Dr Elmar Haller
Senior Lecturer
Physics
Personal statement
Elmar Haller is a Senior Lecturer at the Experimental Quantum Optics and Photonics Group of the Department of physics. He is interested in fundamental research in the fields of atomic and molecular physics, ultracold atoms, and quantum simulation. His current research focuses on the study of bosonic and fermionic quantum gases, with an emphasis on transport phenomena and the interplay of interactions and confinement.
Elmar joined the Physics Department of the University of Strathclyde in 2012 as a Postdoc and Marie Curie Fellow in the group of Prof. S. Kuhr to build a quantum-gas microscope with images of single, site-resolved, fermionic atoms. In 2015, he received a Chancellor’s Fellowship of the University of Strathclyde and started an experimental setup to study Cesium atoms in optical lattices.
Prior to his work at Strathclyde, Elmar studied Physics at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, examining for his diploma thesis microtraps on atom-chips in the group of Prof. J. Schmiedmayer. During his doctoral work, he studied quantum phases in low-dimensional systems in the group of Prof. H.-C. Nägerl at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. His PhD thesis was rewarded with the DAMOP Dissertation Award of the American Physical Society in 2011.
Link to Elmar Haller's research group page.
!! Postdoc and PhD Positions available - please contact me for details.
Dr. Elmar Haller
University of Strathlcyde
Department of Physics
John Anderson Building, Room 308(2)
Glasgow G4 0NG
United Kindgom
Prize And Awards
- Chancellor’s Fellowship at the University of Strathclyde
- Recipient
- 2015
- Marie Curie Individual Fellowship
- Recipient
- 2013
- DAMOP Dissertation Award of the American Physical Society
- Recipient
- 2011
Publications
- Experimental observation of single- and multi-site matter-wave solitons in an optical accordion lattice
- Cruickshank Robbie, Lorenzi Francesco, La Rooij Arthur, Kerr Ethan, Hilker Timon, Kuhr Stefan, Salasnich Luca, Haller Elmar
- Physical Review Letters (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/sh72-wnmv
- Rapid stochastic spatial light modulator calibration and pixel crosstalk optimization
- Schroff P, Haller E, Kuhr S, La Rooij A
- Optics Express Vol 32, pp. 48957-48971 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.539548
- Phonon excitations of Floquet-driven superfluids in a tilted optical lattice
- Cruickshank Robbie, Carli Andrea Di, Mitchell Matthew, Rooij Arthur La, Kuhr Stefan, Creffield Charles E, Haller Elmar
- Physical Review Research Vol 6 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.023323
- Commensurate and incommensurate 1D interacting quantum systems
- Di Carli Andrea, Parsonage Christopher, La Rooij Arthur, Koehn Lennart, Ulm Clemens, Duncan Callum, Daley Andrew, Haller Elmar, Kuhr Stefan
- Nature Communications Vol 15 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44610-3
- A comparative study of deconvolution techniques for quantum-gas microscope images
- La Rooij A, Ulm C, Haller E, Kuhr S
- New Journal of Physics Vol 25 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aced65
- Accurate holographic light potentials for cold-atom experiments
- Schroff Paul, La Rooij Arthur, Haller Elmar, Kuhr Stefan
- Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional Imaging 2023 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1364/DH.2023.HM1D.5
Professional Activities
- Quantum Technology School 2024
- Contributor
- 12/9/2024
- Science @ Strathclyde - Physics laboratory activities
- Contributor
- 12/6/2019
Projects
- Supersolids and quantum droplets via light mediated interactions
- Ackemann, Thorsten (Principal Investigator) Haller, Elmar (Co-investigator) Kirton, Peter (Co-investigator) Robb, Gordon (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2028
- Quantum Advantage in Quantitative Quantum Simulation (Programme Grant)
- Daley, Andrew (Principal Investigator) Kuhr, Stefan (Principal Investigator) Haller, Elmar (Co-investigator) Kuhr, Stefan (Co-investigator) Pritchard, Jonathan (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2030
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Koehn, Lennart
- Kuhr, Stefan (Principal Investigator) Haller, Elmar (Co-investigator) Koehn, Lennart (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2026
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Cruickshank, Robbie
- Haller, Elmar (Principal Investigator) Kuhr, Stefan (Co-investigator) Cruickshank, Robbie (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2026
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Parsonage, Christopher
- Kuhr, Stefan (Principal Investigator) Haller, Elmar (Co-investigator) Parsonage, Christopher (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 09-Jan-2025
- Quantum solitons and cluster states with well-defined atom number (New Investigator)
- Haller, Elmar (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2022