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Research project

Testing the Large-Scale Limit of Quantum Mechanics

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Hendrik Ulbricht

Professor of Physics

Research interests

  • Hendrik's main research interests concern experimental tests of fundamental theories of Nature by table-top experiments but also in space. Some tests are concerned with the large mass limit of the quantum superposition principle, which forms the basis of quantum mechanics. Other experiments are concerned with testing the interplay between quantum mechanics and gravitation in the low energy limit.
  • The Ulbricht group performs quantum experimental research on the preparation and analysis of massive systems in non-classical states by various techniques. They pioneer so-called levitated opto- and magneto-mechanics experiments, where light and magnetic fields are used to both trap and control nano- and micro-particles in vacuum. Please see the Ulbricht group webpages for more details.
Connect with Hendrik

Email: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Narrowing the parameter space of collapse models with ultracold layered force sensors
A. Vinante, M. Carlesso, A. Bassi, A. Chiasera, S. Varas, P. Falferi, B. Margesin, R. Mezzena & H. Ulbricht, 2020, Physical Review Letters, 125(100404)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.100404
Type: article
Ultralow mechanical damping with Meissner-levitated ferromagnetic microparticles
Andrea Vinante, Paolo Falferi, Giulio Gasbarri, Ashley James Setter, Christopher Timberlake & Hendrik Ulbricht, 2020, Physical Review Applied, 13(6)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.13.064027
Type: article
Real-time Kalman filter
Ashley Setter, Marko Toros, Jason Ralph & Hendrik Ulbricht, 2018, Physical Review A, 97(3)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.97.033822
Type: article