Publications
Many-body Quantum dynamics publications
2026
Breakdown of bosonic Thouless pump due to interaction in a quasiperiodic lattice
Suman Mondal, Emmanuel Gottlob, Fabian Heidrich-Meisner, Ulrich Schneider
Arxiv: 2601.18229 (2026)
2025
On the origin of energy gaps in quasicrystalline potentials
Emmanuel Gottlob, David Gröters, Ulrich Schneider
Arxiv: 2512.18328 (2025)
Thirty years of Bose–Einstein condensation
Zoran Hadzibabic & Ulrich Schneider
Nature 647, 860-861 (2025)
Wavefront Curvature and Transverse Atomic Motion in Time-Resolved Atom Interferometry: Impact and Mitigation
Noam Mouelle, Jeremiah Mitchell, Valerie Gibson, Ulrich Schneider
Arxiv: 2510.26739 (2025)
Superfluid-Mott transition in a frustrated triangular optical lattice
Mehedi Hasan, Luca Donini, Sompob Shanokprasith, Daniel Braund, Tobias Marozsak, Moritz Epping, Daniel Reed, Max Melchner, Tiffany Harte, Ulrich Schneider
Arxiv: 2509.20352 (2025)
Letter of Intent: AICE -- 100m Atom Interferometer Experiment at CERN
Baynham et al.
Arxiv: 2509.11867 (2025)
AION-10: Technical Design Report for a 10m Atom Interferometer in Oxford
AION collaboration
Arxiv: 2508.03491 (2025)
Quasiperiodicity protects quantized transport in disordered systems without gaps
Emmanuel Gottlob, Dan S. Borgnia, Robert-Jan Slager, Ulrich Schneider
PRX Quantum 6, 020359 (2025)
A Prototype Atom Interferometer to Detect Dark Matter and Gravitational Waves
AION collaboration
Arxiv: 2504.09158 (2025)
Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry: Summary of the Second Workshop
TVLBAI collaboration
EPJ Quantum Technol. 12, 42 (2025)
2024
Observing the two-dimensional Bose glass in an optical quasicrystal
Jr-Chiun Yu, Shaurya Bhave, Lee Reeve, Bo Song, Ulrich Schneider
Nature 633, 338–343 (2024)
Individually tunable tunnelling coefficients in optical lattices using local periodic driving
Georgia M. Nixon, F. Nur Ünal, Ulrich Schneider
Quantum Sci. Technol. 9 045030 (2024)
Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry: Workshop Summary
S. Abend, et al.
AVS Quantum Sci. 6, 024701 (2024)
Centralised Design and Production of the Ultra-High Vacuum and Laser-Stabilisation Systems for the AION Ultra-Cold Strontium Laboratories
AION Collaboration
AVS Quantum Sci. 6, 014409 (2023)
2023
Probing quantum properties of black holes with a Floquet-driven optical lattice simulator
Asmae Benhemou, Georgia Nixon, Aydin Deger, Ulrich Schneider, Jiannis K. Pachos
Arxiv: 2312.14058 (2023)
Large-Scale Atom Interferometry for Fundamental Physics
Oliver Buchmueller, John Ellis, Ulrich Schneider
Contemporary Physics, 64(2), 93–110 (2023) (2023)
Hubbard Models for Quasicrystalline Potentials
Emmanuel Gottlob, Ulrich Schneider
Phys. Rev. B 107, 144202 (2023)
2022
Cold Atoms in Space: Community Workshop Summary and Proposed Road-Map
Alonso et al.
EPJ Quantum Technology 9, 30 (2022)
Anderson and many-body localization in the presence of spatially correlated classical noise
Stefano Marcantoni, Federico Carollo, Filippo M. Gambetta, Igor Lesanovsky, Ulrich Schneider, Juan P. Garrahan
Phys. Rev. B 106, 134211 (2022)
Realizing discontinuous quantum phase transitions in a strongly-correlated driven optical lattice
Bo Song, Shovan Dutta, Shaurya Bhave, Jr-Chiun Yu, Edward Carter, Nigel Cooper, Ulrich Schneider
Nature Physics 18, 259 (2022)
2021
AtomECS: Simulate laser cooling and magneto-optical traps
X. Chen, M. Zeuner, U. Schneider, C.J. Foot, T.L. Harte, E. Bentine
ArXiv:2105.06447 (2021)
Effect of disorder on topological charge pumping in the Rice-Mele model
A.L.C. Hayward, E. Bertok, U. Schneider, F. Heidrich-Meisner
Phys. Rev. A 103, 043310 (2021)
2020
Observing localisation in a 2D quasicrystalline optical lattice
Matteo Sbroscia, Konrad Viebahn, Edward Carter, Jr-Chiun Yu, Alexander Gaunt, Ulrich Schneider
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 200604 (2020)
AION: An Atom Interferometer Observatory and Network
L. Badurina et al. (AION Collaboration)
JCAP 05(2020), 011 (2020)
Parametric instabilities of interacting bosons in periodically driven 1D optical lattices
K. Wintersperger, M. Bukov, J. Näger, S. Lellouch, E. Demler, U. Schneider, I. Bloch, N. Goldman, M. Aidelsburger
Phys. Rev. X 10, 011030 (2020)
Mixed spectra and partially extended states in a two-dimensional quasiperiodic model
Attila Szabó, Ulrich Schneider
Phys. Rev. B 101, 014205 (2020)
2019
Matter-wave diffraction from a quasicrystalline optical lattice
Konrad Viebahn, Matteo Sbroscia, Edward Carter, Jr-Chiun Yu, Ulrich Schneider
Phys. Rev. Lett. 122,110404 (2019)
2018
Non-Equilibrium Mass Transport in the 1D Fermi-Hubbard Model
S. Scherg, T. Kohlert, J. Herbrych, J. Stolpp, P. Bordia, U. Schneider, F. Heidrich-Meisner, I. Bloch, M. Aidelsburger
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 130402 (2018)
Non-power-law universality in one-dimensional quasicrystals
Attila Szabó, Ulrich Schneider
Phys. Rev. B 98, 134201 (2018)
2017
Observation of Slow Dynamics near the Many-Body Localization Transition in One-Dimensional Quasiperiodic Systems
Henrik Lüschen, Pranjal Bordia, Sebastian Scherg, Fabien Alet, Ehud Altman, Ulrich Schneider, Immanuel Bloch
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 260401 (2017)
Probing Slow Relaxation and Many-Body Localization in Two-Dimensional Quasi-Periodic Systems
Pranjal Bordia, Henrik Lüschen, Sebastian Scherg, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Michael Knap, Ulrich Schneider, Immanuel Bloch
Phys. Rev. X 7, 041047 (2017)
Interaction dependent heating and atom loss in a periodically driven optical lattice
Martin Reitter, Jakob Näger, Karen Wintersperger, Christoph Sträter, Immanuel Bloch, André Eckardt, Ulrich Schneider
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 200402 (2017)
Breakdown of ergodicity in quantum systems: from solids to synthetic matter
Michael Pepper, Arijeet Pal, Zlatko Papic, Ulrich Schneider, Steven Simon
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 375 20170264 (2017)
Signatures of Many-Body Localization in a Controlled Open Quantum System
Henrik P. Lüschen, Pranjal Bordia, Sean S. Hodgman, Michael Schreiber, Saubhik Sarkar, Andrew J. Daley, Mark H. Fischer, Ehud Altman, Immanuel Bloch, Ulrich Schneider
Phys. Rev. X 7, 011034 (2017)
Periodically Driving a Many-Body Localized Quantum System
Pranjal Bordia, Henrik Lüschen, Ulrich Schneider, Michael Knap, Immanuel Bloch
Nature Physics 13, 460 (2017)
2016
Bloch state tomography using Wilson lines
T. Li, L. Duca, M. Reitter, F. Grusdt, E. Demler, M. Endres, M. Schleier-Smith, I. Bloch, U. Schneider
Science 352, 1094 (2016)
Coupling Identical 1D Many-Body Localized Systems
P. Bordia, H. P. Lüschen, S. S. Hodgman, M. Schreiber, I. Bloch, U. Schneider
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 140401 (2016)
2015
Dynamical Quasicondensation of Hard-Core Bosons at Finite Momenta
L. Vidmar, J. P. Ronzheimer, M. Schreiber, S. Braun, S. S. Hodgman, S. Langer, F. Heidrich-Meisner, I. Bloch, and U. Schneider
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 175301 (2015)
Observation of many-body localization of interacting fermions in a quasi-random optical lattice
M. Schreiber, S. S. Hodgman, P. Bordia, H. P. Lüschen, M. H. Fischer, R. Vosk, E. Altman, U. Schneider, I. Bloch
Science 349, 842 (2015)
Emergence of coherence and the dynamics of quantum phase transitions
S. Braun, M. Friesdorf, S. S. Hodgman, M. Schreiber, J. P. Ronzheimer, A. Riera, M. del Rey, I. Bloch, J. Eisert, and U. Schneider
PNAS 112, 3641 (2015)
2014
An Aharonov-Bohm interferometer for determining Bloch band topology
L. Duca, T. Li, M. Reitter, I. Bloch, M. Schleier-Smith, U. Schneider
Science 347, 288 (2015), Science Express (2014)
Comment on "Consistent thermostatistics forbids negative absolute temperatures"
U. Schneider, S. Mandt, A. Rapp, S. Braun, H. Weimer, I. Bloch, A. Rosch
ArXiv:1407.4127
2013
Sudden expansion of Mott insulators in one dimension
L. Vidmar, S. Langer, I.P. McCulloch, U. Schneider, U. Schollwoeck, F. Heidrich-Meisner
Phys. Rev. B 88, 235117 (2013)
Expansion dynamics of interacting bosons in homogeneous lattices in one and two dimensions
J.P. Ronzheimer, M. Schreiber, S. Braun, S.S. Hodgman, S. Langer, I.P. McCulloch, F. Heidrich-Meisner, I. Bloch and U. Schneider
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 205301 (2013)
Dynamical arrest of ultracold lattice fermions
Bernd Schmidt, M. Reza Bakhtiari, Irakli Titvinidze, Ulrich Schneider, Michiel Snoek, and Walter Hofstetter
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 075302 (2013)
Negative Absolute Temperature for Motional Degrees of Freedom
Simon Braun, Jens Philipp Ronzheimer, Michael Schreiber, Sean S. Hodgman, Tim Rom, Immanuel Bloch, Ulrich Schneider
Science 339, 52 (2013)
2012
Fermionic transport and out-of-equilibrium dynamics in a homogeneous Hubbard model with ultracold atoms
Ulrich Schneider, Lucia Hackermüller, Jens Philipp Ronzheimer, Sebastian Will, Simon Braun, Thorsten Best, Immanuel Bloch, Eugene Demler, Stephan Mandt, David Rasch, Achim Rosch
Nature Physics 8, 213-218 (2012)
2011
Adiabatic preparation of a Heisenberg antiferromagnet using an optical superlattice
Michael Lubasch, Valentin Murg, Ulrich Schneider, J. Ignacio Cirac, Mari-Carmen Bañuls
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 155301 (2011)
Coherent Interaction of a Single Fermion with a Small Bosonic Field
Sebastian Will, Thorsten Best, Simon Braun, Ulrich Schneider, and Immanuel Bloch
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 115305 (2011)
2010
Interacting Fermionic Atoms in Optical Lattices – A Quantum Simulator for Condensed Matter Physics
Ulrich Schneider
PhD-Thesis, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 2010
Time-resolved observation of coherent multi-body interactions in quantum phase revivals
Sebastian Will, Thorsten Best, Ulrich Schneider, Lucia Hackermüller, Dirk-Sören Lühmann, Immanuel Bloch
Nature 465, 197-201 (2010)
Anomalous Expansion of Attractively Interacting Fermionic Atoms in an Optical Lattice
Lucia Hackermüller, Ulrich Schneider, Maria Moreno-Cardoner, Takuya Kitagawa, Thorsten Best, Sebastian Will, Eugene Demler, Ehud Altman, Immanuel Bloch, Belén Paredes
Science 327, 1621 (2010)
2009
Role of interactions in 87Rb-40K Bose-Fermi mixtures in a 3d optical lattice
Th. Best, S. Will, U. Schneider, L. Hackermueller, D.-S. Luehmann, D. van Oosten, I. Bloch
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 030408 (2009)
2008
Metallic and Insulating Phases of Repulsively Interacting Fermions in a 3D Optical Lattice
U. Schneider, L. Hackermuller, S. Will, Th. Best, I. Bloch, T. A. Costi, R. W. Helmes, D. Rasch, A. Rosch
Science 322,1520 (2008)
2007
Amplitude and phase control of a coherent superposition of degenerate states. II. Experiment
F.Vewinger, M.Heinz, U.Schneider, C.Barthel, and K.Bergmann
Phys. Rev. A 75, 043407(2007)
2006
Free fermion antibunching in a degenerate atomic Fermi gas released from an optical lattice
T. Rom, Th. Best, D. van Oosten, U. Schneider, S. Fölling, B. Paredes and I. Bloch
Nature 444, 733-736 (2006)
Phase control in a coherent superposition of degenerate quantum states through frequency control
M. Heinz, F. Vewinger, U. Schneider, L.P.Yatsenko, and K. Bergmann
Optics Commun. 264, 248 - 255 (2006)