Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat.

Markus Aspelmeyer

Markus Aspelmeyer

Full Member of the Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences since 2022

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Research Areas:

  • Physics, Astronomy
  • Experimental physics
  • Quantum mechanics
  • Quantum optics
  • Theory of relativity
  • Philosophy
  • Quantenoptik
  • Grundlagen der Quantenphysik und Gravitationsphysik

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Selected Memberships:

  • Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg
  • Europäische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste

Selected Prizes:

  • Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis
  • Fellow American Physical Society
  • Ignaz L. Lieben Preis
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Forschungspreis
  • Fresnel Preis

Selected Publications:

  • Measurement of gravitational coupling between millimetre-sized masses. T. Westphal, H. Hepach, J. Pfaff, M. Aspelmeyer. Nature 591, 225-228 (2021).
  • Delic, U.; Reisenbauer, M.; Dare, K.; Grass, D.; Vuletic, V. et al. [..] (2020) Cooling of a levitated nanoparticle to the motional quantum ground state. Science, Bd. 367, S. 892-895.
  • Belenchia, Alessio; Wald, Robert M.; Giacomini, Flaminia; Castro-Ruiz, Esteban; Brukner, Caslav et al. [..] (2018) Quantum superposition of massive objects and the quantization of gravity. Phys. Rev. D, Bd. 98, S. 126009.
  • Cole, G. D.; Zhang, W.; Martin, M. J.; Ye, J.; Aspelmeyer, M. (2013) Tenfold reduction of Brownian noise in high-reflectivity optical coatings. Nature Photonics, Bd. 7, S. 644-650.
  • Gröblacher, S.; Hammerer, K.; Vanner, M. R.; Aspelmeyer, M. (2009) Observation of strong coupling between a micromechanical resonator and an optical cavity field. Nature, Bd. 460, S. 724-727.