Prof. Dr. Matthias Weidemüller

Physikalisches Institut
Universität Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 226
69120  Heidelberg
Germany

Phone   +49-(0)6221-54-19470
Fax       +49-(0)6221-54-19545
Positions
2019 - present
Vice-Rector Innovation and Transfer at Ruprecht-Karl University Heidelberg
2008 - present
Full Professor (Chair) for Experimental Physics at the Ruprecht-Karl University Heidelberg
2013 - 2018
QianRen Jihua (1000Talent Plan) Chair Professor (part-time) at the Hefei National Institute for the Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei and Shanghai, China
2003 - 2008
Full Professor (Chair) for Experimental Physics at the Albert-Ludwig University Freiburg
2004 - 2006
Guest professor, Optics and Photonics Center of the University of São Paulo
2001/2002
Guest professor, University of Innsbruck
2000 - 2003
Research Group Leader "Laser Cooling Group", Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg
2000
Habilitation in Physics at the Ruprecht-Karl University Heidelberg
1997 - 2000
Researcher, Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg (Prof. D. Schwalm/R. Grimm)
1995 - 1997
Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow, University of Amsterdam and FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (Prof. J.T.M. Walraven)
Education
1995
Doctorate in Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilian University München
1992 - 1995
Researcher, Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching (Prof. T.W. Hänsch)
1990/1991
Guest Scientist, Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel de l´Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (Prof. S. Haroche)
1990
Diplom in Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilian University München
1987 / 1988
Trainee, Research Centers of Siemens, Erlangen, and Asea Brown Boveri, Baden near Zürich
1984 - 1990
Study of physics and philosophy, University of Bonn and University of München
Professional Activities
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society
  • Founding Director, Heidelberg Center for Quantum Dynamics, Heidelberg University (2012-2015)
  • Fellow of the Marsilius Kolleg Heidelberg (2012/13)
  • Dean, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Heidelberg University (2015-2017, Deputy Dean 2012 - 2015)
  • Speaker, Research Council Field of Focus 2, Heidelberg University (2012 - 2015)
  • Managing Director, Physics Institute, Heidelberg University (2010-2011, Deputy Director since 2012)
  • Deputy Dean and Dean for Studies, Department of Physics and Mathematics, University of Freiburg (2006-2008)
  • Member, Editorial Board of Physical Review X (since 2016)
  • Member, Editorial Board of the European Physical Journal ST (since 2014)
  • Member, Editorial Board of the European Physical Journal D (2005 - 2014)
  • Elected Member, Council of the German Physical Society (since 2018)
  • Member, Stern-Gerlach Prize Committee, German Physical Society (since 2017)
  • Chairman, Section "Atoms, Molecules, Quantum Optics and Plasmas", German Physical Society (2011 - 2015)
  • Chairman, Division "Quantum Optics and Photonics", German Physical Society (2006-2008, Vice-Chairman 2004-2006)
  • Coordinator, EU ITN "COHERENCE - Cooperativity in Highly Excited Rydberg Ensembles – Control and Entanglement"
  • Coordinator, Collaborative Research Project "QUDIPMOL - Quantum-degenerate dipolar gases of bialkali molecules" within the ESF EUROCORES "Cold Quantum Matter"
  • Member, General Physics Advisory Committee of the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) (2006-2012)
  • Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Research Programme "Coherent Processes in Complex Structures" (funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg, 2004-2007)
  • Member, Steering Committee ESF Programme "Collisions in Atom Traps" (2004-2006)
  • Organizer and co-organizer of international workshops and conferences (Selection: “Current Trends in Atomic Physics“ (Les Houches 2016), “Rydberg Physics with Two-Electron Systems” (Hamburg 2015), “Sino-German Symposium on Quantum Information and Quantum Simulation” (Heidelberg, 2015), German-Japanese Symposium on Laser Science (Heidelberg, 2014),“Rydberg Gases and Ultracold Plasmas” (Harvard, 2009)
  • Vertrauensdozent, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (2005-2013)

Publications by Matthias Weidemüller

2022Canzhu Tan, Xiaodong Lin, Yabing Zhou, Y. H. Jiang, Matthias Weidemüller, Bing Zhu, Dynamics of position disordered Ising spins with a soft-core potential, Phys. Rev. B 105, 104204 (2022)

Fachao Hu, Canzhu Tan, Yuhai Jiang, Matthias Weidemüller, Bing Zhu, Observation of photon recoil effects in single-beam absorption spectroscopy with an ultracold strontium gas, Chin. Phys. B 31, 016702 (2022)

P. Scholl, H.J. Williams, G. Bornet, F. Wallner, D. Barredo, T. Lahaye, L. Henriet, A. Signoles, C. Hainaut, T. Franz, S. Geier, A. Tebben, A. Salzinger, G. Z\rn, M. Weidemüller, A. Browaeys, Microwave-engineering of programmable XXZ Hamiltonians in arrays of Rydberg atoms, Phys. Rev. X Quantum 3, 020303 (2022)

Philipp Schultzen, Titus Franz, Clément Hainaut, Sebastian Geier, Andre Salzinger, Annika Tebben, Gerhard Zürn, Martin Gärttner, Matthias Weidemüller, Semiclassical simulations predict glassy dynamics for disordered Heisenberg models, to appear in Phys. Rev. B Letter (arXiv:2107.13314) (2022)

Philipp Schultzen, Titus Franz, Sebastian Geier, Andre Salzinger, Annika Tebben, Clément Hainaut, Gerhard Zürn, Matthias Weidemüller, Martin Gärttner, Glassy quantum dynamics of disordered Ising spins, Phys. Rev. B 105, L020201 (2022)

Saba Zia Hassan, Jonas Tauch, Milaim Kas, Markus Nötzold, Henry López Carrera, Eric S. Endres, Roland Wester, Matthias Weidemüller, Associative detachment in anion-atom reactions involving a dipole-bound electron, Nat. Comm. 13, 818 (2022)

Saba Zia Hassan, Jonas Tauch, Milaim Kas, Markus Nötzold, Roland Wester, Matthias Weidemüller, Quantum state-dependent anion-neutral detachment processes, J. Chem. Phys. 156, 094304 (2022)

V. Bharti, S. Sugawa, M. Mizoguchi, M. Kunimi, Y. Zhang, S. de Léséleuc, T. Tomita, T. Franz, M. Weidemüller, K. Ohmori, Ultrafast Many-Body Dynamics in an Ultracold Rydberg-Excited Atomic Mott Insulator, arXiv:2201.09590 (2022)

2021A. Signoles, T. Franz, R. Ferracini Alves, M. Gärttner, S. Whitlock, G. Zürn, M. Weidemüller, Observation of glassy dynamics in a disordered quantum spin system, Phys. Rev. X 11, 011011 (2021)

Annika Tebben, Clément Hainaut, Andre Salzinger, Sebastian Geier, Titus Franz, Thomas Pohl, Martin Gärttner, Gerhard Zürn, Matthias Weidemüller, Nonlinear absorption in interacting Rydberg electromagnetically-induced-transparency spectra on two-photon resonance, Phys. Rev. A 103, 063710 (2021)

Sebastian Geier, Nithiwadee Thaicharoen, Clément Hainaut, Titus Franz, Andre Salzinger, Annika Tebben, David Grimshandl, Gerhard Zürn, Matthias Weidemüller, Floquet Hamiltonian Engineering of an Isolated Many-Body Spin System, Science 374, 1149 (2021)

Christiane von Stutterheim, Matthias Weidemüller, Was die Welt zusammenhält: Babel und Bubbles, Ruperto Carola Forschungsmagazin 18, 6-15 (2021)

2020 Junyang Yuan, Yixuan Ma, Renyuan Li, Huanyu Ma, Yizhu Zhang, Difa Ye, Zhenjie Shen, Tianmin Yan, Xincheng Wang, Matthias Weidemüller, Yuhai Jiang, Momentum Spectroscopy for Multiple Ionization of Cold Rubidium in the Elliptically Polarized Laser Field, Chin. Phys. Lett. 37, 053201 (2020)

Binh Tran, Michael Rautenberg, Manuel Gerken, Eleonora Lippi, Bing Zhu, Juris Ulmanis, Moritz Drescher, Manfred Salmhofer, Tilman Enss, Matthias Weidemüller, Fermions meet two bosons - the heteronuclear Efimov effect revisited, Braz. J. Phys. 51, 316 (2020)

Charles Möhl, Nicholas L.R. Spong, Yuechun Jiao, Chloe So, Teodora Ilieva, Matthias Weidemüller, Charles S. Adams, Photon correlation transients in a weakly blockaded Rydberg ensemble, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 53, 084004 (2020)

Junyang Yuan, Shiwei Liu, Xincheng Wang, Zhenjie Shen, Yixuan Ma, Huanyu Ma, Qiuxiang Meng, Tian-Min Yan, Yizhu Zhang, Alexander Dorn, Matthias Weidemüller, Difa Ye, Yuhai Jiang, Ellipticity-dependent sequential over-barrier ionization of cold rubidium, Phys. Rev. A 102, 043112 (2020)

Marcel Neugebauer, Laurin Fischer, Alexander Jäger, Stefanie Czischek, Selim Jochim, Matthias Weidemüller, Martin Gärttner, Neural network quantum state tomography in a two-qubit experiment, Phys. Rev. A 102, 042604 (2020)

Markus Nötzold, Saba Zia Hassan, Jonas Tauch, Eric Enerds, Roland Wester, Matthias Weidemüller, Thermometry in a Multipole Ion Trap, Appl. Sci. 10, 5264 (2020)

Matthias Weidemüller, Kollektiv am kritischen Punkt, Physik Journal 19, 24 (2020)

Michiteru Mizoguchi, Yichi Zhang, Masaya Kunimi, Akira Tanaka, Shuntaro Takeda, Nobuyuki Takei, Vineet Bharti, Kuniaki Koyasu, Tetsuo Kishimoto, Dieter Jaksch, Alexander Glaetzle, Martin Kiffner, Guido Masella, Guido Pupillo, Matthias Weidemüller, Kenji Ohmori, Ultrafast creation of overlapping Rydberg electrons in an atomic BEC and Mott-insulator lattice, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 253201 (2020)

Miguel Ferreira Cao, Vladislav Gavryusev, Titus Franz, Renato Ferracini Alves, Adrien Signoles, Gerhard Zürn, Matthias Weidemüller, Depletion imaging of Rydberg atoms in cold atomic gases, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 53, 084005 (2020)

Tilman Enss, Binh Tran, Michael Rautenberg, Manuel Gerken, Eleonora Lippi, Moritz Drescher, Bing Zhu, Matthias Weidemüller, Manfred Salmhofer, Scattering of two heavy Fermi polarons: resonances and quasi-bound states, Phys. Rev. A 102, 063321 (2020)

David Grimshandl, Manuel Gerken, Eleonora Lippi, Binh Tran, Saba Zia Hassan, Jan Hendrik Becher, Selim Jochim, Matthias Weidemüller, Gunnar Föhner, Steffen Brucker, Frank Schumacher, Wolfgang Beldermann, Venelin Angelov, Stefan Hetzel, Stefan Hummel, Simon Muley, Bernd Windelband, Christoph Eisner, Marco Zugaj, Philipp Bayer, Dario Ernst, Marcel Gehrlein, Helmut Jacob, Jens Pfeifle, Andreas Treskatsch, Martin Ulmschneider, Philipp M. Preiss, The HDvent Emergency Ventilator System, arXiv:2012.13005 (2020)

2019 Couturier, Luc, Nosske, Ingo, Hu, Fachao, Tan, Canzhu, Qiao, Chang, Jiang, Y. H., Chen, Peng, Weidemüller, Matthias, Measurement of the strontium triplet Rydberg series by depletion spectroscopy of ultracold atoms, Phys. Rev. A 99, 022503 (2019)

Hu, Fachao, Nosske, Ingo, Couturier, Luc, Tan, Canzhu, Qiao, Chang, Chen, Peng, Jiang, Y. H., Zhu, Bing, Weidemüller, Matthias, Analyzing a single-laser repumping scheme for efficient loading of a strontium magneto-optical trap, Phys. Rev. A 99, 033422 (2019)

R. Li, J. Yuan, X. Wang, X. Hou, S. Zhang, Z. Zhu, Y. Ma, Q. Gao, Z. Wang, T.M. Yan, C. Qin, S. Li, Y. Zhang, M. Weidemüller, Y.H. Jiang, Recoil-ion momentum spectroscopy for cold rubidium in a strong femtosecond laser field, Journal of Instrumentation 14, P02022 (2019)

Tebben, Annika, Hainaut, Clément, Walther, Valentin, Zhang, Yong-Chang, Zürn, Gerhard, Pohl, Thomas, Weidemüller, Matthias, Blockade-induced resonant enhancement of the optical nonlinearity in a Rydberg medium, Phys. Rev. A 100, 063812 (2019)

Manuel Gerken, Binh Tran, Stephan Häfner, Eberhard Tiemann, Bing Zhu, Matthias Weidemüller, Observation of dipolar splittings in high-resolution atom-loss spectroscopy of 6Li p-wave Feshbach resonances, Phys. Rev. A (Rapid Comm.) 100, 050701 (2019) [pdf]

Qiao, Chang, Tan, CZ, Hu, FC, Couturier, Luc, Nosske, Ingo, Chen, Peng, Jiang, YH, Zhu, Bing, Weidemüller, Matthias, An ultrastable laser system at 689 nm for cooling and trapping of strontium, Applied Physics B 125, 215 (2019)

S. Whitlock, H. Wildhagen, H. Weimer, M. Weidemüller, Diffusive to non-ergodic dipolar transport in a dissipative atomic medium, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 213606 (2019)

Bing Zhu, Stephan Häfner, Binh Tran, Manuel Gerken, Juris Ulmanis, Eberhard Tiemann, Matthias Weidemüller, High partial-wave Feshbach resonances in an ultracold 6Li-133Cs mixture, arXiv:1912.01264 (2019)

Bing Zhu, Stephan Häfner, Binh Tran, Manuel Gerken, Juris Ulmanis, Eberhard Tiemann, Matthias Weidemüller, Spin-rotation coupling in p-wave Feshbach resonances, arXiv:1910.12011 (2019)

Matthias Weidemüller, Temperaturen im Keller. Das kälteste Gas des Universums, Ruperto Carola Forschungsmagazin (2019)

2018 Alcala, Diego A., Urban, Gregor, Weidemüller, Matthias, Carr, Lincoln D., Macroscopic quantum escape of Bose-Einstein condensates: Analysis of experimentally realizable quasi-one-dimensional traps, Phys. Rev. A 98, 023619 (2018)

Orioli, A. Pineiro, Signoles, A., Wildhagen, H., Günter, G., Berges, J., Whitlock, S., Weidemüller, M., Relaxation of an Isolated Dipolar-Interacting Rydberg Quantum Spin System, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 063601 (2018)

Couturier, Luc, Nosske, Ingo, Hu, Fachao, Tan, Canzhu, Qiao, Chang, Jiang, YH, Chen, Peng, Weidemüller, Matthias, Laser frequency stabilization using a commercial wavelength meter, Review of Scientific Instruments 89, 043103 (2018)

Ohmori, Kenji, Pupillo, Guido, Thywissen, Joseph H., Weidemüller, Matthias, Editorial - Special issue on addressing many-body problems with cold atoms and molecules, Journal of Physics B51, 020201 (2018)

Sebastian Lackner, Andreas Spitz, Matthias Weidemüller, Michael Gertz, Efficient anti-community detection in complex networks, Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, 1-12 (2018)

2017 Kenji Ohmori, Guido Pupillo, Joseph H Thywissen, Matthias Weidemüller, Special issue on addressing many-body problems with cold atoms and molecules, Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 51, 020201 (2017)

Nosske, Ingo, Couturier, Luc, Hu, Fachao, Tan, Canzhu, Qiao, Chang, Blume, Jan, Jiang, Y. H., Chen, Peng, Weidemüller, Matthias, Two-dimensional magneto-optical trap as a source for cold strontium atoms, Phys. Rev. A 96, 053415 (2017)

S. Häfner, J. Ulmanis, E. D. Kuhnle, Yujun Wang, Chris H. Greene, M. Weidemüller, Role of the intraspecies scattering length in the Efimov scenario with large mass difference, Phys. Rev. A 95, 062708 (2017) [pdf]

B. Höltkemeier, J. Glässel, H. Lopez, M. Weidemüller, A dense gas of laser-cooled atoms for hybrid atom-ion trapping, Applied Physics B123, 51 (2017)

Matthias Weidemüller, Rydbergs Baukasten für die Quantensimulation, Physik Journal 16, 22 (2017)

2016 B. Höltkemeier, P. Weckesser, H. Lopez, M. Weidemüller, Buffer-Gas Cooling of a Single Ion in a Multipole Radio Frequency Trap Beyond the Critical Mass Ratio, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 233003 (2016)

B. Höltkemeier, P. Weckesser, H. Lopez, M. Weidemüller, Dynamics of a single trapped ion immersed in a buffer gas, Phys. Rev. A 94, 062703 (2016)

J. Ulmanis, S. Häfner, E. D. Kuhnle, M. Weidemüller, Heteronuclear Efimov resonances in ultracold quantum gases, National Science Review 3, 174 (2016) [pdf]

J. Ulmanis, S. Häfner, R. Pires, E. D. Kuhnle, Yujun Wang, Chris H. Greene, M. Weidemüller, Heteronuclear Efimov scenario with positive intraspecies scattering length, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 153201 (2016) [pdf]

J. Ulmanis, S. Häfner, R. Pires, F. Werner, D. S. Petrov, E. D. Kuhnle, M. Weidemüller, Universal three-body recombination and Efimov resonances in an ultracold Li-Cs mixture, Phys. Rev. A 93, 022707 (2016) [pdf]

Nobuyuki Takei, Christian Sommer, Claudiu Genes, Guido Pupillo, Haruka Goto, Kuniaki Koyasu, Hisashi Chiba, Matthias Weidemüller, Kenji Ohmori, Direct observation of ultrafast many-body electron dynamics in an ultracold Rydberg gas, Nature Comm. 7, 13449 (2016)

V. Gavryusev, A. Signoles, M. Ferreira-Cao, G. Zürn, C. S. Hofmann, G. Günter, H. Schempp, M. Robert-de-Saint-Vincent, S. Whitlock, M. Weidemüller, Density matrix reconstruction of three-level atoms via Rydberg electromagnetically induced transparency, Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 49, 164002 (2016) [pdf]

2015 H. Lopez, B. Höltkemeier, J. Glässel, P. Weckesser, M. Weidemüller, T. Best, E. Endres, R. Wester, Sympathetic cooling of OH- ions using ultracold Rb atoms in a dark SPOT, Proceedings of the International School of Physics Enrico Fermi 189 (2015)

H. Schempp, G. Günter, S. Wüster, M. Weidemüller, S. Whitlock, Correlated Exciton Transport in Rydberg-Dressed-Atom Spin Chains, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 093002 (2015) [pdf]

J. Ulmanis, S. Häfner, R. Pires, E. D. Kuhnle, M. Weidemüller, E. Tiemann, Universality of weakly bound dimers and Efimov trimers close to Li - Cs Feshbach resonances, New J. Phys. 17, 055009 (2015)

2014 H. Schempp, G. Günter, M. Robert-de-Saint-Vincent, C. S. Hofmann, D. Breyel, A. Komnik, D. W. Schönleber, M. Gärttner, J. Evers, S. Whitlock, M. Weidemüller, Full Counting Statistics of Laser Excited Rydberg Aggregates in a One-Dimensional Geometry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 013002 (2014)

R. Pires, J. Ulmanis, S. Häfner, M. Repp, A. Arias, E.D. Kuhnle, M. Weidemüller, Observation of Efimov Resonances in a Mixture with Extreme Mass Imbalance, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 250404 (2014) [pdf]

R. Pires, M. Repp, J. Ulmanis, E. D. Kuhnle M., Weidemüller, T. G. Tiecke, C. H. Greene, B. P. Ruzic, J. L. Bohn, E. Tiemann, Analyzing Feshbach resonances: A 6Li-133Cs case study, Phys. Rev. A 90, 012710 (2014) [pdf]

C. S. Hofmann, G. Günter, H. Schempp, N. M. L. Müller, A. Faber, H. Busche, M. Robert-de-Saint-Vincent, S. Whitlock, M. Weidemüller, An experimental approach for investigating many-body phenomena in Rydberg-interacting quantum systems, Frontiers of Physics 9, 571-586 (2014)

Matthias Weidemüller, Das System und der Rest. Grenzen der Grenzziehung, Ruperto Carola Forschungsmagazin (2014)

2013 G. Günter, H. Schempp, M. Robert-de-Saint-Vincent, V. Gavryusev, S. Helmrich, C.S. Hofmann, S. Whitlock, M. Weidemüller, Observing the Dynamics of Dipole-Mediated Energy Transport by Interaction-Enhanced Imaging, Science 342, 954-956 (2013)

Jochen Mikosch, Jiaxu Zhang, Sebastian Trippel, Christoph Eichhorn, Rico Otto, Rui Sun, Wibe A. de Jong, Matthias Weidemüller, William L. Hase, Roland Wester, Indirect Dynamics in a Highly Exoergic Substitution Reaction, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135, 4250-4259 (2013) [pdf]

M. Repp, R. Pires, J. Ulmanis, R. Heck, E. D. Kuhnle, M. a Weidemüller, E. Tiemann, Observation of interspecies 6Li-133Cs Feshbach resonances, Phys. Rev. A 87, 010701 (2013) [pdf]

M. Robert-de-Saint-Vincent, C. S. Hofmann, H. Schempp, G. a Günter, S. Whitlock, M. Weidemüller, Spontaneous avalanche ionization of a strongly blockaded Rydberg a gas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 045004 (2013) [pdf]

Matthias Weidemüller, Atomic Interactions at a Distance, Physics 6, 71 (2013) [pdf]

Matthias Weidemüller, Quantum physics: Spooky action gets collective, Nature 498, 438 (2013)

Simone Götz, Bastian Höltkemeier, Thomas Amthor, Matthias a Weidemüller, Photoionization of optically trapped ultracold atoms with a high-power a light-emitting diode, Review of Scientific Instruments 84, 043107 (2013) [pdf]

C. S. Hofmann, G. Günter, H. Schempp, M. Robert-de-Saint-Vincent, M. Gärttner, J. Evers, S. Whitlock, M. Weidemüller, Sub-Poissonian Statistics of Rydberg-Interacting Dark-State Polaritons, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 203601 (2013) [pdf]

2012 D. Pfaff, A. Hagelgans, K. Bretzer, M. Weidemüller, A stand-alone interactive physics showcase, The Physics Teacher 50, 235 (2012)

G. Günter, M. Robert-de-Saint-Vincent, H. Schempp, C. S. a Hofmann, S. Whitlock, M. Weidemüller, Interaction enhanced imaging of individual atoms embedded in dense a atomic gases, Phys. Rev. Lett 108, 013002 (2012) [pdf]

J. Deiglmayr, A. Göritz, T. Best, M. Weidemüller, a R. Wester, Reactive collisions of trapped anions with ultracold atoms, Phys. Rev. A 86, 043438 (2012)

J. Ulmanis, J. Deiglmayr, M. Repp, R. Wester a, M. Weidemüller, Ultracold Molecules Formed by Photoassociation: Heteronuclear Dimers, a Inelastic Collisions, and Interactions with Ultrashort Laser Pulses, Chemical Reviews 112, 4890 (2012)

Simone Götz, Bastian Höltkemeier, Christoph S. Hofmann, Dominic Litsch, Brett D. DePaola, Matthias Weidemüller, Versatile cold atom target apparatus, Review of Scientific Instruments 83, 073112 (2012)

2011 D. Pfaff, A. Hagelgans, K. Bretzer, M. Weidemüller, Interaktive Physik-Vitrine für Schulen, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht 64/5, 288 (2011)

G. Birkl, C. Foot, T. Freegarde, R. Grimm, J.M. Hudson a, M. Weidemüller, Topical issue on Cold Quantum Matter [Editorial], Eur. Phys. J. D 65, 1 (2011)

J. Deiglmayr, M. Repp, O. Dulieu, R. Wester, M. Weidemüller, Population redistribution in optically trapped polar molecules, Eur. Phys. J. D 65, 99 (2011)

J. Deiglmayr, M. Repp, R. Wester, O. Dulieu, M. Weidemüller, Inelastic collisions of ultracold polar LiCs molecules with caesium a atoms in an optical dipole trap, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 13, 19101 (2011)

O. Dulieu, R. Krems, M. Weidemüller, S. Willitsch, Physics and Chemistry of Cold Molecules [Editorial], Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 13, 18703 (2011)

S Sevincli, C Ates, T Pohl, H Schempp, C S Hofmann, a G Günter, T Amthor, M Weidemüller, J D Pritchard a, D Maxwell, A Gauguet, K J Weatherill, M P A Jones, a C S Adams, Quantum interference in interacting three-level Rydberg gases: coherent a population trapping and electromagnetically induced transparency, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 44, 184018 (2011) [pdf]

S. Trippel, M. Stei, C. Eichhorn, R. Otto, P. Hlavenka a, M Weidemüller, R. Wester, Nanosecond Photofragment Imaging of Adiabatic Molecular Alignment, J. Chem. Phys. 134, 104306 (2011)

T. Amthor, C. Hofmann, J. Knorz, M. Weidemüller, High-precision semiconductor wavelength sensor based on a double-layer a photo diode, Review of Scientific Instruments 82, 093111 (2011)

2010 C Greve, M Kröner, S Trippel, P Woias, R Wester, a M Weidemüller, Storage of protonated water clusters in a biplanar multipole rf trap, New J. Phys. 12, 065035 (2010)

H. Schempp, G. Günter, C.S. Hofmann, C. Giese, S.D. a Saliba, B. D. DePaola, T. Amthor, M. Weidemüller, a S. Sevinçli, T. Pohl, Coherent population trapping with controlled interparticle interactions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 173602 (2010)

J, Mikosch, M. Weidemüller, R. Wester, On the dynamics of chemical reactions of negative ions, International Reviews in Physical Chemistry 29, 589-617 (2010)

J. Deiglmayr, A. Grochola, M. Repp, O. Dulieu, R Wester a, M Weidemüller, Permanent dipole moment of LiCs in the ground state, Phys. Rev. A 82, 032503 (2010)

Thomas Amthor, Christian Giese, Christoph S. Hofmann, Matthias a Weidemüller, Evidence of Antiblockade in an Ultracold Rydberg Gas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 013001 (2010)

2009 A. Grochola, A. Pashov, J. Deiglmayr, M. Repp, E. Tiemann a, R. Wester, M. Weidemüller, Photoassociation spectroscopy of the B1Π state of LiCs, The Journal of Chemical Physics 131, 054304 (2009)

B. Scherer, W. Salzmann, J. Wöllenstein, M. Weidemüller, Injection seeded single mode intra-cavity absorption spectroscopy, Applied Physics B 96, 281 (2009)

F. Eimer, F. Weise, A. Merli, S. Birkner, F. Sauer, L. Wöste,, A. Lindinger, R. Aganoglu, C. P. Koch, W. Salzmann, T. Mullins, S. Götz, R. Wester a, M. Weidemüller, Spectrally resolved coherent transient signal for ultracold rubidium a molecules, Eur. Phys. J. D 54, 711-714 (2009)

Fabian Weise, Andrea Merli, Frauke Eimer, Sascha Birkner a, Franziska Sauer, Ludger Wöste, Albrecht Lindinger, a Wenzel Salzmann, Terence G. Mullins, Roland Wester, Matthias a Weidemüller, Ruzin Ağanoğlu, Christiane a P. Koch, Characteristic oscillations in the coherent transients of ultracold a rubidium molecules using red and blue detuned pulses for photoassociation, Journal of Physics B 42, 215307 (2009)

J. Deiglmayr, M. Repp, A. Grochola, K. Mörtlbauer, a C. Glück, J. Lange, O. Dulieu, R. Wester, M. Weidemüller, Formation of ultracold dipolar molecules in the lowest vibrational a levels by photoassociation, Faraday Discussions 142, 335 (2009)

J. Deiglmayr, P. Pellegrini, A. Grochola, M. Repp, R. a Cote, O. Dulieu, R. Wester, M. Weidemüller, Influence of a Feshbach resonance on the photoassociation of LiCs, New Journal of Physics 11, 055034 (2009)

M. Weidemüller, Rydberg atoms - There can be only one, Nature Physics 5 (2009)

R. Otto, P. Hlavenka, S. Trippel, J. Mikosch, K. Singer a, M. Weidemüller, R. Wester, How can a 22-pole ion trap exhibit ten local minima in the effective a potential?, Journal of Physics B 42, 154007 (2009)

T. Amthor, J. Denskat, C. Giese, N. N. Bezuglov, A. Ekers a, L. Cederbaum, M. Weidemüller, Autoionization of an ultracold Rydberg gas through resonant dipole a coupling, Eur. Phys. J. D 53, 329 (2009)

T. Mullins, W. Salzmann, S. Götz, M. Albert, J. Eng, R. Wester, a M. Weidemüller, F. Weise, A .Merli, S. M. Weber, F. Sauer, L. Wöste a, A. Lindinger , Photoassociation and coherent transient dynamics in the interaction a of ultracold rubidium atoms with shaped femtosecond pulses. I. Experiment, Phys. Rev. A 80, 063416 (2009)

T. Amthor, M. Reetz-Lamour, M. Weidemüller, Frozen Rydberg Gases, in: Cold Atoms and Molecules, Wiley VCH (2009)

2008 J. Deiglmayr, A. Grochola, M. Repp, K. Mörtlbauer, a C. Glück, J. Lange, O. Dulieu, R. Wester, M. Weidemüller, Formation of ultracold polar molecules in the rovibrational ground a state, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 133004 (2008)

J. Deiglmayr, M. Aymar, R. Wester, M. Weidemüller, a O. Dulieu, Calculations of static dipole polarizabilities of alkali dimers. a Prospects for alignment of ultracold molecules, J. Chem. Phys. 129, 064309 (2008)

J. Mikosch, S. Trippel, C. Eichhorn, R. Otto, U. Lourderaj a, J. X. Zhang, W. L. Hase, M. Weidemüller, R. Wester, Imaging Nucleophilic Substitution Dynamics, Science 319, 183 (2008)

J. Mikosch, U. Frühling, S. Trippel, R. Otto, P. a Hlavenka, D. Schwalm, M. Weidemüller, R. Wester, Evaporation of trapped anions studied with a 22-pole ion trap in a tandem time-of-flight configuration, Phys. Rev. A 78, 023402 (2008)

M. Albert, T. Mullins, S. Götz, W. Salzmann, R. Wester a, M. Weidemüller, The interaction of a spectrally cut laser-pulse with a two-level a atom, J. Mod. Opt. 55, 3359 (2008)

M. Debatin, M. Kröner, J. Mikosch, S. Trippel, N. a Morrison, M. Reetz-Lamour, P. Woias, R. Wester, M. Weidemüller, A planar multipole ion trap, Phys. Rev. A 77, 033422 (2008)

M. Reetz-Lamour, J. Deiglmayr, T. Amthor, M. Weidemüller, Rabi oscillations between ground and Rydberg states and van der Waals a blockade in a mesoscopic frozen Rydberg gas, New J. Phys. 10, 045026 (2008)

M. Reetz-Lamour, T. Amthor, J. Deiglmayr, M. Weidemüller, Rabi oscillations and excitation trapping in the coherent excitation a of a mesoscopic frozen Rydberg gas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 253001 (2008)

R. Otto, J. Mikosch, S. Trippel, M. Weidemüller, a R. Wester, Nonstandard behavior of a negative ion reaction at very low temperatures, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 063201 (2008)

T. König, M. Weidemüller, A. Hemmerich, Real-time phase-shift detection of the surface plasmon resonance, Appl. Phys. B 55 (2008)

W. Salzmann, T. Mullins, J. Eng, M. Albert, R. Wester a, M. Weidemüller, A. Merli, S. M. Weber, F. Sauer a, M. Plewicki, F. Weise, L. Wöste, A. Lindinger, Coherent transients in the femtosecond photoassociation of ultracold a molecules, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 233003 (2008)

2007 A. N. Salgueiro, A. F. R. de Toledo Piza, G. B. Lemos, R. a Drumond, M. C. Nemes, M. Weidemüller, Quantum dynamics of bosons in a double-well potential: Josephson a oscillations, self-trapping and ultralong tunneling times, Eur. Phys. J. D, 44, 537 (2007)

A. N. Salgueiro, Chi-Yong Lin, A. F. R. de Toledo Piza, a M. Weidemüller, Doorway states and the Bose-Hubbard model, Nucl. Phys. A 790, 780 (2007)

Fabian Weise, Sascha Birkner, Andrea Merli, Stefan M. Weber a, Franziska Sauer, Ludger Wöste, Albrecht Lindinger, a Wenzel Salzmann, Terence G. Mullins, Judith Eng, Magnus a Albert, Roland Wester, Matthias Weidemüller, Optimal control of multiphoton ionization of Rb2 molecules in a a magneto-optical trap, Phys. Rev. A 76, 063404 (2007)

J. Mikosch, S. Trippel, R. Otto, C. Eichhorn, P. Hlavenka a, M. Weidemüller, R. Wester, Kinematically complete reaction dynamics of slow ions, J. Phys. Conf. Series, 88, 012025 (2007)

Jochen Mikosch, Ulrike Frühling, Sebastian Trippel, a Dirk Schwalm, Matthias Weidemüller, Roland Wester, Evaporation of buffer gas-thermalized anions out of a multipole rf a ion trap, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 223001 (2007)

M. Kröner, M. Debatin, J. Mikosch, S. Trippel, E. a Just, M. Reetz-Lamour, R. Wester, M. Weidemüller, a P. Woias, Simulation, design, and test of a novel planar rf micro ion trap, Proceedings of the Transducers and Eurosensors '07 (2007)

M. Reetz-Lamour, T. Amthor, S. Westermann, J. Denskat, a A. L. de Oliveira, M. Weidemüller, Modeling few-body phenomena in an ultracold Rydberg gas, Nucl. Phys. A 790, 728c (2007)

Oliver Mülken, Alexander Blumen, Thomas Amthor, Christian a Giese, Markus Reetz-Lamour, Matthias Weidemüller, Survival Probabilities in Coherent Exciton Transfer with Trapping, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 090601 (2007)

Rosario González-Férez, Matthias Weidemüller, Peter a Schmelcher, Photoassociation of cold heteronuclear dimers in static electric a fields, Phys. Rev. A 76, 023402 (2007)

S. D. Kraft, J. Mikosch, P. Staanum, J. Deiglmayr, J. a Lange, A. Fioretti, R. Wester, M. Weidemüller, A high resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometer for the detection a of ultracold molecules, Appl. Phys. B, 89, 453 (2007)

Thomas Amthor, Markus Reetz-Lamour, Christian Giese, Matthias a Weidemüller, Modeling many-particle mechanical effects of an interacting Rydberg a gas, Phys. Rev. A 76, 054702 (2007)

Thomas Amthor, Markus Reetz-Lamour, Sebastian Westermann, a Janne Denskat, Matthias Weidemüller, Mechanical effect of van der Waals interactions observed in real a time in an ultracold Rydberg gas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 023004 (2007)

B. Scherer, J. Wöllenstein, M. Weidemüller, W. Salzmann a, J. M. Ostermann, F. Rinaldi, R. Michalzik, Oxygen measurements at high pressures using a low-cost polarisation-stabilized a widely tunable vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 6589 (2007)

2006 J. Mikosch, U. Frühling, S. Trippel, D. Schwalm, a M. Weidemüller, R. Wester, Velocity map imaging of ion-molecule reactive scattering: The Ar+ a + N2 charge transfer reaction, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 8, 2990 (2006)

Johannes Deiglmayr, Markus Reetz-Lamour, Thomas Amthor, a Sebastian Westermann, André Luiz de Oliveira, Matthias a Weidemüller, Coherent excitation of Rydberg atoms in an ultracold gas, Opt. Comm. 264, 293 (2006)

Markus Reetz-Lamour, Thomas Amthor, Johannes Deiglmayr, a Sebastian Westermann, Kilian Singer, André Luiz de Oliveira a, Luis Gustavo Marcassa, Matthias Weidemüller, Prospects of ultracold Rydberg gases for quantum information processing, Fortschr. Phys. 54, 776 (2006)

Peter Staanum, Stephan D. Kraft, Jörg Lange, Roland a Wester, Matthias Weidemüller, Experimental investigation of ultracold atom-molecule collisions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 023201 (2006)

Sebastian Westermann, Thomas Amthor, André Luiz de Oliveira a, Johannes Deiglmayr, Markus Reetz-Lamour, Matthias Weidemüller, Dynamics of resonant energy transfer in a cold Rydberg gas, Eur. J. Phys. D 40, 37 (2006)

Stephan D. Kraft, Peter Staanum, Jörg Lage, Leif Vogel a, Roland Wester, Matthias Weidemüller, Formation of ultracold LiCs molecules, J. Phys. B 39, S993 (2006)

Ulrich Poschinger, Wenzel Salzmann, Roland Wester, Matthias a Weidemüller, Christiane Koch, Ronnie Kosloff, Theoretical model for ultracold molecule formation via adaptive feedback a control, J. Phys. B 39, S1001 (2006)

Wenzel Salzmann, Ulrich Poschinger, Roland Wester, Matthias a Weidemüller, Andrea Merli, Stefan M. Weber, Franziska a Sauer, Mateusz Plewicki, Fabian Weise, Aldo Mirabal Esparza a, Ludger Wöste, Albrecht Lindinger, Coherent control with shaped femtosecond laser pulses applied to a ultracold molecules, Phys. Rev. A 73, 023414 (2006)

2005 K. Singer, J. Stajonevic, M. Weidemüller, R. Côté, Long-range interactions between alkali Rydberg atom pairs correlated a to the ns-ns, np-np and nd-nd asymptotes, J. Phys. B 38, S295 (2005)

K. Singer, M. Reetz-Lamour, T. Amthor, S. Fölling, a M. Tscherneck, M. Weidemüller, Spectroscopy of an ultracold Rydberg gas and signatures of Rydberg-Rydberg a interactions, J. Phys. B 38, S321 (2005)

L. G. Marcassa, A. L. de Oliveira, M. Weidemüller, V. a S. Bagnato, Colliding atomic pair distribution in an ultralong-range Rydberg a potential, Phys. Rev. A 71, 054701 (2005)

S. D. Kraft, M. Mudrich, M. U. Staudt, J. Lange, O. Dulieu a, R. Wester, M. Weidemüller, Saturation of Cs2 photoassociation in an optical dipole trap, Phys. Rev. A 71, 013417 (2005)

M. Weidemüller, K. Singer, M. Reetz-Lamour, T. Amthor a, L.G. Marcassa, Ultralong-Range Interactions and Blockade of Excitation in a Cold a Rydberg Gas, in: Atomic Physics XIX, pp. 157-163 (2005)

M. Weidemüller, M. Reetz-Lamour, T. Amthor, J. Deiglmayr a, K. Singer, L.G. Marcassa, Interactions in an Ultracold Gas of Rydberg Atoms, in: Laser Spectroscopy XVII, pp. 264-274 (2005)

2004 K. Singer, M. Eichhorn, M. Tscherneck, M. Reetz-Lamour, a M. Weidemüller, Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur kohärenten Überlagerung von a Laserstrahlen aus verschiedenen Lichtquellen, Deutsche Patentanmeldung DE 102 43 367 (2004)

K. Singer, M. Reetz-Lamour, T. Amthor, L. G. Marcassa, a M. Weidemüller, Spectral Broadening and Suppression of Excitation Induced by Ultralong-Range a Interactions in a Cold Gas of Rydberg Atoms, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 163001 (2004)

M. Eichhorn, M. Mudrich, M. Weidemüller, Optical dipole trap inside a laser resonator, Opt. Lett. 29, 1147 (2004)

M. Mudrich, O. Bünermann, F. Stienkemeier, O. Dulieu a, M. Weidemüller, Formation of cold bialkali dimers on helium nanodroplets, Eur. J. Phys. D 31, 291 (2004)

O. Bünermann, M. Mudrich, M. Weidemüller, F. Stienkemeier, Spectroscopy of Cs attached to helium nanodroplets, J. Chem. Phys. 121, 8880 (2004)

R. Wester, S. D. Kraft, M. Mudrich, M. Staudt, J. Lange a, N. Vanhaecke, O. Dulieu, M. Weidemüller, Photoassociation inside an optical dipole trap: absolute rate coefficients a and Franck-Condon factors, Appl. Phys. B 79, 993 (2004)

2003 G. Saathoff, U. Eisenbarth, S. Hannemann, I. Hoog, G. a Huber, M. Grieser, S. Karpuk, S. Krohn, J. Lassen, a D. Schwalm, M. Weidemüller, G. Gwinner, Towards a new test of the relativistic time dilation factor by laser a spectroscopy of fast ions in a storage ring, Hyperf. Int. 146, 71-75 (2003)

J. Kleinert, S. Hannemann, U. Eisenbarth, B. Eike, M. a Grieser, R. Grimm, G. Gwinner, S. Karpuk, G. Saathoff a, U. Schramm, D. Schwalm, M. Weidemüller, Laser-Cooled Ions and Atoms in a Storage Ring, Hyperf. Int. 146, 189-195 (2003)

M. Tscherneck, K. Singer, M. Eichhorn, M. Reetz-Lamour, a S. Fölling, M. Weidemüller, Phase-coherent addition of laser beams, Opt. Comm. 218, 371-377 (2003)

M. Weidemüller, Und es kondensiert doch ... [in german], Physik Journal 2, 18-19 (2003)

U. Eisenbarth, M. Beutelspacher, B. Eike, M. Grieser, a R. Grimm, M. Mudrich, U. Schramm, D. Schwalm, M. Weidemüller, New method to measure the friction force of electron coolers in heavy-ion a storage rings, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 498 (2003)

M. Weidemüller, C. Zimmermann (Eds.), Interactions in Ultracold Gases: From Atoms to Molecules, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim (2003)

K. Singer, M. Reetz-Lamour, M. Tscherneck, S. Fölling a, M. Weidemüller, Towards an ultracold dense gas of Rydberg atoms, in: Interactions in Ultracold Gases: From Atoms to Molecules (2003)

M. Mudrich, S. Kraft, K. Singer, A. Mosk, M. Weidemüller, Thermodynamics in an ultracold mixture of optically trapped atomic a gases, in: Interactions in Ultracold Gases: From Atoms to Molecules (2003)

2002 Mudrich, M., Kraft, S., Singer, K., Grimm, R., Mosk, a A., Weidemüller, M., Sympathetic Cooling with Two Atomic Species in an Optical a Trap, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 253001 (2002)

2001Mosk, A., Kraft, S., Mudrich, M., Singer, K., Wohlleben, W., Grimm, R., Weidemüller, M., mixture of ultracold lithium and cesium atoms in an optical dipole trap, Applied Physics B73, 791-799 (2001)

2000 Engler, H., Weber, T., Mudrich, M., Grimm, R., Weidemüller, a M., Very long storage times and evaporative cooling of cesium atoms a in a quasielectrostatic dipole trap, Phys. Rev. A 62, 031402 (2000)

1999 U. Schlöder, H. Engler, U. Schünemann, R. Grimm, a M. Weidemüller, Cold inelastic collisions between lithium and cesium in a two-species a magneto-optical trap, The European Physical Journal D 7, 331-340 (1999)