Tanja Mehlstäubler

Tanja Mehlstäubler
Tanja Mehlstäubler
	Mehlstäubler in 2016
Born	Tanja Elisabeth Mehlstäubler; Passau, Germany
Known for	Topological defects in ion Coulomb crystal ; Multi-Ion Clock
	Scientific career
Fields	Quantum physics
Institutions	Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt; Leibniz University Hannover; Paris Observatory; Stony Brook University; University of Würzburg

Tanja Elisabeth Mehlstäubler (born 1975 in Passau) is a German physicist and professor of quantum optics and metrology. Mehlstäubler is known for her work on topological defects in ion Coulomb crystals^[1] and as a pioneer of the multi-ion clock.^[2]^[3]^[4] She has also developed scalable ion traps for quantum technological applications.

Early life and career

Mehlstäubler began studying physics at the University of Würzburg in 1994. From 1997 to 1999, she studied at Stony Brook University, where she graduated in 1999 with a master's degree in physics in the group of Gene D. Sprouse and Luis Orozco on the topic of precision spectroscopy and parity violation in Franzium atoms. In 2005, Mehlstäubler completed her doctorate under Wolfgang Ertmer at the Leibniz University Hannover on the topic of laser cooling methods for optical atomic frequency standards.

From 2006 to 2007, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Paris Observatory (LNE-SYRTE) in France in the group of Arnaud Landragin in the field of gravimetry with atomic quantum sensors. Mehlstäubler then moved to the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and set up a junior research group in 2009 with the aim of developing a multi-ion clock. She habilitated in 2016 on the topic of quantum sensors with laser-cooled atoms and ions and has been Professor of Quantum Optics and Metrology at Leibniz University Hannover since 2020.

Mehlstäubler has held a visiting professorship at Osaka University in Japan since 2018.

Memberships (selection)

Elected member of the review board of the German Research Foundation (since 2020)
Advisory Board of the IPHT Jena (since 2023)
Member of the board of the Cluster of Excellence QuantumFrontiers
Member of the Studienstiftung (from 1996 to 1999)

Weblinks

Literature by and about Tanja Mehlstäubler in the catalog of the German National Library
Contact page of Tanja Mehlstäubler on the website of the Institute of Quantum Metrology
Scientific profile of Tanja Mehlstäubler on the website of the Max Planck-RIKEN-PTB Center for Time, Constants and Fundamental Symmetries
Tanja Mehlstäubler in the database of renowned female scientists AcademiaNet
Entry at Google Scholar
Interview with Tanja Mehlstäubler on the topic “Atomic Clocks are Reinventing Time” on Bloomberg TV
Interview with Tanja Mehlstäubler on the Quantum Valley Lower Saxony

References

^ K. Pyka, J. Keller, H. L. Partner, R. Nigmatullin, T. Burgermeister, D. M. Meier, K. Kuhlmann, A Retzker, M. B. Plenio, W. H. Zurek, A. del Campo & T. E. Mehlstäubler (2023), "Topological defect formation and spontaneous symmetry breaking in ion Coulomb crystals", Nature Communications, vol. 4, p. 2291, doi:10.1038/ncomms3291{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ N. Herschbach, K. Pyka, J. Keller & T. E. Mehlstäubler (2012), "Linear Paul trap design for an optical clock with Coulomb crystals", Appl. Phys. B, vol. 107, pp. 891–906, doi:10.1007/s00340-011-4790-y{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Keller, J., Burgermeister, T., Kalincev, D., Didier, A., Kulosa, A. P., Nordmann, T., Kiethe, J., Mehlstäubler, T. E. (January 7, 2019), American Physical Society (ed.), "Controlling systematic frequency uncertainties at the 10⁻¹⁹ level in linear Coulomb crystals", Phys. Rev. A, vol. 99, no. 1, p. 13405, doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.99.013405{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ H. N. Hausser, J. Keller, T. Nordmann, N.M. Bhatt, J. Kiethe, H. Liu, I. M. Richter, M. von Boehn, J. Rahm, S. Weyers, E. Benkler, B. Lipphardt, S. Dörscher, K. Stahl, J. Klose, Ch. Lisdat, M. Filzinger, N. Huntemann, E. Peik, T. E. Mehlstäubler (January 16, 2025), American Physical Society (ed.), "¹¹⁵In⁺ − ¹⁷²Yb⁺ Coulomb Crystal Clock with 2.5×10^-18 Systematic Uncertainty", Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 134, p. 023201, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.023201{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[1] K. Pyka, J. Keller, H. L. Partner, R. Nigmatullin, T. Burgermeister, D. M. Meier, K. Kuhlmann, A Retzker, M. B. Plenio, W. H. Zurek, A. del Campo & T. E. Mehlstäubler (2023), "Topological defect formation and spontaneous symmetry breaking in ion Coulomb crystals", Nature Communications, vol. 4, p. 2291, doi:10.1038/ncomms3291{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[2] N. Herschbach, K. Pyka, J. Keller & T. E. Mehlstäubler (2012), "Linear Paul trap design for an optical clock with Coulomb crystals", Appl. Phys. B, vol. 107, pp. 891–906, doi:10.1007/s00340-011-4790-y{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[3] Keller, J., Burgermeister, T., Kalincev, D., Didier, A., Kulosa, A. P., Nordmann, T., Kiethe, J., Mehlstäubler, T. E. (January 7, 2019), American Physical Society (ed.), "Controlling systematic frequency uncertainties at the 10⁻¹⁹ level in linear Coulomb crystals", Phys. Rev. A, vol. 99, no. 1, p. 13405, doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.99.013405{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[4] H. N. Hausser, J. Keller, T. Nordmann, N.M. Bhatt, J. Kiethe, H. Liu, I. M. Richter, M. von Boehn, J. Rahm, S. Weyers, E. Benkler, B. Lipphardt, S. Dörscher, K. Stahl, J. Klose, Ch. Lisdat, M. Filzinger, N. Huntemann, E. Peik, T. E. Mehlstäubler (January 16, 2025), American Physical Society (ed.), "¹¹⁵In⁺ − ¹⁷²Yb⁺ Coulomb Crystal Clock with 2.5×10^-18 Systematic Uncertainty", Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 134, p. 023201, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.023201{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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