vienna.

His talk is titled: New Quantum Tools for Molecular Physics
Abstract:
Since their beginnings in the early 20th century, molecular beams have become essential in many experiments in physics and physical chemistry.
While techniques to launch, control, manipulate and detect diatomic or small polyatomic molecules have already become a strong pillar of modern quantum optics, the development of similar tools for complex macromolecules is still an open need.
We will discuss ways to launch large neutral and singly charged polypeptides or proteins, to control their charge using single-photon chemistry, as well as recent advances in detecting slow macromolecules using superconducting nanowire technologies.
Many of these techniques are promising for generic molecular physics and mass spectrometry and they are supposed to add to future matter-wave experiments. We will also see how the precision of advanced matter-wave interferometry can be used to determine subtle molecular properties.
This research is funded by the European Commission within the project 860713, as well as by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in project 10771.