Publications

Dynamical preparation of U(1) quantum spin liquids in an analogue quantum simulator

Simon Karch, Melissa Will, Irene Prieto Rodriguez, Nikolas Liebster, SeungJung Huh, Michael Knap, Frank Pollmann, Clemens Kuhlenkamp, Immanuel Bloch, Monika Aidelsburger

arXiv:2604.24744 (2026)

arXiv Cs QGM

Extracting transport coefficients from local ground-state currents

Felix A. Palm, Alexander Impertro, Monika Aidelsburger, Nathan Goldman

arXiv:2510.19742 (2025)

arXiv Theory

Probing quantum many-body dynamics using subsystem Loschmidt echos

Simon Karch, Souvik Bandyopadhyay, Zheng-Hang Sun, Alexander Impertro, SeungJung Huh, Irene Prieto Rodríguez, Julian F Wienand, Wolfgang Ketterle, Markus Heyl, Anatoli Polkovnikov, Immanuel Bloch, Monika Aidelsburger

arXiv:2501.16995 (2025)

arXiv Cs QGM

Probing disorder-driven topological phase transitions via topological edge modes with ultracold atoms in Floquet-engineered honeycomb lattices

Alexander Hesse, Johannes Arceri, Moritz Hornung, Christoph Braun, Monika Aidelsburger

arXiv:2508.20154 (2025)

arXiv K hexagonal

Quantum simulation of fermionic non-Abelian lattice gauge theories in (2+1)D with built-in gauge protection

Gaia De Paciani, Lukas Homeier, Jad C. Halimeh, Monika Aidelsburger, Fabian Grusdt

Phys. Rev. A 113, 063327 (2026)

DOI arXiv Theory

Controlled pairing symmetries in a Fermi-Hubbard ladder with band flattening

J. P. Mendonça, S. Biswas, M. Dziurawiec, U. Bhattacharya, K. Jachymski, M. Aidelsburger, M. Lewenstein, M. M. Maśka, T. Grass

Phys. Rev. B 113, L241119 (2026)

DOI Theory

Determining the 3P0 excited-state tune-out wavelength of 174Yb in a triple-magic lattice

Tim O. Höhn, René A. Villela, Er Zu, Leonardo Bezzo, Ronen M. Kroeze, Monika Aidelsburger

PRX Quantum 7, 010303 (2026)

DOI Yb hybrid

Emergent interaction-induced topology in Bose-Hubbard ladders

David Wellnitz, Gustavo A. Domínguez-Castro, Thomas Bilitewski, Monika Aidelsburger, Ana Maria Rey, and Luis Santos

Phys. Rev. Res. 7, L012012 (2025)

DOI Theory

Isotope-agnostic motional ground-state cooling of neutral Yb atoms

Ronen M. Kroeze, René A. Villela, Er Zu, Tim O. Höhn, Monika Aidelsburger

Phys. Rev. Res. 7, L042061 (2025)

DOI Yb hybrid

Strongly interacting Meissner phases in large bosonic flux ladders

Alexander Impertro, SeungJung Huh, Simon Karch, Julian F. Wienand, Immanuel Bloch, Monika Aidelsburger

Nature Physics 21, 895-901 (2025)

DOI Cs QGM

Cold-atom quantum simulators of gauge theories

Jad C Halimeh, Monika Aidelsburger, Fabian Grusdt, Philipp Hauke, Bing Yang

Nature Phys. 21, 25-36 (2025)

DOI Theory

Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry: Summary of the Second Workshop

Adam Abdalla, Mahiro Abe, Sven Abend, Mouine Abidi, Monika Aidelsburger, et al

EPJ Quantum Technol. 12, 42 (2025)

DOI

Floquet topological phase transitions induced by uncorrelated or correlated disorder

Jun-Hui Zheng, Arijit Dutta, Monika Aidelsburger, Walter Hofstetter

Phys. Rev. B 109, 184201 (2024)

DOI Theory

Emergence of fluctuating hydrodynamics in chaotic quantum systems

Julian F. Wienand, Simon Karch, Alexander Impertro, Christian Schweizer, Ewan McCulloch, Romain Vasseur, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Monika Aidelsburger, Immanuel Bloch

Nature Physics 20, 1732-1737 (2024)

DOI Cs QGM

The cold-atom elevator: From edge-state injection to the preparation of fractional Chern insulators

Botao Wang, Monika Aidelsburger, Jean Dalibard, André Eckardt, Nathan Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 163402 (2024)

DOI Theory

Superconductivity in a Topological Lattice Model with Strong Repulsion

Rahul Sahay, Stefan Divic, Daniel E. Parker, Tomohiro Soejima, Sajant Anand, Johannes Hauschild, Monika Aidelsburger, Ashvin Vishwanath, Shubhayu Chatterjee, Norman Y. Yao, Michael P. Zaletel

Phys. Rev. B 110, 195126 (2024)

DOI Theory

Floquet Flux Attachment in Cold Atomic Systems

Helia Kamal, Jack Kemp, Yin-Chen He, Yohei Fuji, Monika Aidelsburger, Peter Zoller, Norman Y. Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 163403 (2024)

DOI Theory

Local readout and control of current and kinetic energy operators in optical lattices

Alexander Impertro, Simon Karch, Julian F. Wienand, SeungJung Huh, Christian Schweizer, Immanuel Bloch, Monika Aidelsburger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 063401 (2024)

DOI Cs QGM

The anomalous Floquet Anderson insulator in a continuously driven optical lattice

Arijit Dutta, Efe Sen, Jun-Hui Zheng, Monika Aidelsburger, Walter Hofstetter

Phys. Rev. B 109, L121114 (2024)

DOI Theory

Real-space detection and manipulation of topological edge modes with ultracold atoms

Christoph Braun, Raphaël Saint-Jalm, Alexander Hesse, Johannes Arceri, Immanuel Bloch, Monika Aidelsburger

Nature Physics 20, 1306-1312 (2024)

DOI K hexagonal

Diagnosing quantum transport from wave function snapshots

Devendra Singh Bhakuni, Roberto Verdel, Cristiano Muzzi, Riccardo Andreoni, Monika Aidelsburger, Marcello Dalmonte

Phys. Rev. B 110, 144204 (2024)

DOI Theory

Frustrated extended Bose-Hubbard model and deconfined quantum critical points with optical lattices at the anti-magic wavelength

Niccolò Baldelli, Cesar R. Cabrera, Sergi Julià-Farré, Monika Aidelsburger, Luca Barbiero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 153401 (2024)

DOI Theory

Preparing and Analyzing Solitons in the sine-Gordon Model with Quantum Gas Microscopes

Elisabeth Wybo, Alvise Bastianello, Monika Aidelsburger, Immanuel Bloch, Michael Knap

PRX Quantum 4, 030308 (2023)

DOI Theory

Ab initio derivation of lattice gauge theory dynamics for cold gases in optical lattices

Federica Maria Surace, Pierre Fromholz, Nelson Darkwah Oppong, Marcello Dalmonte, Monika Aidelsburger

PRX Quantum 4, 020330 (2023)

DOI Theory

Engineering and probing non-Abelian chiral spin liquids using periodically driven ultracold atoms

Bo-Ye Sun, Nathan Goldman, Monika Aidelsburger, Marin Bukov

PRX Quantum 4, 020329 (2023)

DOI Theory

Exploring the Regime of Fragmentation in Strongly Tilted Fermi-Hubbard Chains

Thomas Kohlert, Sebastian Scherg, Pablo Sala, Frank Pollmann, Bharath Hebbe Madhusudhana, Immanuel Bloch, Monika Aidelsburger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 010201 (2023)

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An unsupervised deep learning algorithm for single-site reconstruction in quantum gas microscopes

Alexander Impertro, Julian F. Wienand, Sophie Häfele, Hendrik von Raven, Scott Hubele, Till Klostermann, Cesar R. Cabrera, Immanuel Bloch, Monika Aidelsburger

Commun. Phys. 6, 166 (2023)

DOI Cs QGM

State-dependent potentials for the 1S0 and 3P0 clock states of neutral ytterbium atoms

Tim O. Höhn, Etienne Staub, Guillaume Brochier, Nelson Darkwah Oppong, Monika Aidelsburger

Phys. Rev. A 108, 053325 (2023)

DOI Yb hybrid

Thouless pumping and topology

Roberta Citro, Monika Aidelsburger

Nature Reviews Physics 5, 87-101 (2023)

DOI Theory

Thouless Pumps and Bulk-Boundary Correspondence in Higher-Order Symmetry-Protected Topological Phases

Julian F. Wienand, Friederike Horn, Monika Aidelsburger, Julian Bibo, Fabian Grusdt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 246602 (2022)

DOI Theory

Fast long-distance transport of cold cesium atoms

Till Klostermann, Cesar R Cabrera, Hendrik von Raven, Julian F Wienand, Christian Schweizer, Immanuel Bloch, Monika Aidelsburger

Phys. Rev. A 105, 043319 (2022)

DOI Cs QGM

Stabilizing Lattice Gauge Theories Through Simplified Local Pseudo Generators

Jad C. Halimeh, Lukas Homeier, Christian Schweizer, Monika Aidelsburger, Philipp Hauke, Fabian Grusdt

Phys. Rev. Research 4, 033120 (2022)

DOI Theory

Topologische Materie -- ultrakalt

Monika Aidelsburger and Christof Weitenberg

Physik Journal 20, 46-51 (2021)

Observing non-ergodicity due to kinetic constraints in tilted Fermi-Hubbard chains

Sebastian Scherg, Thomas Kohlert, Pablo Sala, Frank Pollmann, Bharath Hebbe Madhusudhana, Immanuel Bloch, M. Aidelsburger

Nature Commun. 12, 4490 (2021)

DOI

Bosonic Pfaffian State in the Hofstadter-Bose-Hubbard Model

Felix A. Palm, Maximilian Buser, Julian Léonard, Monika Aidelsburger, Ulrich Schollwöck, Fabian Grusdt

Phys. Rev. B 103, 161101 (2021)

DOI Theory

Z2 lattice gauge theories and Kitaev's toric code: A scheme for analog quantum simulation

Lukas Homeier, Christian Schweizer, Monika Aidelsburger, Arkady Fedorov, Fabian Grusdt

Phys. Rev. B 104, 085138 (2021)

DOI Theory

Benchmarking a novel efficient numerical method for localized 1D Fermi-Hubbard systems on a quantum simulator

Bharath H. M., Sebastian Scherg, Thomas Kohlert, Immanuel Bloch, Monika Aidelsburger

PRX Quantum 2, 040325 (2021)

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Cold atoms meet lattice gauge theory

Monika Aidelsburger, Luca Barbiero, Alejandro Bermudez, Titas Chanda, Alexandre Dauphin, Daniel González-Cuadra, Przemysław R. Grzybowski, Simon Hands, Fred Jendrzejewski, Johannes Jünemann, Gediminas Juzeliunas, Valentin Kasper, Angelo Piga, Shi-Ju Ran, Matteo Rizzi, Gérman Sierra, Luca Tagliacozzo, Emanuele Tirrito, Torsten V. Zache, Jakub Zakrzewski, Erez Zohar, Maciej Lewenstein

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 380, 20210064 (2021)

DOI Theory

Realization of anomalous Floquet topological systems with ultracold atoms

K. Wintersperger, C. Braun, F. N. Ünal, A. Eckardt, M. Di Liberto, N. Goldman, I. Bloch, M. Aidelsburger

Nature Physics 16, 1058-1063 (2020)

DOI K hexagonal

Parametric instabilities of interacting bosons in periodically-driven 1D optical lattices

K. Wintersperger, M. Bukov, J. Näger, S. Lellouch, E. Demler, U. Schneider, I. Bloch, N. Goldman, M. Aidelsburger

Phys. Rev. X 10, 011030 (2020)

DOI K hexagonal

The rotor Jackiw-Rebbi model: a cold-atom approach to chiral symmetry restoration and quark confinement

D. González-Cuadra, A. Dauphin, M. Aidelsburger, M. Lewenstein, A. Bermudez

PRX Quantum 1, 020321 (2020)

DOI Theory

Floquet approach to Z2 lattice gauge theories with ultracold atoms in optical lattices

Christian Schweizer, Fabian Grusdt, Moritz Berngruber, Luca Barbiero, Eugene Demler, Nathan Goldman, Immanuel Bloch, Monika Aidelsburger

Nature Physics 15, 1168-1173 (2019)

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Observation of many-body localization in a one-dimensional system with single-particle mobility edge

T. Kohlert, S. Scherg, X. Li, H. P. Lüschen, S. Das Sarma, I. Bloch, M. Aidelsburger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 170403 (2019)

DOI

Topological proximity effects in a Haldane-graphene bilayer system

Peng Cheng, Philipp W. Klein, Kirill Plekhanov, Klaus Sengstock, Monika Aidelsburger, Christof Weitenberg, Karyn Le Hur

Phys. Rev. B 100, 081107 (2019)

DOI Theory

Coupling ultracold matter to dynamical gauge fields in optical lattices: From flux-attachment to Z2 lattice gauge theories

L. Barbiero, C. Schweizer, M. Aidelsburger, E. Demler, N. Goldman, F. Grusdt

Science Advances 5, eaav7444 (2019)

DOI Theory

Sound propagation in a uniform superfluid two-dimensional Bose gas

J. L. Ville, R. Saint-Jalm, É. Le Cerf, M. Aidelsburger, S. Nascimbène, J. Dalibard, J. Beugnon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 145301 (2018)

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Non-Equilibrium Mass Transport in the 1D Fermi-Hubbard Model

S. Scherg, T. Kohlert, J. Herbrych, J. Stolpp, P. Bordia, U. Schneider, F. Heidrich-Meisner, I. Bloch, M. Aidelsburger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 130402 (2018)

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Resonant-light diffusion in a disordered atomic layer

R. Saint-Jalm, M. Aidelsburger, J. L. Ville, L. Corman, Z. Hadzibabic, D. Delande, S. Nascimbène, N. Cherroret, J. Dalibard, J.Beugnon

Phys. Rev. A 97, 061801(R) (2018)

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Topological charge pumping in the interacting bosonic Rice-Mele model

A. L. C. Hayward, C. Schweizer, M. Lohse, M. Aidelsburger, F. Heidrich-Meisner

Phys. Rev. B 98, 245148 (2018)

DOI Theory

Artificial gauge fields in materials and engineered systems

M. Aidelsburger, S. Nascimbène, N. Goldman

C. R. Physique 19, 394-432 (2018)

DOI

Artificial gauge fields and topology with ultracold atoms in optical lattices

M. Aidelsburger

J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 51, 193001 (2018)

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Loading and compression of a single 2D Bose gas in an optical accordion

J. L. Ville, T. Bienaimé, R. Saint-Jalm, L. Corman, M. Aidelsburger, L. Chomaz, K. Kleinlein, D. Perconte, S. Nascimbène, J. Dalibard, J. Beugnon

Phys. Rev. A 95, 013632 (2017)

DOI

Transmission of near-resonant light through a dense slab of cold atoms

L. Corman, J. L. Ville, R. Saint-Jalm, M. Aidelsburger, T. Bienaimé, S. Nascimbène, J. Dalibard, J. Beugnon

Phys. Rev. A 96, 053629 (2017)

DOI

Relaxation dynamics in the merging of N independent condensates

M. Aidelsburger, J. L. Ville, T. Bienaimé, R. Saint-Jalm, S. Nascimbène, J. Dalibard, J. Beugnon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 190403 (2017)

DOI

A Thouless Quantum Pump with Ultracold Bosonic Atoms in an Optical Superlattice

M. Lohse, C. Schweizer, O. Zilberberg, M. Aidelsburger, I. Bloch

Nature Physics 12, 350-354 (2016)

DOI

Cold atoms twisting spin and momentum

M. Aidelsburger

Science 354, 35-36 (2016)

DOI

Methods for detecting charge fractionalization and winding numbers in an interacting fermionic ladder

L. Mazza, M. Aidelsburger, H.-H. Tu, N. Goldman, M. Burrello

New J. Phys. 17, 105001 (2015)

DOI Theory

Periodically-driven quantum matter: the case of resonant modulations

N. Goldman, J. Dalibard, M. Aidelsburger, N. R. Cooper

Phys. Rev. A 91, 033632 (2015)

DOI Theory

Quanten-Hall-Physik mit ultrakalten Atomen

M. Aidelsburger

Physik in unserer Zeit 46, 111-112 (2015)

DOI

Measuring the Chern number of Hofstadter bands with ultracold atoms

M. Aidelsburger, M. Lohse, C. Schweizer, M. Atala, J. T. Barreiro, S. Nascimbène, N. R. Cooper, I. Bloch, N. Goldman

Nature Physics 11, 162-166 (2015)

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Observation of chiral currents with ultracold atoms in bosonic ladders

M. Atala, M. Aidelsburger, M. Lohse, J. T. Barreiro, B. Paredes, I. Bloch

Nature Physics 10, 588-593 (2014)

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Direct measurement of the Zak phase in topological Bloch bands

M. Atala*, M. Aidelsburger*, J. T. Barreiro, D. Abanin, T. Kitagawa, E. Demler, I. Bloch

Nature Physics 9, 795-800 (2013)

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Realization of the Hofstadter Hamiltonian with ultracold atoms in optical lattices

M. Aidelsburger, M. Atala, M. Lohse, J. T. Barreiro, B. Paredes, I. Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 185301 (2013)

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Experimental realization of strong effective magnetic fields in optical superlattice potentials

M. Aidelsburger, M. Atala, S. Nascimbène, S. Trotzky, Y.-A. Chen, I. Bloch

Appl. Phys. B 113, 1 (2013)

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Experimental realization of plaquette resonating valence-bond states with ultracold atoms in optical superlattices

S. Nascimbène, Y.-A. Chen, M. Atala, M. Aidelsburger, S. Trotzky, B. Paredes, I. Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 205301 (2012)

DOI

Controlling Correlated Tunneling and Superexchange Interactions with ac-Driven Optical Lattices

Y.-A. Chen, S. Nascimbène, M. Aidelsburger, M. Atala, S. Trotzky, I. Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 210405 (2011)

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Experimental realization of strong effective magnetic fields in an optical lattice

M. Aidelsburger, M. Atala, S. Nascimbène, S. Trotzky, Y.-A. Chen, I. Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 255301 (2011)

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Single-electron pulses for ultrafast diffraction

M. Aidelsburger, F. O. Kirchner, F. Krausz, P. Baum

PNAS 107, 19714-19719 (2010)

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