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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Herbert P. Broida Prize, American Physical Society
  • 2014 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For observations of dipolar BEC, Rydberg blockades in ultracold atomic gases and in thermal microcells, and ultralong range Rydberg molecules
  • 2009 - OSA Fellows For pioneering contributions to atom optics and cold quantum gases, especially for the realization of a chromium Bose-Einstein condensate, the first purely dipolar quantum gas.

Overview

Tilman Pfau is affiliated with the University of Stuttgart in Germany and works primarily in the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a particular focus on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Their research spans several subfields, including Artificial Intelligence, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Spectroscopy, and Condensed Matter Physics.

Their work often centers around topics such as Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates, Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research, Quantum Information and Cryptography, and Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics. Additional areas of focus include Quantum optics and atomic interactions, Spectroscopy and Laser Applications, and Strong Light-Matter Interactions.

Tilman Pfau's recent publications highlight experimental and theoretical advances in dipolar quantum gases and quantum information:

  • Dipolar physics: a review of experiments with magnetic quantum gases, 2022, Reports on Progress in Physics
  • Error budgeting for a controlled-phase gate with strontium-88 Rydberg atoms, 2022, Padua Research Archive (University of Padua)
  • Roton Excitations in an Oblate Dipolar Quantum Gas, 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • Density Fluctuations across the Superfluid-Supersolid Phase Transition in a Dipolar Quantum Gas, 2021, Physical Review X
  • Supersolidity in Two-Dimensional Trapped Dipolar Droplet Arrays, 2021, Physical Review Letters

The frequent co-authors working with Tilman Pfau include:

  • Robert Löw
  • Harald Kübler
  • Florian Meinert
  • Yannick Schellander
  • Fabian Munkes

Tilman Pfau has contributed numerous publications to well-known scientific venues. The most frequently published venues are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Physical review. A/Physical review, A
  • Physical Review Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Over the course of their career, Tilman Pfau has received several professional distinctions including the Herbert P. Broida Prize awarded by the American Physical Society in 2017. They were named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2014, recognized for observations of dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates, Rydberg blockades in ultracold atomic gases and thermal microcells, and ultralong range Rydberg molecules. Earlier, in 2009, they were honored as an OSA Fellow for pioneering contributions to atom optics and cold quantum gases, notably for realizing a chromium Bose-Einstein condensate, the first purely dipolar quantum gas.

Best Publications

  • Plasmonic analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency at the Drude damping limit.

    Na Liu;Lutz Langguth;Thomas Weiss;Jürgen Kästel

  • Bose-Einstein Condensation of Chromium

    Axel Griesmaier;Jörg Werner;Sven Hensler;Jürgen Stuhler

  • The physics of dipolar bosonic quantum gases

    Thierry Lahaye;Thierry Lahaye;Thierry Lahaye;C. Menotti;L. Santos;M. Lewenstein

  • Microwave electrometry with Rydberg atoms in a vapour cell using bright atomic resonances

    Jonathon A. Sedlacek;Arne Schwettmann;Harald Kübler;Harald Kübler;Robert Löw

  • Observation of Quantum Droplets in a Strongly Dipolar Bose Gas.

    Igor Ferrier-Barbut;Holger Kadau;Matthias Schmitt;Matthias Wenzel

  • Observation of Dipole-Dipole Interaction in a Degenerate Quantum Gas

    J. Stuhler;A. Griesmaier;T. Koch;M. Fattori

  • Observing the Rosensweig instability of a quantum ferrofluid

    Holger Kadau;Matthias Schmitt;Matthias Wenzel;Clarissa Wink

  • Strong dipolar effects in a quantum ferrofluid

    Thierry Lahaye;Tobias Koch;Bernd Fröhlich;Marco Fattori

  • Self-bound droplets of a dilute magnetic quantum liquid

    Matthias Schmitt;Matthias Wenzel;Fabian Böttcher;Igor Ferrier-Barbut

  • Stabilization of a purely dipolar quantum gas against collapse

    T. Koch;T. Lahaye;J. Metz;B. Fröhlich

  • Observation of ultralong-range Rydberg molecules

    Vera Bendkowsky;Björn Butscher;Johannes Nipper;James P. Shaffer;James P. Shaffer

  • Evidence for coherent collective Rydberg excitation in the strong blockade regime.

    Rolf Heidemann;Ulrich Raitzsch;Vera Bendkowsky;Björn Butscher

  • Tuning the dipolar interaction in quantum gases.

    Stefano Giovanazzi;Axel Görlitz;Tilman Pfau

  • Bose-Einstein condensation with magnetic dipole-dipole forces

    Krzysztof Góral;Kazimierz Rza̧żewski;Tilman Pfau

  • D-Wave Collapse and Explosion of a Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate

    T. Lahaye;J. Metz;B. Fröhlich;T. Koch

  • A quantum ferrofluid

    Thierry Lahaye;Tobias Koch;Bernd Froehlich;Marco Fattori

  • Measurement of the Wigner function of an ensemble of helium atoms

    Ch. Kurtsiefer;T. Pfau;J. Mlynek

  • Phase-coherent amplification of atomic matter waves

    S. Inouye;T. Pfau;S. Gupta;A. P. Chikkatur

  • An experimental and theoretical guide to strongly interacting Rydberg gases

    Robert Löw;Hendrik Weimer;Johannes Nipper;Jonathan B Balewski

  • Transient Supersolid Properties in an Array of Dipolar Quantum Droplets

    Fabian Böttcher;Jan-Niklas Schmidt;Matthias Wenzel;Jens Hertkorn

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang P. Schleich
Wolfgang P. Schleich University of Ulm
Wolfram H. P. Pernice
Wolfram H. P. Pernice University of Münster
Harald Fuchs
Harald Fuchs University of Münster
Harald Giessen
Harald Giessen University of Stuttgart
Maciej Lewenstein
Maciej Lewenstein Institute of Photonic Sciences
Edward R. Grant
Edward R. Grant University of British Columbia
Stefan Müller
Stefan Müller Goethe University Frankfurt
Jürgen H. Werner
Jürgen H. Werner University of Stuttgart
Na Liu
Na Liu University of Stuttgart
Paul S. Julienne
Paul S. Julienne University of Maryland, College Park

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