Department

Photo-Molecular Science, Photo-Molecular Science II

Biography

2011 PhD in Physics, Technical University of Munich / Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
2011 Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
2012 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Photo-Molecular Science, Institute for Molecular Science
2014 Assistant Professor, Department of Photo-Molecular Science, Institute for Molecular Science
2017 Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
2021 Quantum Engineer, Alpine Quantum Technologies GmbH
2026 Research Associate Professor, Department of Photo-Molecular Science, Institute for Molecular Science

Selected Publications

1. Pauline J. Ollitrault, Matthias Loipersberger, Robert M. Parrish, Alexander Erhard, Christine Maier, Christian Sommer, Juris Ulmanis, Thomas Monz, Christian Gogolin, Christofer S. Tautermann, Gian-Luca R. Anselmetti, Matthias Degroote, Nikolaj Moll, Raffaele Santagati, Michael Streif
   “Estimation of Electrostatic Interaction Energies on a Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer”
   ACS Cent. Sci. 10, 882–889 (2024)
2. Michael Reitz, Christian Sommer, Claudiu Genes
   “Cooperative quantum phenomena in light-matter platforms”
   PRX Quantum 3, 010201 (2022)
3. Christian Sommer, Muhammad Asjad, Claudiu Genes
   “Prospects of reinforcement learning for the simultaneous damping of many mechanical modes”
   Sci. Rep. 10, 2623 (2020)
4. Christian Sommer, Claudiu Genes
   “Partial optomechanical refrigeration via multimode cold-damping feedback”
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 203605 (2019)
5. ChunMei Liu, Jörn Manz, Kenji Ohmori, Christian Sommer, Nobuyuki Takei, Jean Christophe Tremblay, Yichi Zhang
   “Attosecond control of restoration of electronic structure symmetry”
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 173201 (2018)
6. Nobuyuki Takei, Christian Sommer, Claudiu Genes, Guido Pupillo, Haruka Goto, Kuniaki Koyasu, Hisashi Chiba, Matthias Weidemüller, Kenji Ohmori
   “Direct observation of ultrafast many-body electron dynamics in an ultracold rydberg gas”
   Nat. Commun. 7, 13449 (2016)
7. Martin Zeppenfeld, Barbara G. U. Englert, Rosa Glöckner, Alexander Prehn, Manuel Mielenz, Christian Sommer, Laurens D. van Buuren, Michael Motsch, Gerhard Rempe
   “Sisyphus cooling of electrically trapped polyatomic molecules”
   Nature 491, 570–573 (2012)
8. L. D. van Buuren, C. Sommer, M. Motsch, S. Pohle, M. Schenk, J. Bayerl, P. W. H. Pinkse, G. Rempe
   “Electrostatic extraction of cold molecules from a cryogenic reservoir”
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 033001 (2009)