Florian Meinert

SS 2025    Lecture: Advanced Atomic Physics II
WS 2024/25    Lecture: Advanced Atomic Physics I
SS 2024    Vertiefung: Modern Topics in Atomic Physics
WS 2023/24    Tutorial for Advanced Atomic Physics I
SS 2023    Vertiefung: Modern Topics in Atomic Physics
WS 2022/23    Advanced Lab Course: Quantum Computing
SS 2022    Vertiefung: Modern Topics in Atomic Physics
WS 2021/22    Teaching assistant for Experimental Physics III
SS 2021    Vertiefung: Modern Topics in Atomic Physics
WS 2020/21    Teaching assistant for Experimental Physics III
SS 2020     Tutorial for Advanced Atomic Physics II
WS 2019/20    Tutorial for Advanced Atomic Physics I
SS 2019    Tutorial for Advanced Atomic Physics II
WS 2018/19    Tutorial for Advanced Atomic Physics I
SS 2018    Advanced Lab Course: Magneto Optical Trap
WS 2017/18    Advanced Lab Course: Magneto Optical Trap
SS 2017    Advanced Lab Course: Magneto Optical Trap
WS 2016/17    Advanced Lab Course: Magneto Optical Trap

• since 12/2021: Group leader of the research group “Quantum computing and simulation with Rydberg atoms”
• 09/2016 - 12/2021: Group leader at the 5th Institute of Physics of the University of Stuttgart
• 07/2016 - 09/2016: Postdoctoral researcher in H.-C. Nägerl's group at the University of Innsbruck (Austria)
• 2012 - 2016: Doctoral student at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) in Hanns-Christoph Nägerl's group (Dissertation: "Quantum dynamics in strongly correlated one-dimensional Bose gases")
• 2005 - 2012: Study of physics at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg (Germany) and the University of Ottawa (Canada). Diploma thesis in Hanspeter Helm's group

• 2022: Quantum Futur Grant
• 2019: IQST Early Career Network Fellow
• 2018: Liechtenstein Prize
• 2018: Fellow of the Elite Program of the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung
• 2017: Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Carl-Zeiss-Foundation
• 2017: IQOQI Thesis Prize of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
• 2017: DPG SAMOP Thesis Prize of the German Physical Society
• 2015: LFUI Best Student Paper Award by the University of Innsbruck
• 2008: Baden-Württemberg Scholarship
• 2007-2012: Studienstiftung Scholarship

Key Publications

(full list of publications: Google Scholar)

E. Pultinevicius, A. Götzelmann, F. Thielemann, C. Hölzl, and F. Meinert,
Long-lived giant circular Rydberg atoms at room temperature,
submitted, preprint: arXiv:2510.27471(2025).

M. Wirth, C. Hölzl, A. Götzelmann, E. Pultinevicius, and F. Meinert,
Quadrupole Coupling of Circular Rydberg Qubits to Inner Shell Excitations,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 123403 (2024).

C. Hölzl, A. Götzelmann, E. Pultinevicius, M. Wirth, and F. Meinert,
Long-Lived Circular Rydberg Qubits of Alkaline-Earth Atoms in Optical Tweezers,
Phys. Rev. X 14, 021024 (2024).

G. Unnikrishnan, P. Ilzhöfer, A. Scholz, C. Hölzl, A. Götzelmann, R. K. Gupta, J. Zhao, J. Krauter, S. Weber, N. Makki, H. P. Büchler, T. Pfau, and F. Meinert,
Coherent Control of the Fine-Structure Qubit in a Single Alkaline-Earth Atom,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 150606 (2024).

N. Zuber, V. S. V. Anasuri, M. Berngruber, Y.-Q. Zou, F. Meinert, R. Löw, and T. Pfau,
Observation of a molecular bond between ions and Rydberg atoms,
Nature 605, 453 (2022).

T. Dieterle, M. Berngruber, C. Hölzl, R. Löw, K. Jachymski, T. Pfau, and F. Meinert, 
Transport of a single cold ion immersed in a Bose-Einstein condensate,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 033401 (2021).

F. Engel, T. Dieterle, F. Hummel, C. Fey, P. Schmelcher, R. Löw, T. Pfau, and F. Meinert,
Precision spectroscopy of negative-ion resonances in ultralong-range Rydberg molecules,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 073003 (2019).

K. S. Kleinbach, F. Engel, T. Dieterle, R. Löw, T. Pfau, and F. Meinert,
Ionic Impurity in a Bose-Einstein Condensate at Submicrokelvin Temperatures,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 193401 (2018).

F. Meinert, M. Knap, E. Kirilov, K. Jag-Lauber, M. B. Zvonarev, E. Demler, and H.-C. Nägerl,
Bloch oscillations in the absence of a lattice,
Science 356, 945-948 (2017).

F. Meinert, M. J. Mark, E. Kirilov, K. Lauber, P. Weinmann, M. Gröbner, A. J. Daley, and H.-C. Nägerl,
Observation of many-body dynamics in long-range tunnelling after a quantum quench,
Science 344, 1259-1262 (2014).