Journal articles

 Xin Wang, Thilina Muthu-Arachchige, Tangi Legrand, Ludwig Müller, Wolfgang Alt, Sebastian Hofferberth, Eduardo Uruñuela, "Two-color Ytterbium MOT in a compact dual-chamber setup", arXiv:2408.03310 (2024)

Frederic Hummel, Sebastian Weber, Johannes Moegerle, Henri Menke, Jonathan King, Benjamin Bloom, Sebastian Hofferberth, Ming Li, "Engineering Rydberg-pair interactions in divalent atoms with hyperfine-split ionization thresholds",  arXiv:2408.00195 (2024), Phys. Rev. A 110, 042821 (2024)

Lida Zhang, Nina Stiesdal, Hannes Busche, Mikkel Gaard Hansen, Thomas Pohl, Sebastian Hofferberth, "Interplay of electromagnetically induced transparency and Doppler broadening in hot atomic vapors", New Journal of Physics 26 075002 (2024) , arXiv:2403.01553,

Lukas Tenbrake, Alexander Faßbender, Sebastian Hofferberth, Stefan Linden and Hannes Pfeifer, "Direct laser-written optomechanical membranes in fiber Fabry-Perot cavities", Nature Communications volume 15, Article number: 209 (2024), arXiv:2212.13432

Karol Krzempek, Piotr Jaworski, Lukas Tenbrake, Florian Giefer, Dieter Meschede, Sebastian Hofferberth and Hannes Pfeifer, "Photothermal gas detection using a miniaturized fiber Fabry-Perot cavity", Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, Volume 401, 15 February 2024, 135040, arXiv:2311.12536

Jan Kumlin, Christoph Braun, Christoph Tresp, Nina Stiesdal, Sebastian Hofferberth, and Asaf Paris-Mandoki, "Quantum optics with Rydberg superatoms",  Journal of Physics Communications, Volume 7, Number 5 (2023), arXiv:2312.03649

Kevin Kleinbeck, Hannes Busche, Nina Stiesdal, Sebastian Hofferberth, Klaus Mølmer, and Hans Peter Büchler, "Creation of nonclassical states of light in a chiral waveguide", Phys. Rev. A 107, 013717, arXiv:2210.09216

Alessandro Ferreri, Hannes Pfeifer, Frank K. Wilhelm, Sebastian Hofferberth, David Edward Bruschi, "On the interplay between optomechanics and the dynamical Casimir effect", Phys. Rev. A 106, 033502 (2022), https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.10724

Hannes Pfeifer, Lothar Ratschbacher, Jose Gallego, Carlos Saavedra, Alexander Faßbender, Andreas von Haaren, Wolfgang Alt, Sebastian Hofferberth, Michael Köhl, Stefan Linden, Dieter Meschede, "Achievements and Perspectives of Optical Fiber Fabry-Perot Cavities", Appl. Phys. B 128, 29 (2022),  arXiv:2111.08533

T. P. Rasmussen, P. A. D. Gonçalves, Sanshui Xiao, Sebastian Hofferberth, N. Asger Mortensen, and Joel D. Cox, Polaritons in Two-Dimensional Parabolic Waveguides, "Polaritons in Two-Dimensional Parabolic Waveguides", ACS Photonics 2021, 8, 6, 1840–1846 (2021), arXiv:2108.04808

Nina Stiesdal, Hannes Busche, Kevin Kleinbeck, Jan Kumlin, Mikkel G. Hansen, Hans Peter Büchler, Sebastian Hofferberth, "Controlled multi-photon subtraction with cascaded Rydberg superatoms as single-photon absorbers", Nat. Commun. 12, 4328 (2021) , arXiv:2103.15738

T. P. Rasmussen, P. A. D. Gonçalves, S. Xiao, S. Hofferberth, N. A. Mortensen, and J. D. Cox, "Polaritons in Two-Dimensional Parabolic Waveguides" ACS Photonics 2021 8 (6), 1840-1846 (2021), arXiv:2108.04808

N. Stiesdal, H. Busche, J. Kumlin, K. Kleinbeck, H. P. Büchler, and S. Hofferberth, "Observation of collective decay dynamics of a single Rydberg superatom", Phys. Rev. Research 2, 043339 (2020) , arXiv:2005.05089

Jan Kumlin, Kevin Kleinbeck, Nina Stiesdal, Hannes Busche, Sebastian Hofferberth, and Hans Peter Büchler, "Nonexponential decay of a collective excitation in an atomic ensemble coupled to a one-dimensional waveguide", Phys. Rev. A. 102, 063703 (2020)96,  arXiv:2006.14977

Przemyslaw Bienias, James Douglas, Asaf Paris-Mandoki, Paraj Titum, Ivan Mirgorodskiy, Christoph Tresp, Emil Zeuthen, Michael J Gullans, Marco Manzoni, Sebastian Hofferberth, Darrick Chang, Alexey V Gorshkov, "Photon propagation through dissipative Rydberg media at large input rates",  Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033049 (2020), arXiv:1807.07586

N. Stiesdal, J. Kumlin, K. Kleinbeck, P. Lunt, C. Braun, A. Paris-Mandoki, C. Tresp, H. P. Büchler, and S. Hofferberth, “Observation of Three-Body Correlations for Photons Coupled to a Rydberg Superatom”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 103601 (2018), arXiv:1806.00062

J. Kumlin, S. Hofferberth and H. P. Büchler, “Emergent Universal Dynamics for an Atomic Cloud Coupled to an Optical Waveguide”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 013601 (2018), arXiv:1803.08837

A. Paris-Mandoki, C. Braun, S. Hofferberth, “Correlations between interacting Rydberg atoms”, AIP Conference Proceedings 1950, 020001 (2018)

C. Murray, I. Mirgorodskiy, C. Tresp, C.Braun, A. Paris-Mandoki, A. V. Gorshkov, S. Hofferberth, and T. Pohl, “Photon Subtraction by Many-Body Decoherence”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 113601 (2018) , arXiv:1710.10047

A. Paris-Mandoki*, C. Braun*, J. Kumlin, C. Tresp, I. Mirgorodskiy, F. Christaller, H. P. Büchler, and S. Hofferberth, “Free-Space Quantum Electrodynamics with a single Rydberg superatom”, Phys. Rev. X, 41010 (2017) , arXiv:1705.04128

I. Mirgorodskiy, F. Christaller, C. Braun, A. Paris-Mandoki, C. Tresp, and S. Hofferberth, “Electromagnetically induced transparency of ultralong-range Rydberg molecules”, Phys. Rev. A 96, 011402 rapid communication (2017), arXiv:1705.03700

S. Weber, C. Tresp, H. Menke, A. Urvoy, O. Firstenberg, H. P. Büchler, and S. Hofferberth, “Tutorial: Calculations of Rydberg interaction potentials”, J. Phys. B, 50,13 (2017), arXiv:1612.08053

C. Tresp, C. Braun und S. Hofferberth, “Superatom schluckt einzelnes Photon”, Physik in unserer Zeit. 48, 2 (2017)

T. Karpiuk, M. Brewczyk, K. Rzazewski, A. Gaj, A. T. Krupp, R. Löw, S. Hofferberth and T. Pfau, “Condensate losses and oscillations induced by Rydberg atoms”, J. Phys. B 50, 055003 (2017), arXiv:1610.03686

K. Macieszczak, Y. Zhou, S. Hofferberth, J. P. Garrahan, W. Li and I. Lesanovsky, “Metastable decoherence-free subspaces and electromagnetically induced transparency in interacting many-body systems”, Phys. Rev. A 96, 043860 (2017), arXiv:1706.00714

C. Tresp, C. Zimmer, I. Mirgorodskiy, H. Gorniaczyk, A. Paris-Mandoki, and S. Hofferberth, “Single-photon absorber based on strongly interacting Rydberg atoms”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 223001 (2016), arXiv:1605.04456

A. Paris-Mandoki, H. Gorniaczyk, C.Tresp, I. Mirgorodskiy, S. Hofferberth, “Tailoring Rydberg interactions via Förster resonances: state combinations, hopping and angular dependence”, J. Phys. B 49, 164001 (2016), arXiv:1605.00259

H. Gorniaczyk, C. Tresp, P. Bienias, A. Paris-Mandoki, W. Li, I. Mirgorodskiy, H. P. Büchler, I. Lesanovsky, S. Hofferberth, “Enhancement of single-photon transistor by Stark-tuned Förster resonances”, Nature Commun. 7, 12480 (2016), arXiv:1511.09445

O. Firstenberg, C. S. Adams and S. Hofferberth, “Nonlinear quantum optics mediated by Rydberg interactions”, J. Phys. B 49, 152003 (2016), arXiv:1602.06117

M. Schlagmüller, T. C. Liebisch, F. Engel, K. S. Kleinbach, F. Böttcher, U. Hermann, K. M. Westphal, A. Gaj, R. Löw, S. Hofferberth, T. Pfau, J. Pérez-R\ios and C. H. Greene, “Ultracold Chemical Reactions of a Single Rydberg Atom in a Dense Gas”, Phys. Rev. X, 6, 031020 (2016),  arXiv:1605.04883

R. Stevenson, J. Minar, S. Hofferberth, I. Lesanovsky, “Prospects of charged-oscillator quantum-state generation with Rydberg atoms”, Phys. Rev. A, 94, 043813 (2016), arXiv:1604.03925

F. Böttcher, A. Gaj, K. M. Westphal, M. Schlagmüller, K. S. Kleinbach, R. Löw, T. C. Liebisch, T. Pfau and S. Hofferberth, “Observation of mixed singlet-triplet Rb2 Rydberg molecules”, Phys. Rev. A, 93, 032512 (2016), arXiv:1510.01097

A. Paris-Mandoki, H. Gorniaczyk, C. Tresp, I. Mirgorodskiy, C. Zimmer and S. Hofferberth, “Free-space single-photon transistor based on Rydberg interaction”, Proc. SPIE, 9900, 99000U-99000U-8 (2016)

T. C. Liebisch, M. Schlagmüller, F. Engel, H. Nguyen, J. Balewski, G. Lochead, F. Böttcher, K. M. Westphal, K. S. Kleinbach, T. Schmid, A. Gaj, R. Löw, S. Hofferberth, T. Pfau, J. Perez-Rios and C. H. Greene, “Controlling Rydberg atom excitations in dense background gases”, J. Phys. B 49, 182001 (2016), arXiv:1607.01325

M. Schlagmüller, T. C. Liebisch, H. Nguyen, G. Lochead, F. Engel, F. Böttcher, K. M. Westphal, K. S. Kleinbach, R. Löw, S. Hofferberth, T. Pfau, J. Pérez-Rios and C. H. Greene, “Probing an Electron Scattering Resonance using Rydberg Molecules within a Dense and Ultracold Gas”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 116, 053001 (2016), arXiv:1510.07003

C. Tresp, P. Bienias, S. Weber, H. Gorniaczyk, I. Mirgorodskyi, H. P. Büchler. S. Hofferberth, “Dipolar Dephasing of Rydberg D-state polaritons”, Phys. Rev. Lett 115, 083602, arXiv:1505.03723

A. Gaj, A. T. Krupp, P. Ilzhöfer, R. Löw, S. Hofferberth and T. Pfau, “Hybridization of Rydberg Electron Orbitals by Molecule Formation”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 115, 023001 (2015), arXiv:1503.04724

T. Karpiuk, M. Brewczyk, K. Rzazewski, A. Gaj, J. B. Balewski, A. T. Krupp, M. Schlagmueller, R. Loew, S. Hofferberth and T. Pfau, “Imaging single Rydberg electrons in a Bose-Einstein condensate”, New Journal of Physics, 17, 053046 (2015),  arXiv:1402.6875

H. Gorniaczyk, C. Tresp, J. Schmidt, H. Fedder, and S. Hofferberth, “Single Photon Transistor Mediated by Inter-State Rydberg Interaction”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 053601, arXiv:1404.2876

W. Li, D. Viscor, S. Hofferberth, and I. Lesanovsky, “Electromagnetically induced transparency in an entangled medium”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 112, 243601 (2014), arXiv:1404.0311

A. Gaj, A. T. Krupp, J. B. Balewski, R. Loew, S. Hofferberth and T. Pfau, “From molecular spectra to a density shift in dense Rydberg gases”, Nature Comm., 5, 4546 (2014), arXiv:1404.5761

A.T. Krupp, A. Gaj, J.B. Balewski, P. Ilzhöfer, S. Hofferberth, R. Löw, T. Pfau, M. Kurz, P. Schmelcher, “Alignment of D-state Rydberg molecules”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 143008, arXiv:1401.4111

Jonathan Balewski & Sebastian Hofferberth, “Riesenatom im Bose-Einstein-Kondensat”, Physik in unserer Zeit 45, 59–60, DOI: 10.1002/piuz.201490027

J.B. Balewski, A.T. Krupp, A. Gaj, S. Hofferberth, R. Löw, T. Pfau, “Rydberg dressing: Understanding of collective many-body effects and implications for experiments”, New J. Phys. 16 (2014) 063012, arXiv:1312.6346

O. Firstenberg, M.D. Lukin, T. Peyronel, Q.-Y. Liang, V. Vuletic, A.V. Gorshkov, S. Hofferberth, and T. Pohl, “Quantum Nonlinear Optics: Strongly Interacting Photons”, Optics and Photonics News 24, 48, doi:10.1364/OPN.24.12.000048

J. Balewski, A. Krupp, A. Gaj, D. Peter, H.P. Büchler, R. Löw, S. Hofferberth, “Coupling a single electron to a Bose-Einstein condensate”, Nature, 502, 664-667 (2013), arXiv:1306.5181

T. Peyronel, O. Firstenberg, Q. Liang, S. Hofferberth, A.V. Gorshkov, T. Pohl, M.D. Lukin, and V. Vuletic, “Quantum nonlinear optics with single photons enabled by strongly interacting atoms”, Nature 488, 57-60 (2012),

J. Nipper, J. B. Balewski, A. T. Krupp, S. Hofferberth, R. Löw, and T. Pfau, “Atomic Pair-State Interferometer: Controlling and Measuring an Interaction-Induced Phase Shift in Rydberg-Atom Pairs”, Phys. Rev. X 2, 031011 (2012), arXiv:1203.1851

T. Peyronel, M. Bajcsy, S. Hofferberth, V. Balic, M. Hafezi, Q. Liang, A.S. Zibrov, V. Vuletic, and M .D. Lukin, “Switching and Counting with Atomic Vapors in Photonic-Crystal Fibers”, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 18, 1747-1753 (2012)

B. Olmos, W. Li, S. Hofferberth, and I. Lesanovsky, “Amplifying single impurities immersed in a gas of ultracold atoms”, Phys. Rev. A 84, 041607 (2011),

M. Bajcsy, S. Hofferberth, T. Peyronel, V. Balic, Q. Liang, A.S. Zibrov, V. Vuletic, and M.D. Lukin, “Laser-cooled atoms inside a hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber”, Phys. Rev A 83, 063830 (2011),

D. A. Smith, S. Aigner, S. Hofferberth, M. Gring, M. Andersson, S. Wildermuth, P. Krüger, S. Schneider, T. Schumm, and J. Schmiedmayer, “Absorption imaging of ultracold atoms on atom chips”, Opt. Express 19, 8471-8485 (2011), 

P. Krüger, S. Hofferberth, I. E. Mazets, I. Lesanovsky, and J. Schmiedmayer, “Weakly Interacting Bose Gas in the One-Dimensional Limit”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 265302 (2010),

S. Manz, R. Bücker, T. Betz, Ch. Koller, S. Hofferberth, I. E. Mazets, A. Imambekov, E. Demler, A. Perrin, J. Schmiedmayer, and T. Schumm, “Two-point density correlations of quasicondensates in free expansion”, Phys. Rev. A 81 (rapid), 031610 (2010),

M. Bajcsy, S. Hofferberth, V. Balic, T. Peyronel, M. Hafezi, A. S. Zibrov, V. Vuletic, M. D. Lukin, “Efficient all-optical switching using slow light within a hollow fiber”, Physics Viewpoint: “Optical switching with cold atoms”, Physics 2, 41 (2009) , DOI: 10.1103/Physics.2.41 Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 203902 (2009),

D. Gallego, S. Hofferberth, T. Schumm, P. Krüger, and J. Schmiedmayer, “Optical lattice on an atom chip”, Opt. Lett. 34, 3463-3465 (2009),

M. Bajcsy, S. Hofferberth, V. Balic, T. Peyronel, M. Hafezi, A. S. Zibrov, V. Vuletic, M. D. Lukin, “Few photon switching with slow light in hollow fiber”, Proceedings of SPIE 7226 (2009),

S. Hofferberth, I. Lesanovsky, T. Schumm, A. Imambekov, V. Gritsev, E. Demler, J. Schmiedmayer, “Probing quantum and thermal noise in an interacting many-body system”, Nature Physics 4, 489 – 495 (2008),

S. Hofferberth, I. Lesanovsky, B. Fischer, T. Schumm, J. Schmiedmayer, “Non-equilibrium coherence dynamics in one-dimensional Bose gases”, Nature 449, 324-327 (2007),

P. Kruger, L. M. Andersson, S. Wildermuth, S. Hofferberth, E. Haller, S. Aigner, S. Groth, I. Bar-Joseph, J. Schmiedmayer, “Potential roughness near lithographically fabricated atom chips”, Phys. Rev. A 76, 063621 (2007),

S. Hofferberth, B. Fischer, T. Schumm, J. Schmiedmayer, and I. Lesanovsky, “Ultracold atoms in radio-frequency dressed potentials beyond the rotating-wave approximation”, Phys. Rev. A 76, 013401 (2007),

T. Schumm, S. Hofferberth, L. M. Andersson, S. Wildermuth, S. Groth, I. Bar-Joseph, J. Schmiedmayer, and P. Krüger, “Matter-wave interferometry in a double well on an atom chip”, Nature Physics 1, 57 (2005)

B. Zhang, C. Henkel, E. Haller, S. Wildermuth, S. Hofferberth, P. Krüger, and J. Schmiedmayer, “Relevance of sub-surface chip layers for the lifetime of magnetically trapped atoms”, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjd/e2005-00227-1

S. Wildermuth, S. Hofferberth, I. Lesanovsky, E. Haller, L. M. Andersson, S. Groth, I. Bar-Joseph, P. Krüger, and J. Schmiedmayer, “Microscopic magnetic-field imaging”, Nature 435, 440 (2005)

P. Krüger, S. Wildermuth, S. Hofferberth, L. M. Andersson, S. Groth, I. Bar-Joseph, and J. Schmiedmayer, “Cold Atoms close to surfaces: Measuring magnetic field roughness and disorder potentials”, Journal of Physics Conference Series 19, 56 (2005)

P. Krüger, S. Hofferberth, E. Haller, S. Wildermuth, L. M. Andersson, D. Gallego Garcia, S. Aigner, S. Groth, I. Bar-Joseph, and J. Schmiedmayer, “Ultracold atoms on atom chips: Manipulation at the µm distance scale”, AIP Conference Proceedings, 770, Issue 1, 144 (2005)