Piet O. Schmidt
 PTB BraunschweigLeibniz Universität Hannover
Name:Prof. Dr. Piet O.Schmidt 
Address:Bundesallee 100
38116 Braunschweig
Welfengarten 1
30167 Hannover
Room:Laue/506D125
Tel.:+49 531 592 4700+49 511 762 17646
Fax:+49 531 592 69 4700 
E-Mail:piet.schmidt@quantummetrology.de

 

Scientific CV

Scientific Education

10/1991 08/1994undergraduate studies in physics at the University of Konstanz, Germany
09/1994 08/1995graduate studies at the Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, USA
12.08.1995Master of Science in Physics at the Portland State University
Thesis title: "Origins of Effective Charge of Multivalent Ions at a Membrane/Water Interface and Distribution of 2,3,4,5--Tetrachlorophenol in a Membrane Model System"
10/1995 04/1998graduate studies at the University of Konstanz,
Diploma thesis "Light Masks in Atom Lithography" in the group of Prof. J. Mlynek
08/1998 12/2000PhD studies at the University of Konstanz in the group of Prof. J. Mlynek & Prof. T. Pfau
01/2001 03/2003project moved with Prof. T. Pfau to University of Stuttgart, Germany
thesis title: "Scattering Properties of Ultra-cold Chromium Atoms"
 

Scientific Career

04/2004 02/2005

PostDoc at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, USA
in the group of Dr. J.C. Bergquist and Dr. D.J. Wineland as a Feodor-Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation
Project: An optical clock based on a single aluminum ion using quantum logic

03/2005 12/2008University assistant at University of Innsbruck in the group of Prof. R. Blatt
09/2006 12/2008Junior research group leader: "Direct Frequency Comb Spectroscopy using Quantum Logic"
since 01/2009

W3 Professor at the University of Hannover and director of the QUEST Institute for Experimental Quantum Metrology at the PTB in Braunschweig

 

Stipends, Awards, Memberships, Activities

08/1999 – 04/2002PhD stipend from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
07/2004Best thesis award from the "Freunde der Universität Stuttgart" association
11/2003 – 02/2005Feodor-Lynen research fellowship of the Alexander v. Humboldt Foundation
06/2006START research award of the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Arts
04/2010European Time and Frequency Forum (EFTF) Young Scientist Award 2010
11/2020Finalist Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year 2020
since 10/2021Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)
since 01/2022ERC Advanced Grant “FunClocks”
since 07/2016Speaker of the CRC 1227 DQ-mat
since 2017Member of the board of QUEST Leibniz Forschungsschule (QUEST-LFS)
since 2017Member of the board of Hannover Institute of Technology (HITec)
2017 – 2020Scientific coordinator of the BMBF project “opticlock”
2018 – 2021Member of the programme committee “Quantum systems” of the BMBF
since 2019Co-Speaker of the Cluster of Excellence “QuantumFrontiers”
2020Member of the expert council on quantum computing of the federal government of Germany
Since 2020Member of the Board of the European Group on Atomic Systems (EGAS)
Since 2021Co-speaker of the Quantum Valley Lower Saxony Q1 project (QVLS-Q1)
2021 – 2023Member of the CERN SPS Committee
Since 2022Member of the Advisory Board of the “Abbe Center of Photonics” in Jena
Since 2023Member of the Advisory Board of the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung Center for Quantum Photonics (QPhoton)

 

Selected Refereed Publications

 
  1. S. A. King, L. J. Spieß, P. Micke, A. Wilzewski, T. Leopold, E. Benkler, R. Lange, N. Huntemann, A. Surzhykov, V. A. Yerokhin, J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia, and P. O. Schmidt, An optical atomic clock based on a highly charged ion, Nature 611, 43–47 (2022).
  2. S. A. King, L. J. Spieß, P. Micke, A. Wilzewski, T. Leopold, J. R. C. López-Urrutia, and P. O. Schmidt, Algorithmic Ground-state Cooling of Weakly-Coupled Oscillators using Quantum Logic, Phys. Rev. X 11, 041049 (2021).
  3. P. Micke, T. Leopold, S. A. King, E. Benkler, L. J. Spieß, L. Schmöger, M. Schwarz, J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia, P. O. Schmidt, Coherent laser spectroscopy of highly charged ions using quantum logic, Nature 578, 60 (2020).
  4. F. Wolf, C. Shi, J. C. Heip, M. Gessner, L. Pezzè, A. Smerzi, M. Schulte, K. Hammerer, and P. O. Schmidt, Motional fock states for quantum-enhanced amplitude and phase measurements with trapped Ions, Nat. Commun. 10, 2929 (2019).
  5. M. G. Kozlov, M. S. Safronova, J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia, and P. O. Schmidt, Highly charged ions: Optical clocks and applications in fundamental physics, Rev. Mod. Phys. 90, 045005 (2018).
  6. F. Wolf, Y. Wan, J. C. Heip, F. Gebert, C. Shi, and P. O. Schmidt, Non-destructive state detection for quantum logic spectroscopy of molecular ionsNature 530, 457–460 (2016).
  7. M. Schulte, N. Lörch, I. D. Leroux, P. O. Schmidt, and K. Hammerer, Quantum Algorithmic Readout in Multi-Ion ClocksPhys. Rev. Lett. 116, 13002 (2016).
  8. L. Schmöger, O. O. Versolato, M. Schwarz, M. Kohnen, A. Windberger, B. Piest, S. Feuchtenbeiner, J. Pedregosa-Gutierrez, T. Leopold, P. Micke, A. K. Hansen, T. M. Baumann, M. Drewsen, J. Ullrich, P. O. Schmidt, and J. R. C. López-Urrutia, Coulomb crystallization of highly charged ionsScience 347, 1233–1236 (2015).
  9. N. Scharnhorst, J. B. Wübbena, S. Hannig, K. Jakobsen, J. Kramer, I. D. Leroux, and P. O. Schmidt, High-bandwidth transfer of phase stability through a fiber frequency combOpt. Express 23, 19771–19776 (2015).
  10. F. Gebert, Y. Wan, F. Wolf, C. N. Angstmann, J. C. Berengut, and P. O. Schmidt, Precision Isotope Shift Measurements in Calcium Ions Using Quantum Logic Detection SchemesPhys. Rev. Lett. 115, 53003 (2015).
  11. A. D. Ludlow, M. M. Boyd, J. Ye, E. Peik, and P. O. Schmidt, Optical atomic clocksRev. Mod. Phys. 87, 637–701 (2015).
  12. Y. Wan, F. Gebert, J. B. Wübbena, N. Scharnhorst, S. Amairi, I. D. Leroux, B. Hemmerling, N. Lörch, K. Hammerer, and P. O. Schmidt, Precision spectroscopy by photon-recoil signal amplificationNat. Commun. 5, 4096 (2014).
  13. F. Dubin, C. Russo, H. G. Barros, A. Stute, C. Becher, P. O. Schmidt, and R. Blatt, Quantum to classical transition in a single-ion laserNat. Phys. 6, 350–353 (2010).
  14. T. Rosenband, D. B. Hume, P. O. Schmidt, C. W. Chou, A. Brusch, L. Lorini, W. H. Oskay, R. E. Drullinger, T. M. Fortier, J. E. Stalnaker, S. A. Diddams, W. C. Swann, N. R. Newbury, W. M. Itano, D. J. Wineland, and J. C. Bergquist, Frequency Ratio of Al+ and Hg+ Single-Ion Optical Clocks; Metrology at the 17th Decimal PlaceScience 319, 1808–1812 (2008).
  15. P. O. Schmidt, T. Rosenband, C. Langer, W. M. Itano, J. C. Bergquist, and D. J. Wineland, Spectroscopy Using Quantum LogicScience 309, 749–752 (2005).
 

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