
Professor Stefan Kuhr
Head Of Department
Physics
Publications
- 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
- 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
- Floquet solitons and dynamics of periodically driven matter waves with negative effective mass
- Mitchell Matthew, Carli Andrea Di, León Germán Sinuco, Rooij Arthur La, Kuhr Stefan, Haller Elmar
- Physical Review Letters Vol 127 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.243603
- Collisionally inhomogeneous Bose-Einstein condensates with a linear interaction gradient
- Di Carli Andrea, Henderson Grant, Flannigan Stuart, Colquhoun Craig D, Mitchell Matt, Oppo Gian-Luca, Daley Andrew J, Kuhr Stefan, Haller Elmar
- Physical Review Letters Vol 125 (2020)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.183602
- Excitation modes of bright matter-wave solitons
- Carli Andrea Di, Colquhoun Craig D, Henderson Grant, Flannigan Stuart, Oppo Gian-Luca, Daley Andrew J, Kuhr Stefan, Haller Elmar
- Physical Review Letters Vol 123 (2019)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.123602
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
- Scottish Centre for Innovation in quantum computing and simulation (External organisation)
- Member
- 7/5/2019
Projects
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Carfora, Lorenzo
- Kuhr, Stefan (Principal Investigator) Daley, Andrew (Co-investigator) Carfora, Lorenzo (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2026
- STFC Strathclyde Physics 2023 DTP
- Kuhr, Stefan (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2028
- Studentship from EPSRC Quantum Technology Hub for Quantum Computing and Simulation (Oxford) (Paul Catterson)
- Kuhr, Stefan (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2027
- RAL Studentship at Strathclyde 2022
- Kuhr, Stefan (Principal Investigator) Cross, Adrian (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2027
- 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
- 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
Contact
Professor
Stefan
Kuhr
Head Of Department
Physics
Email: stefan.kuhr@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3364