Quantum

Science and

Technology in

ARcetri

Max-Planck-Institut fu r Quantenoptik

European Laboratory for Non-Linear

Spectroscopy

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

Universita degli Studi di Firenze

Joint Research Center for Quantum

Science and Technology in Arcetri

Quantum Science and Technology in Arcetri

Largo Enrico Fermi 2

I-50125 Firenze

Web: http://www.cqstar.eu

Email: info@cqstar.eu

Tel: + 39 055 275 5085

Skype: INFO QSTAR

With support from

New Research Horizon in Arcetri

March 12, 2013

Pictorial representation of 5 levels Hilbert space

separated by a strong perturbation without

destroying quantum dynamics (from Nat. Comm.

5, 3194, 2014).

QSTAR in numbers November 2012-March 2014

People 18

Associated 9

PhD & Post doc 8

Administrative staff 1

Articles 16

Organized events 5

Covers 2

Who we are

QSTAR is a joint research center

bringing together the Max Planck

Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ), the

Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), the

European Laboratory for Nonlinear

Spectroscopy (LENS), the University of

Florence and the National Institute of

Optics - National Research Council (INO-

CNR).

The ambition is to foster a highly

interdisciplinary scientific environment

focused on the intriguing research

opportunities in low-energy quantum

science that are being created by

emerging new technologies in atomic,

molecular, and optical physics, precision

metrology and nano-scale science. Goals

and opportunities in this

interdisciplinary field range from tests

of fundamental physics laws and the

better understanding of the counter-

intuitive behaviour of quantum

mechanical many body systems to the

engineering of novel quantum devices

from the atomic scale to the mesoscopic

scale.

Scientific Committee

Theodor W. Ha nsch (Coordinator)

Massimo Inguscio (Coordinator)

Immanuel Bloch

Francesco S. Cataliotti

Roberto Cingolani

Gerhard Rempe

Augusto Smerzi

Research Coordinators

Francesco S. Cataliotti

Augusto Smerzi

Massimo Inguscio and Ted Hänsch

Research lines

Theory

Quantum Interferometry

Quantum Dynamics and Thermodynamics in

Optical Lattices

Josephson Effects with Ultracold Atoms in

Double-Wells

Nanoscale Optics and Spectroscopy

Many body systems, Decoherence and

Quantum Control

Quantum Emitters and Cavity QED

Search for an extension of Quantum

Mechanics

Quantum Transport in Noisy Systems and

Biological Light-Harvesting Nanostructures

Experiments

Atom Chip and Quantum Interfaces

Organic Molecules for Quantum Optics

Novel regimes of light matter interaction pushed forward

by the development of ultrafast coherent nanoscopy

(Artist’s view from the cover of Molecular Physics Vol.111,

2013).