After successful completion of the course, students are able to master basic laboratory techniques as well as methods of data acquisition and data analysis. The overall question of the project work, the wider research context as well as the methods used and the results obtained can be presented (usually in the form of a report/protocol).

Using laser cooling, particles can be cooled down to the quantum regime. Until recently, it was assumed that this technique could only be applied to simple atoms, but not to more complex molecules. The aim of the project work is to understand how this is possible and which fundamentally new experiments and insights in the fields of quantum simulation, precision measurements and ultracold chemistry are made possible by this. Possible topics are lasers, quantum optics, molecular physics, electronics, many-body physics and quantum technologies.

Supervised participation in experimental research in a laboratory.

Written and oral.