Teaching

Seminar (M.Sc.) - Quantum Physics

Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Fertl
Course No.: 08.128.80103
Course Type: Seminar

Requirements / organisational issues

Framework conditions for the seminar:

Contact the supervisor of the lecture at least 4 weeks before the lecture date
Discussion of the first draft of the lecture at latest 2 weeks before the lecture
Test talk with supervisor at least 1 week before the lecture date
Length of presentation: 30 minutes + 10 minutes Q&A
Language: German or preferrably English

The distribution of the presentation topics is via email request to mfertl@uni-mainz.de

Recommended reading list

Will be determined with the supervisor of the presentation.

Topic: Long-lifed coherent states for nuclear- and particle physics, cosmology and quantum information science

Quantum technolgies nowadays span the full range of fundamental research to applied physics and metrology.
In areas of fields of physics traditionally regarded as independent, unique opportunities often arise to experimentally study fundamental questions (e.g. why is there any matter at all?). Long-lifed coherent states play a crucial role in this endeavour

This seminar aims to present the full range of concepts and the application of quantum methods. The topics are therefore broadly chosen to highlight the existing connections. The individual topics are supervised by individual members of the QUANTUM working group.

A list of possible seminar topics (but not limited to these):

Quantized states of neutrons bound in the earth's gravitational field: search for exotic interactions (Fertl)
Measurement of gravitational waves with light interferometers (Walz)
Mass spectroscopy on rare elements (Wendt)
Determination of the magnetic flux quantum with superconducting interferometers (Bluemler)
Quantum logic clocks - the most accurate ion clocks in the world (Poschinger)
Optical lattice clocks (Windpassinger)
Measurement of the magnetic moment of the (anti-)proton (Walz, Smorra)
Determination of the Rydberg constant (Pohl)
Measurement of nuclear charge radii with muonic atoms (Pohl)
Measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of muons and electrons (Fertl)
Are natural constants really constant? Variation of the fine structure constant (Budker)
Measurement of neutron life time (Fertl)
Neutron interferometry (Fertl)
Quantum-non-demolition mesurements, quantum noise squeezing and entangles states for improved measurement senistivity (van Loock)
Optical magnetometer arrays to search for domain walls, axions, ... (Budker)
Magnetic microcalorimeters for high-precision spectroscopy of X-rays and decay electrons (Fertl)
ADMX - Josephson junctions and quantum limited amplifiers for a axion search (Fertl)
Muonic X-rays to study the weak interaction (Pohl)
Precision gravimetry for fundamental physics (Budker)
Measurement of the permanent electric dipole moment of the electron using ultracold molecular beams (Fertl)

Digitale Lehre

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https://moodle.uni-mainz.de/course/view.php?id=1616

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Liebe Studierende, bitte verwenden Sie diesen Link https://moodle.uni-mainz.de/course/view.php?id=1616 um sich ueber die Details dieses Seminars zu informieren. Dort koennen Sie sich auch selbst registrieren, um alle aktuellen Informationen zum Kurs zu erhalten. Sie muessen sich allerdings immernoch in Jogustine fuer den Kurs einschreiben. Durch die Umstellung Master II auf einzelne Seminare nach Arbeitsgruppen) wurden Einschreibeschwierigkeiten erzeugt. Mit besten Gruessen, Martin Fertl Dear students, please use this link https://moodle.uni-mainz.de/course/view.php?id=1616 to find out about the details of this seminar. There you can also register yourself to everyone receive current information about the course. However, you still have to enroll in Jogustine for the course. The conversion of Master II to individual seminars by working group) created registration difficulties. Best Regards, Martin Fertl

Additional Information

Informationen

Short Description :
First seminar om April 27, 2020

Description:
Dear students, The number of participants in the seminar allows us to delay the start of this course by one week. This information was so far only available in the Moodle course. We will only start on Monday April 27, 2020. Best regards, Martin Fertl