Professor Stefan Kuhr
Head Of Department
Physics
Personal statement
Stefan Kuhr is Head of the Optics Division and the Experimental Quantum Optics and Photonics Group. His current research work focuses on single-atom resolved manipulation and detection of ultracold atoms in optical lattices (details). Stefan joined the Physics Department of the University of Strathclyde in 2011 and holds the SUPA Chair of Quantum Information. From 2007 - 2011 he has been working as a senior scientist at the University of Mainz and the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching. Stefan received his PhD in 2003 in Bonn and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris from 2003 - 2006. | Researcher-ID F-7296-2011; Google Scholar Profile. |
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Prof. Stefan Kuhr
University of Strathlcyde
Department of Physics
John Anderson Building, Room 819
Glasgow G4 0NG
United Kindgom
Prize And Awards
- ERC Starting Grant
- Recipient
- 2011
- Fellow of the Institute of Physics
- Recipient
- 2011
Publications
- 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
- Instabilities of interacting matter waves in optical lattices with Floquet driving
- Di Carli Andrea, Cruickshank Robbie, Mitchell Matt, La Rooij Arthur, Kuhr Stefan, Creffield Charles, Haller Elmar
- Physical Review Research Vol 5 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.033024
- Accurate holographic light potentials using pixel crosstalk modelling
- Schroff Paul, La Rooij Arthur, Haller Elmar, Kuhr Stefan
- Scientific Reports Vol 13 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30296-6
Research Interests
Stefan Kuhr’s research activities are focussed on optical lattices with single-atom detection capabilities (link to EQOP home page). His team at the University of Strathclyde was amongst the first to realize a fermionic quantum-gas microscope [Nature Physics 11, 738 (2015)]. As a senior scientist at the Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (2009-2011) and in Mainz (2007-2009), he pioneered single-atom-resolved detection and manipulation of strongly correlated ultracold atoms in optical lattices [Nature 467, 68 (2010)]. He demonstrated addressing of individual atoms with sub-diffraction-limited resolution [Nature 471, 319 (2011)], the measurements of quantum fluctuations across the superfluid-to-Mott-Insulator transition [Science 334, 200 (2011)], direct measurement of correlation spreading [Nature 481, 484 (2012)], the observation of the ‘Higgs’ amplitude mode [Nature 487, 454, (2012)] and Rydberg blockade [Nature 491, 87 (2012)], and time-dynamics of spin-impurities [Nature Physics 9, 235 (2013)]. Kuhr’s other key contributions to quantum optics were quantum non-demolition detection of single photons [Nature 446, 297 (2007), Nature 448, 889 (2007)] (postdoc with 2012 Physics Nobel Laureate Serge Haroche at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris) and a “single-atom conveyor-belt” [Science 293, 278 (2001)] (PhD work in Bonn).
Professional Activities
- QCS-Hub Forum, Oxford
- Speaker
- 20/6/2024
- Conference of the European Group of Atomic Systems (EGAS-55), Granada, Spain
- Invited speaker
- 16/6/2024
- HKUST-Strathclyde Workshop on Quantum Technologies
- Invited speaker
- 29/11/2023
- International Quantum Tensor Network Meeting
- Invited speaker
- 24/1/2023
- Kolloquium Optik und kondensierte Materie, Universtät Bonn, Germany
- Invited speaker
- 7/7/2020
- Workshop: Towards Dipolar Physics with Ultracold Molecules
- Invited speaker
- 20/11/2019
Projects
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Carfora, Lorenzo
- Kuhr, Stefan (Principal Investigator) Kirton, Peter (Co-investigator) Carfora, Lorenzo (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Oct-2023 - 01-Apr-2027
- Studentship from EPSRC Quantum Technology Hub for Quantum Computing and Simulation (Oxford) (Paul Catterson)
- Kuhr, Stefan (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Oct-2023 - 31-Mar-2027
- STFC Strathclyde Physics 2023 DTP
- Kuhr, Stefan (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Oct-2023 - 30-Sep-2028
- RAL Studentship at Strathclyde 2022
- Kuhr, Stefan (Principal Investigator) Cross, Adrian (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jul-2023 - 30-Jun-2027
- Training Grant, Quota Studentships (STFC Strathclyde 2022 DTP)
- Kuhr, Stefan (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Oct-2022 - 30-Sep-2026
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Cruickshank, Robbie
- Haller, Elmar (Principal Investigator) Kuhr, Stefan (Co-investigator) Cruickshank, Robbie (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Oct-2022 - 01-Apr-2026
Contact
Professor
Stefan
Kuhr
Head Of Department
Physics
Email: stefan.kuhr@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3364