Tilman Esslinger
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Tilman Esslinger | |
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| Alma mater | University of Munich |
| Known for | Ultracold quantum gases, optical lattices, Mott insulators, experimental realization of the topological Haldane model |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | ETH Zurich |
| Doctoral advisor | Theodor Hänsch |
| Website | www |
Tilman Esslinger is a German experimental physicist. He is Professor at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and works in the field of ultracold quantum gases and optical lattices.
Tilman Esslinger received his PhD in physics from the University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany, in 1995. In his doctoral research he worked under the supervision of Theodor Hänsch on subrecoil laser cooling and optical lattices. He then build up his own group in Hänsch's lab and conducted pioneering work on atom lasers,[1] observed long-range phase coherence in a Bose–Einstein condensate,[2] and realized the superfluid to Mott-insulator transition with a Bose gas in an optical lattice.[3][4] Following his habilitation, Esslinger was in October 2001 appointed full professor at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where he pioneered one-dimensional atomic quantum gases,[5] Fermi–Hubbard models with atoms,[6] a quantum-gas analogue of the topological Haldane model [7] and the merger of quantum gas experiments with cavity quantum electrodynamics.[8]
