Nikolas Liebster receives Otto-Haxel-Award for Physics
Congratulations Nikolas! The Otto-Haxel-Award for Physics was presented for his outstanding doctoral thesis.
Aidelsburger Lab
Quantum information science with ultracold atoms in optical lattices and tweezer arrays
About us
We are an experimental team developing quantum simulators based on ultracold atoms in optical lattices and optical tweezer arrays. Our research focuses on topological physics, lattice gauge theories and out-of-equilibrium dynamics of strongly-interacting quantum many-body systems.
The group is jointly located at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching and the Faculty of Physics of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU).
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Our new paper on non-equilibrium quantum spin liquids is online!
In this work we prepare and study quantum spin liquids in 2D optical superlattices.
Nikolas Liebster has received the DPG SAMOP Dissertation Prize
Congratulations to Nikolas from our Cs team on his award!
Fast microscopy of cold Yb at LMU!
We obtained our first microscope images with 171Yb.
Selected publications
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Dynamical preparation of U(1) quantum spin liquids in an analogue quantum simulator
arXiv:2604.24744 (2026)
Strongly interacting Meissner phases in large bosonic flux ladders
Nature Physics 21, 895-901 (2025)
Real-space detection and manipulation of topological edge modes with ultracold atoms
Nature Physics 20, 1306-1312 (2024)