Members of the FAU LMQ contribute to the upcoming DPG Spring Meetings

19. February 2026

In the upcoming weeks the annual DPG spring meetings take place. The members of the FAU LMQ contribute a large variety of talks and posters about their current research. Explore the tables below to find out more about the contributions and check out the website of the DPG for more information.

Date Title Authors
02.03., 12:15 Integrated photonics for quantum communications on a
CubeSat		 Jonas Pudelko, Ömer Bayraktar, Luca Vill, Mathias Kühn, Joost
Vermeer, Winfried Boxleitner, Stefan Petscharnig, Christoph Pacher, Gerd
Leuchs, and Christoph Marquardt
02.03., 12:30 Characterisation of a photonic integrated circuit-based QKD
transmitter
 Joost Vermeer, Ömer Bayraktar, Jonas Pudelko, Kevin Günthner, and
Christoph Marquardt
02.03., 17:30 Interplay of collective radiance and particle statistics in quantum
degenerate
gases		 Julian Lyne, Nico Bassler, Kai Phillip Schmidt, and Claudiu
Genes
02.03., 17:30 Interplay of collective radiance and particle statistics in quantum
degenerate gases
 Julian Lyne, Nico Bassler, Kai Phillip Schmidt, and Claudiu
Genes
02.03., 18:00 Narrowband frequency-entangled photon source based on a whispering
gallery resonator
 Yen-Ju Chen, Sheng-Hsuan Huang, Thomas Dirmeier, Kaisa Laiho, Dmitry
V. Strekalov, Andrea Aiello, Gerd Leuchs, and Christoph Marquardt
03.03., 12:45 Training nonlinear optical neural networks with Scattering
Backpropagation
 Nicola Dal Cin, Florian Marquardt, and Clara Wanjura
03.03., 17:00 Self-consistent matter description of the Dicke-Ising chain
 Jonas Leibig, Max Hörmann, Anja Langheld, Andreas Schellenberger,
and Kai Phillip Schmidt
03.03., 17:00 Spatially-varying spin-photon coupling in the antiferromagnetic
Dicke-Ising model
 Anja Langheld and Kai Phillip Schmidt
03.03., 17:00 Multi-Wavelength Stellar Intensity Interferometry with a Telescope
Array
 Iurii Datii, Oren Ironi, Nick Konidaris, Sagi Ben-Ami, and Joachim
von Zanthier
03.03., 17:00 Hanbury Brown-Twiss interference of electrons in free space
 Florian Fleischmann, Mona Bukenberger, Anton Classen, Marc-Oliver
Pleinert, and Joachim von Zanthier
03.03., 17:00 Coupling light from an airplane to a single ion
 Hans Dang, Sebastian Luff, Martin Fischer, Sheng-Hsuan Huang, Thomas
Dirmeier, Markus Sondermann, Christoph Marquardt, and Gerd Leuchs
03.03., 17:00 Towards entanglement swapping between two WGMRs
 Sheng-Hsuan Huang, Yen-Ju Chen, Thomas Dirmeier, Kaisa Laiho, Dmitry
Strekalov, Gerd Leuchs, and Christoph Marquardt
03.03., 17:00 Temperature-dependence of two-color laser-induced currents in
graphene
 Celina Hüttner, Weizhe Li, Daniel Lesko, and Peter Hommelhoff
03.03., 17:00 Optimization of electrode design for future
interaction-free-measurements with electrons
 Fabian Bammes, Franz Schmidt-Kaler, Nils Bode, Michael Seidling,
Robert Zimmermann, Lars Radtke, Justus Walther, and Peter Hommelhoff
03.03., 17:00 Guiding electrons in rotating saddle potentials
 Franz Schmidt-Kaler, Johannes Illmer, Fabian Bammes, and Peter
Hommelhoff
03.03., 17:00 Fractal geometry dictates the scaling of atom-photon bound states
 Florian Bönsel, Federico Roccati, and Flore Kunst
03.03., 17:00 Interacting bosonic system
 Margherita Valenza, Flore K. Kunst, and Anton Montag
03.03., 17:00 Coupling single molecules to high-frequency acoustic vibrations
 Mojtaba Aghakasiri, Mohammad Musavinezhad, Jan Renger, Tobias
Utikal, Felix Mayor, Sultan Malik, Kaveh Pezeshki, Amir Safavi-Naeini,
Vahid Sandoghdar, and Alexey Shkarin
03.03., 17:00 Coupling light from an airplane to a single ion
 Hans Dang, Sebastian Luff, Martin Fischer, Sheng-Hsuan Huang, Thomas
Dirmeier, Markus Sondermann, Christoph Marquardt, and Gerd Leuchs
04.03., 14:30 Hauptvortrag: Cross-process interference in single-cycle electron
emission from metal needle tips
 Anne Herzig, Peter Hommelhoff, Eleftherios Goulielmakis, Thomas
Fennel, and Lennart Seiffert
04.03., 15:45 Frustration effects and self-consistent matter description in the
Dicke-Ising model on the sawtooth chain
 Jonas Leibig, Max Hörmann, Anja Langheld, Andreas Schellenberger,
and Kai Phillip Schmidt
04.03., 17:00 Phase diagrams for dipolar interacting quantum gases
 Robin Ruediger Krill, Jan Alexander Koziol, Anja Langheld, Calvin
Krämer, Giovanna Morigi, and Kai Phillip Schmidt
04.03., 17:00 Towards time-reversing an exponentially rising pulse with a single
ground state cooled 174Yb+ ion
 Sebastian Luff, Hans Dang, Martin Fischer, Markus Sondermann, and
Gerd Leuchs
05.03., 11:45 A new framework for topological plasmonics
 Julius T. Gohsrich, Norman S. Israel, Lora Ramunno, and Flore K.
Kunst
05.03., 12:15 Photocurrent control in a light-dressed Floquet topological
insulator
 Weizhe Li, Daniel Lesko, Tobias Weitz, Simon Wittigschlager,
Christian Heide, Ofer Neufeld, and Peter Hommelhoff
05.03., 12:30 Shot-noise limited discrete QAM signals for airborne quantum
communication
 Stefan Richter, Hüseyin Vural, Thomas Dirmeier, Sheng-Hsuan Huang,
and Christoph Marquardt
05.03., 14:30 Phase-adaptive cooling of fringe-trapped nanoparticles in
hollow-core fiber
 Soumya Chakraborty, Gordon K. L. Wong, Pardeep Kumar, Hyunjun Nam,
Claudiu Genes, and Nicolas Y. Joly
05.03., 14:30 Phase-adaptive cooling of fringe-trapped nanoparticles in
hollow-core fiber
 Soumya Chakraborty, Gordon K. L. Wong, Pardeep Kumar, Hyunjun Nam,
Claudiu Genes, and Nicolas Y. Joly
05.03., 15:00 Multi-Path and Multi-Particle Tests of Complex versus Hyper-Complex
Quantum Theory
 Ece Ipek Saruhan, Joachim von Zanthier, and Marc-Oliver
Pleinert
05.03., 15:45 Perturbative and non-perturbative continuous similarity
transformations for
Lindbladians		 Lea Lenke and Kai Phillip Schmidt
05.03., 16:15 Artificial discovery of lattice models for wave transport
 Jonas Landgraf, Clara Wanjura, Vittorio Peano, and Florian
Marquardt
05.03., 17:00 Implementation of unidirectional modulation of polarization
squeezed states for an experimental free-space continuous-variable
quantum key distribution
scheme		 Jan Schreck, Kevin Jaksch, Thomas Dirmeier, Hüseyin Vural, and
Christoph Marquardt
06.03., 12:00 Enhancing Stimulated Raman Scattering Using Kerr Squeezing
 Nikolay Kalinin, Kilian Scheffter, Seungwon Moon, Hannah Gallop,
Mehdi Alizadeh, Adrian F. Pegoraro, Hanieh Fattahi, Alexey V. Andrianov,
Albert Stolow, Luis L. Sánchez-Soto, and Gerd Leuchs
06.03., 12:15 Symbolic Quantum-Trajectory Method for Multichannel Dicke
Superradiance
 Raphael Holzinger, Nico Baßler, Julian Lyne, Susanne Yelin, and
Claudiu Genes
06.03., 12:30 Towards coherent dipole-dipole coupling of molecular dimers
 Dinesh Reddy, Ashley Shin, Tim Hebenstreit, Siwei Luo, Mikhail
Kalinin, Alexander Oshchepkov, Jan Renger, Tobias Utikal, Konstantin
Amsharov, Vahid Sandoghdar, and Stephan Götzinger
06.03., 12:30 Towards coherent dipole-dipole coupling of molecular dimers
 Dinesh Reddy, Ashley Shin, Tim Hebenstreit, Siwei Luo, Mikhail
Kalinin, Alexander Oshchepkov, Jan Renger, Tobias Utikal, Konstantin
Amsharov, Vahid Sandoghdar, and Stephan Götzinger
06.03., 16:00 Narrow-band resonator-enhanced SPDC source for airborne quantum
communication
 Sheng-Hsuan Huang, Thomas Dirmeier, Hans Dang, Sebastian Luff,
Martin Fischer, Markus Sondermann, Gerd Leuchs, and Christoph
Marquardt
06.03., 16:00 Influence of strain on the metastable state dynamics of silicon
vacancy centers in 4H Silicon Carbide
 Maximilian Hollendonner, Fedor Hrunski, Durga B. R. Dasari,
Maximilian Schober, Michel Bockstedte, and Roland Nagy
06.03., 16:00 Narrow-band resonator-enhanced SPDC source for airborne quantum
communication
 Sheng-Hsuan Huang, Thomas Dirmeier, Hans Dang, Sebastian Luff,
Martin Fischer, Markus Sondermann, Gerd Leuchs, and Christoph
Marquardt

Date Title Authors
09.03., 10:15 Theoretical Investigation of Intrinsically Patterned 2D Transition
Metal Halides: Defects, Structure, and Magnetic Phenomena
 Neeta Bisht, Andreas Görling, Feifei Xiang, Binbin Da, Mohammad
Sajjan, Sabine Maier, and Christian Neiß
09.03., 10:30 Real-frequency DMFT for multi-orbital models with the neural
network configuration interaction impurity solver
 Alexander Kowalski, Philipp Hansmann, Giorgio Sangiovanni, and
Adriana Pálffy
09.03., 10:45 Frustration effects and self-consistent matter description in the
Dicke-Ising model on the sawtooth chain
 Jonas Leibig, Max Hörmann, Anja Langheld, Andreas Schellenberger,
and Kai Phillip Schmidt
09.03., 11:45 Hauptvortrag: Lightwave-driven electrons in a Floquet topological
insulator
 Daniel Lesko, Tobias Weitz, Weizhe Li, Selina Nöcker, Celina
Hüttner, Tamara Pröbster, Simon Wittigschlager, Christian Heide, Ofer
Neufeld, and Peter Hommelhoff
09.03., 18:00 Quantum Phase Transitions of Kitaev’s Toric Code on a Honeycomb
lattice
 Viktor Kott, Matthias Mühlhauser, Jan Alexander Koziol, and Kai
Phillip Schmidt
09.03., 18:00 The XY Toric Code on the Kagome lattice
 Constanze Kölbl, Maximilian Vieweg, and Kai Phillip Schmidt
09.03., 18:00 Stochastic series expansion quantum Monte Carlo for quantum lattice
models beyond spin 1/2
 Melanie A. R. Wolf, Anja Langheld, Calvin Krämer, Jan Alexander
Koziol, and Kai Phillip Schmidt
09.03., 18:00 Convergence behavior of non-perturbative linked-cluster expansions
at criticality
 Harald Leiser, Max Hörmann, and Kai Phillip Schmidt
09.03., 18:00 Structural analyses for S and Te on transition metal chain-like
phases on the Ir(100) substrate
 Eric Engel, Alexander Wegerich, and M. Alexander Schneider
10.03., 09:45 Quantum annealing for lattice models with long-range interactions
 Jan Alexander Koziol and Kai Phillip Schmidt
10.03., 10:15 Quantum algorithm for one quasi-particle excitations in the
thermodynamic limit via cluster-additive block-diagonalization
 Sumeet Sumeet, Max Hörmann, and Kai Phillip Schmidt
10.03., 10:30 Phophangulenes on Au(111): comparing the influence of the
environment on single molecule rotation
 Wyatt Highland, Sajjan Mohammad, Paul Philip Schmidt, Roberto
Robles, Milan Kivala, Nicolas Lorente, Meike Stöhr, and Sabine
Maier
10.03., 10:45 Kognitive Entlastung und affektiv-motivationale Förderung beim
Physiklernen: Ein empirischer Vergleich von KI-Chatbots und gestuften
Hilfen
 Eleonore Becker, Johannes Wünsche, Joaquin Veith, Johanna Schrader
und Philipp Bitzenbauer
10.03., 10:45 Self-assembly and electronic properties of functionalized
norbornadiene photoswitches on Au(111) and graphene/Ir(111)
 Shreya Garg, Roberto Robles, Pedro Ferreira, Kasper Moth-Poulsen,
Nicolas Lorente, Meike Stöhr, and Sabine Maier
10.03., 11:00 Validation of the Rotational Degrees of Freedom in Azobenzene
Subphthalocyanine		 Dominik Volavka, Wyatt Highland, Bartosz Szczefanowicz, Rebecci
Samuele, Roberto Robles, Nicolas Lorente, Meike Stöhr, and Sabine
Maier
10.03., 11:00 Agentic Exploration of Physics Models
 Maximilian Nägele and Florian Marquardt
10.03., 14:00 Circuit Nodes – Modulare 3D-gedruckte Schaltungskomponenten für den
Physikunterricht
 Hans Kubitschke, Fabian Hennig, Jonas Gleichmann, Jörg Schnauß und
Philipp Bitzenbauer
10.03., 14:00 Kognitive Dimensionen mentaler Modelle Lernender zur (linearen)
Polarisation von Licht
 Judith Schmid, Joaquin Veith und Philipp Bitzenbauer
10.03., 14:00 Quantum AR Lab: Das Quantenoptik-Labor für Schule und Co. in
Augmented-Reality
 Philipp Bitzenbauer, Judith Schmid und Malte Ubben
10.03., 14:00 Tuning molecular self-assembly of BDA on CsPbBr3(100)
 Hannah Loh, Milan Möller, and M. Alexander Schneider
10.03., 14:45 Structural analysis of the interaction of H2S with the FeO2 chain
phase on Ir(100)
 Alexander Wegerich, Eric Engel, and M. Alexander Schneider
11.03., 12:00 Interferometric and Fluorescence Nanoparticle Tracking for Analysis
of Extracellular Vesicles
 Shuhan Jiang, Anna Kashkanova, Morgan Miller, Hannarae Lee, Hamed
Qazvini, and Vahid Sandoghdar
11.03., 15:00 On the Dynamics of Local Hidden-Variable Models
 Nick von Selzam and Florian Marquardt
11.03., 15:00 Using 1/N graph expansions to explore the mesoscopic regime of
strongly correlated systems
 Andreas Schellenberger, Lidia Stocker, and Kai Phillip Schmidt
11.03., 16:00 SOLAX: An Open Source Python Package for Neural Network
Configuration Interaction
 Pavlo Bilous, Louis Thirion, Max Kroesbergen, Paul Fadler, and
Philipp Hansmann
11.03., 16:30 Non-Hermitian physics and exceptional points at Z2 Weyl
semimetal*ferromagnet junctions
 Tong Wang, Robert Amelung, and Flore Kunst
11.03., 18:00 Exploring Zincblende (100) Semiconductor Surfaces as Platforms for
Correlated Adatom Lattices
 Olga Kashirina, Niklas Enderlein, and Philipp Hansmann
11.03., 18:00 Engineering correlated electrons in adatom lattices on
semiconductors
 Tim Kullick, Niklas Enderlein, Henri Menke, Giorgio Sangiovanni, and
Philipp Hansmann
11.03., 18:00 Strong-Field Bloch Electron Interferometry for Band-Structure
Retrieval
 Tamara Pröbster, Tobias Weitz, Christian Heide, and Peter
Hommelhoff
11.03., 18:00 An Efficient Error Correction Protocol Variant for Field Tests of
Continuous-Variable Quantum Key
Distribution		 Lukas Eisemann, Stefan Richter, Hüseyin Vural, Ömer Bayraktar, Kevin
Jaksch, and Christoph Marquardt
11.03., 18:00 GRAPE with feedback: the method and the Python package
 Pavlo Bilous and Florian Marquardt
11.03., 18:00 Effects of geometry on the error threshold of the toric code
 Daniel Lessing, Calvin Kraemer, Jan Alexander Koziol, Anja Langheld,
and Kai Phillip Schmidt
11.03., 18:00 Defects and Initial Approaches to TMDC Heterostructure Growth on
PtxTey films
 Isabella Stollberg, Andreas Raabgrund, and M. Alexander
Schneider
12.03., 09:30 Lineon Condensation in the XY toric code
 Maximilian Vieweg, Viktor Kott, Matthias Mühlhauser, and Kai Phillip
Schmidt
12.03., 10:30 Interplay of flexibility, coverage, and host-guest interaction in
the self-assembly of Tris(4-carboxyphenyl)amine (TCA) on Au(111)
 Vishakya Jayalatharachchi, Paul Philip Schmidt, Roberto Robles,
Nicolas Lorente, Meike Stöhr, and Sabine Maier
12.03., 10:30 Controlling experiments and recording FAIR data with NOMAD CAMELS –
FAIR Data Workflow
 Alexander Fuchs, Michael Krieger, and Heiko Weber
12.03., 15:30 From self-consistent DFT+DMFT to the two-particle level: Magnetic
phase diagram of X:SiC(111)
 Lukas Bongardt, Niklas Enderlein, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Philipp
Hansmann, and Henri Menke
12.03., 16:00 Imaging viral infection in live cells with confocal interferometric
scattering microscopy (iSCAT)
 Anirudh Khemani, David Albrecht, Jan Renger, Marco Heisig, Kiarash
Kasaian, and Vahid Sandoghdar
13.03., 11:30 Self-consistent mean-field theory and continuous unitary
transformations for ordered quantum antiferromagnets with long-range
interactions		 Maximilian Bayer, Dag-Björn Hering, Vanessa Sulaiman, Götz Uhrig,
and Kai Schmidt