Servaas Kokkelmans
Department / Institute
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RESEARCH PROFILE
Servaas Kokkelmans is full Professor and leader of the Coherence and Quantum Technology group in the Department of Applied Physics at Eindhoven University of Technology and scientific director of the Center for Quantum Materials and Technology Eindhoven QT/e. His research focuses on strongly-interacting quantum gases and neutral atom quantum computing. He is an expert on the manipulation of interatomic interactions. Kokkelmans research impacts on the development of quantum materials and quantum computers, and on the fundamental understanding of superfluidity.
Kokkelmans has expertise in the many-body properties of strongly interacting Fermi and Bose gases, ultracold collisions, Feshbach resonances as tool for few-body physics including ultracold molecules and Efimov trimers, ultracold plasmas and Rydberg atoms.
A quantum simulator is designed to explore specific problems, for instance in quantum chemistry and bio-molecular physics, where there are important open questions related to energy transport and molecular structures.”
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Servaas Kokkelmans studied Physics at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), obtaining his MSc in 1996 and his PhD on interacting atoms in clocks and condensates in 2000. After this he went abroad for two two-year postdoctoral research positions. The first at JILA, University of Colorado (USA) and the second at Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS (France). In 2004, he returned to TU/e to take on the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Physics at TU/e. In 2017, Kokkelmans became Associate Professor at TU/e. In 2018, he founded the Center for Quantum Materials and Technology Eindhoven QT/e. He is also a co-founder of the Eindhoven Hendrik Casimir institute, that started in 2021. In 2023, he became full professor at TU/e.
Key Publications
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Higgs oscillations in a unitary Fermi superfluid
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Emergent inflation of the Efimov spectrum under three-body spin-exchange interactions
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Pulse-based Variational Quantum Optimal Control for hybrid quantum computing
Quantum (2023) -
Total control over ultracold interactions via electric and magnetic fields
Physical Review Letters (2008) -
Ramsey fringes in a Bose-Einstein condensate between atoms and molecules
Physical Review Letters (2002)
Prizes & Grants
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2015NWO Vici Award : From neutron star to quantum computerCoherence and Quantum Technology
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2003Atomic gases with strong interactionsCoherence and Quantum Technology
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2021Teacher Award of Appreciation Applied PhysicsCoherence and Quantum Technology
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2016Visiting Scientist Fellowship JILACoherence and Quantum Technology
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2010Eindhoven University of Technology Fund for ExcellenceCoherence and Quantum Technology
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