Advanced Lab Course (FOPRA)

The advanced lab course offers the opportunity to undertake complex physics experiments in our research institutes already during your Bachelor’s and Master’s studies.

This page describes the advanced lab courses in the B.Sc. Physics as well as in the Physics Master programs and in the M.Sc. Quantum Science & Technology. Information on the advanced lab course in the M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics can be found on the specific pages of the BEMP advanced lab course.

Students at a FOPRA experiment (No. 5: Doppler-Free Saturated Absorption Spectroscopy). Photo: C. Hamsen — Quantum Optics Lab at Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ). Photo: MCQST.

The experiments in the Advanced Lab Course are integrated into the experimental groups at the Physics Department and the participating Max-Planck institutes, where they are carried out. In addition LMU provides selected experiments exklusively for the students in M. Sc. Quantum Scinece & Technology. It is the ideal opportunity to learn a bit more about the research done in each place and to gain important information regarding the future specialization or the choice of the Bachelor's/Master's thesis.

Overall responsibility for the Advanced Lab Course is with Prof. Sharp and Prof. Schönert for the Physics programs and Prof. Brandt for the M. Sc. Quantum Science & Technology.

Safety Instruction

A safety instruction is obligatory for each participant before taking part at the advanced lab course and then at least once a year. The safety instruction including a test is done in an online Moodle course.

Registration for the Advanced Lab Course

Registration for the Advanced Lab Course is done via TUMonline. Exception is experiment 61 – you can find information on the registration at the experiment below.

Finding a Team

The experiments in the Advanced Lab Course are done in teams of regularly three students. If sufficient places are available, as an exception an experiment can be done by two students. The experiments at LMU, exclusively available for students in M. Sc. Quantum Science & Technology, are also done in teams of three.

Ideally you find your team at the beginning of the semester. It makes sense, when the team members have similar interests and hence are enroled in the same study program. To support you in finding a team you can use the FOPRA channel in the TUM Chat.

Select a name for your team (it is helpful to simply concatenate your three lastnames together). This team has to be entered at registration by every team member.

We recommend that you work as a team for the semester. But technically it is possible to register in different registration procedures/two-week periods with a different team.

Experiment Selection

Get together with your team before registering in TUMonline and select the experiments and time slots possible for all of you.

Keep in mind that not all experiments are offered in every time slot. You can find out in which timeslots an experiment is offered by selecting the course in TUMonline – the course detail page lists all the registration procedures and hence the timeslots the course is offered in.

Notes on experiment selection for specific programs:

Bachelor’s program Physics: Within the Bachelor's program course 6 CP have to be achieved from the FOPRA. To orientate oneself in all scientific directions, there are no restrictions concerning the attribution of the experiments to certain major fields of study KM, KTA, BIO or AEP. Experiments exclusive to the QST cannot be included in the Bachelor studies.; Due to the restrictions that apply in the Master’s programs it even makes sense to select experiments complementary to your own focus area.; Since the FOPRA takes place during the winter and the summer semester we recommend to perform 4 experiments during the winter and 2 experiments during the summer semester.
Masters’s program Physics (KM, KTA, BIO, AEP): Within one of the Master' programs 6 CP have to be achieved from the FOPRA. In doing so at least four CP must originate from the elected major field of study (KM, KTA, BIO, AEP).; We recommend to perform three experiments in the winter semester and three experiments in the summer semester. Experiments that are only assigned to QST as well as experiments already used in the TUM Bachelor can not be taken.
Masters’s program QST: Within the Master's program QST 6 CP have to be achieved from the FOPRA. In doing so at least two credits must be earned from each of the two focus areas (experimental/theory). The assignment to the respective focus area can be seen in the table with the experiments (Ex = experimental / TH = theory).; We recommend to do the FOPRA in your second semester (SS).
Masters’s program Science Education (MA/PH teacher): Within the Master's program in science education (mathematics / physics) 4 CP in FOPRA have to be achieved. There are no restrictions concerning the attribution of the experiments to certain major fields of study. Only the LMU experiments are exklusive only for QST students.

Registration in TUMonline

There is a registration period for each two-week period during the lecture period in TUMonline.

In each registration procedure with a time slot suitable for you give your preferences for all of the experiments you want to do. You will finally be assigned at most one place. If you give preferences for an experiment in more than one time slots you will at most be assigned one place in this experiment.

Each team member needs to register in TUMonline!

All team members give the same team namen (e. g. simply concatenating your three lastnames together)!
All team members in one registration procedure select the same experiments!

The electronics lab (experiments 90/91) consists of weekly dates that need to be attended during all of the semester. Registration for the Electronics Lab Course is done in a separate registration procedure.

Direct Links to the registration procedures:

W 20/21 (experiments still available: 2, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 30, 31, 35, 42, 43, 53, 56, 75, 77, 85, 86, 88, 89, 101, 102, 104, 109, 110, 111, 112)
W 16/17 (experiments still available: 5, 8, 9, 20, 22, 23, 27, 28, 30, 31, 33, 35, 37, 42, 53, 56, 75, 77, 85, 86, 88, 89, 108, 109, 110, 112)
W 14/15 (experiments still available: 8, 22, 23, 27, 28, 30, 33, 35, 37, 45, 56, 75, 77, 86, 89, 107, 109, 112, 113)
W 18/19 (experiments still available: 5, 8, 9, 13, 14, 18, 22, 23, 24, 28, 30, 31, 32, 35, 37, 39, 42, 53, 75, 77, 85, 86, 88, 89, 101, 102, 104, 108, 109, 110, 112)
W 22/23 (experiments still available: 2, 5, 8, 9, 12, 14, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 42, 45, 53, 56, 73, 75, 77, 85, 86, 88, 89, 101, 102, 104, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113)
W 24/25 (experiments still available: 2, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 20, 22, 23, 27, 28, 30, 31, 33, 35, 37, 41, 42, 45, 53, 56, 73, 75, 77, 85, 86, 89, 100, 101, 102, 104, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113)
W 26/27 (experiments still available: 2, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 30, 31, 33, 35, 37, 42, 45, 53, 56, 73, 75, 77, 85, 86, 88, 89, 101, 102, 104, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113)
W 28/29 (experiments still available: 2, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 30, 31, 35, 37, 45, 53, 56, 73, 75, 77, 85, 86, 88, 89, 101, 102, 104, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113)
W 30/31 (experiments still available: 2, 5, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 23, 24, 27, 28, 30, 33, 35, 37, 42, 45, 53, 56, 73, 75, 77, 85, 86, 88, 89, 100, 101, 102, 104, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113)
W 32/33 (experiments still available: 2, 5, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 23, 24, 27, 28, 30, 33, 35, 37, 42, 45, 53, 56, 73, 75, 77, 85, 86, 88, 89, 101, 102, 104, 107, 108, 109, 110, 112, 113)
W 34/35 (experiments still available: 2, 5, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 23, 24, 27, 28, 30, 35, 37, 42, 45, 53, 56, 73, 75, 77, 85, 86, 88, 89, 101, 102, 104, 107, 108, 109, 110, 112, 113)
W 36/37 (experiments still available: 2, 5, 8, 13, 14, 15, 20, 23, 24, 27, 28, 30, 33, 35, 37, 42, 45, 53, 56, 73, 75, 77, 85, 86, 88, 89, 101, 102, 104, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113)
W 38/39 (experiments still available: 2, 5, 8, 14, 15, 20, 23, 24, 27, 28, 30, 33, 35, 37, 42, 45, 53, 56, 73, 75, 77, 85, 86, 88, 89, 101, 102, 104, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113)

Assignment of Places

Assignment of places is done asynchroneously according to the default ranking – keep in mind that the registration date has no influence on your ranking until the next assignment date. Places are only assigned if at least two students with the same team name register for the same experiment and the same date. Teams of three are preferred to teams of two.

The first places for the winter term 2022/23 were assigned on the 21st of October 2022. Until the end of the term you still may add further preferences for experiments in future timeslots. Remaining places are assigned each Friday.

In TUMonline your status can reach three levels:

"requirements met" means, that you have applied for a place at this experiment in the given timeslot.
"distributed" means, that a place in the given timeslot would be available for you. This is the status that you get directly after the new FOPRA lottery on friday, if your team won a slot. If you stay in this status you most probably did not pass the test to the safety instruction in Moodle. In this case: please repeat the test until you get all 9 answers right. If you cannot register in the Moodle course, please write an E-Mail to studium@ph.tum.de .
"confirmed place" means that your team should now contact the experiment’s supervisors and obtain the individual dates for conducting the experiment.

If you are assigned a confirmed place you are automatically informed by TUMonline via E-Mail. As a team contact the experiment’s supervisors, if you were assigned a confirmed place, in order to obtain the individual dates for conducting the experiment.

On-Campus and Online Labs

Due to the restrictions of corona pandemic some of the lab experiments take place in pure online mode without presence of students. Besides this some other experiments there exists the possibility that only one part of the group participates in presence, the other group member(s) is (are) connected by videoconference. This has to be discussed individually with the corresponding experiment supervisor.

Doing the Experiment

For the realisation of the experimental part, one has to plan an entire day – which occasionally can only happen at the expenses of other courses. The complete realisation of a FOPRA experiment includes:

Preparation (insufficiently prepared participants may be rejected)
Experimental realization
Working out (written)
Colloquium (minimum 30 minutes long, final discussion and examination)

The Advanced Lab Course is defined as course work, which is a pass/fail scheme without numerical total grade. For some experiments numerical grades are issued. These are only for your self-assessment and are printed on grade reports only not on the final Transcript of Records.

Each successfully completed experiment will be entered by the corresponding supervisors in TUMonline as passed exam. Every participant is asked to check that her/his entry in TUMonline is done promptly after finishing the experiment. Check with the experiment’s supervisors if something is missing.

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Experiments in Summer Semester 2024

No.	Experiment	KTA	KM	BIO	AEP	QST-EX	QST-TH	CP
02	Measurement of the Radon Concentration in Room Air	✓			✓	╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Experimental Astro-Particle Physics Tutors Moritz Neuberger Links Manual (DE) Manual (EN) responsible teaching staff member Stefan Schönert
05	Doppler Free Saturated Absorption Spectroscopy		✓		✓	✓		1
Research group/Institute Lab Courses in Physics Tutors Gianvito Chiarella Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Gerhard Rempe
08	High Resolution X-Ray Diffraction		✓	✓	✓	╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Experimental Semiconductor Physics Tutors Maximilian Christis Julius Kühne Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Ian Sharp
09	Capacitive Properties of a Gold/Electrolyte Interface		✓	✓	✓	╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Chemical Physics Beyond Equilibrium Tutors Simon Leisibach Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Katharina Krischer
12	Introduction to Scanning Electron Microscopy	✓	✓		✓	╳	╳	1
This FOPRA is aimed to give students a basic introduction into scanning electron microscopy and a basic training experience in surface structure analysis. The students will become familiar with a modern scanning electron microscope (SEM) of the model “Axia ChemiSEM” from Thermo Fischer Scientific. The key principles of electron microscopy and its contrast to light microscopy will be discussed. The advantages and limits of the information gained by secondary electrons (SE), backscattered electrons (BSE), X-rays produced by the interaction of the electron beam with the sample material will be experienced in practice with samples chosen to highlight the different aspects of this method. Each student will practice navigating a typical SEM program, comparing the fit of electron beam energy for different applications, improving the quality and focus of the images, interpreting both the information from electron-signal derived images and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX). Research group/Institute Plasma Surface and Divertor Physics Tutors Abdulrahman Albarodi Gabriele Dörsch Laurin Hess Zeqing Shen Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Ulrich Stroth
13	Laser and Non-Linear Optics		✓	✓	✓	╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Laser and X-Ray Physics Tutors Johannes Pittrich Links Manual (DE) Manual (EN) responsible teaching staff member Hristo Iglev
14	Optical Absorption		✓		✓	╳	╳	1
Form online experiment Research group/Institute Semiconductor Nanostructures and Quantum Systems Tutors Sae Rom Lim Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Jonathan Finley
15	Quantum Information Using Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers In Diamond		✓		✓	✓		1
Form online Research group/Institute Experimental Semiconductor Physics Tutors Marius Straßner Lina Maria Todenhagen Links Manual (EN) responsible teaching staff member Martin Brandt
16	Josephson Effects in Superconductors		✓		✓	✓		1
You will perform a low temperature experiment at liquid helium temperature (4.2 K) to investigate a superconducting tunnel junction - a so-called Josephson junction - consisting of two Nb 100 nm thick electrodes separated by a thin aluminium oxide (AlOx) layer (about 17 nm thick). The junction area is a square with an edge length L of about 20 μm. Josephson junction feature a finite supercurrent (Josephson current) through the tunneling barrier at zero voltage drop between the two junction electrodes. You will measure the maximum Josephson current I_c by recording the IV-characteristics of the junction. The zero-voltage Josephson current across a Josephson junction is proportional to the sine of the phase difference varphi of the macroscopic wave functions describing the two superconducting junction electrodes: I_s = I_c sin(varphi). This phase difference is modified by a magnetic field applied parallel to the tunneling barrier. This results in a characteristic magnetic field dependence of the maximum Josephson current, corresponding to the diffraction pattern of a slit in optics. You will record this pattern and derive the Josephson penetration depth from the period of the pattern. From the experiment you will get basic insights into the phasics of Josephson junctions and in techniques used to perform low temperature experiments. Research group/Institute Technical Physics Tutors Kedar Honasoge Wun Kwan Yam Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Rudolf Gross
18	DNA Cleaving and Gene Repression using CRISPR/Cas			✓		╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Physics of Synthetic Biological Systems Tutors Henning Hellmer Lea Krautner Roman Martinez Piera Maria Theresa Ponetsmüller Sophie von Schönberg-Roth-Schönberg Links Manual (EN) responsible teaching staff member Friedrich Simmel
20	Cloning and Gene Expression			✓		╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Physics of Synthetic Biological Systems Tutors Henning Hellmer Lea Krautner Roman Martinez Piera Maria Theresa Ponetsmüller Sophie von Schönberg-Roth-Schönberg Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Friedrich Simmel
21	Lifetime Measurement	✓			✓	╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Dense and Strange Hadronic Matter Tutors Thomas Klemenz Links Abstract (DE) Abstract (EN) Manual (DE) Manual (EN) responsible teaching staff member Laura Fabbietti
22	Laser-Induced Current Transient Technique		✓		✓	╳	╳	1
Determination of the potential of maximum entropy (PME), related to the potential of zero charge (PZC), is of importance to understand the mechanism of various electrode processes. In this lab course, laser-induced current transient (LICT) technique is implemented to fulfil the determination of the PME. This technique utilizes the so-called temperature jump effect to heat the electrode surface, resulting a sudden temperature change then to identify the sign of the electrode surface charge.The PME, useful in the assessment of stiffness of the interfacial water layer, is a potential at which the entropy of the double layer formation reaches its maximum. In the vicinity of PME, species can move through electric double layer (EDL) more easily and reaction should proceed quite fast, whereas the solvent structure is more rigid at potentials more remote from PME. In this case, one can correlate the PME measurements with the activity towards catalytic reactions, e.g. the hydrogenevolution reaction (HER).In this lab course, you have the opportunity to learn how to perform this LICT technique and understand the activity towards the HER correlation with the PME results. Form Online-based Research group/Institute Physics of Energy Conversion and Storage Tutors Elena Gubanova Links Abstract (EN) Manual (EN) responsible teaching staff member Aliaksandr Bandarenka
23	Ferromagnetic Resonance (FMR)		✓		✓	✓		1
Research group/Institute Experimental Physics of Functional Spin Systems Tutors Sina Mehboodi Links Abstract (DE) Abstract (EN) Manual (DE) Manual (EN) responsible teaching staff member Christian Back
24	Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET)		✓		✓	✓		1
Research group/Institute Semiconductor Nanostructures and Quantum Systems Tutors Steffen Meder Stefan Strohauer Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Jonathan Finley
27	Neutrino Mass Analysis with KATRIN	✓			✓	╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Dark Matter Tutors Christoph Köhler Xaver Stribl Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Susanne Mertens
28	Semiconductor Photoelectrochemistry		✓		✓	╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Experimental Semiconductor Physics Tutors Gabriel Grötzner Matthias Kuhl Saswati Santra Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Ian Sharp
30	Electrocatalysis (Alkaline Water Electrolysis)		✓		✓	╳	╳	1
Form online Research group/Institute Physics of Energy Conversion and Storage Tutors Lewin Deville Haiting Yu Links Manual (EN) responsible teaching staff member Aliaksandr Bandarenka
31	Cooperative Behaviour in Networks of Mechanical Oscillators	✓	✓	✓	✓	╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Chemical Physics Beyond Equilibrium Tutors Nicolas Thomé Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Katharina Krischer
32	Tensor-Network Simulations of Bound States in Perturbed Quantum Ising Chains	╳	╳	╳	╳		✓	2
Research group/Institute Theoretical Solid-State Physics Tutors Markus Drescher Raul Morral Yepes Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Frank Pollmann
33	Kitaev's Honeycomb Lattice Model: An Exactly Soluble Quantum Spin Liquid	╳	╳	╳	╳		✓	2
Form workshop Research group/Institute Theory of Quantum Matter and Nanophysics Tutors Valentin Leeb Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Johannes Knolle
34	Simulating Quantum Many-Body Dynamics on a Current Digital Quantum Computer	╳	╳	╳	╳		✓	1–2
Research group/Institute Collective Quantum Dynamics Tutors Bernhard Jobst Wilhelm Kadow Yujie Liu Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Michael Knap
35	Electron Spectroscopy at Surfaces		✓	✓	✓	╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Physics of Surfaces and Interfaces Tutors Ignacio Piquero-Zulaica Mohammadreza Rostami Links Abstract (DE) Abstract (EN) Manual (EN) responsible teaching staff member Johannes Barth
37	Symmetries in Exfoliated 2D Quantum Materials		✓		✓	✓		1
Research group/Institute Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials Tutors Katharina Nisi Nina Pettinger Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Alexander Holleitner
38	Lieb-Robinson Bounds and Applications	╳	╳	╳	╳		✓	1
How fast can information propagate through a quantum many-body system with local interactions? Lieb-Robinson bounds provide fundamental upper limits on the speed at which the dynamics of such a system can distribute initially localized information. In particular, these bounds give a “speed limit” called the Lieb-Robinson velocity.Applications of Lieb-Robinson bounds are numerous; including multi-dimensional Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorems, exponential clustering in gapped ground states, area laws, the analysis of quantum phases of matter, the complexity of states and many, many more.In this project, you will learn how to formalize the question of information propagation in terms of basic quantum-mechanical concepts such as Heisenberg-evolved operators and operator norms of commutators. Following a list of instructions, you will then develop a mathematicalproof of this fundamental result.As applications you may consider consequences of Lieb-Robinson bounds to the problem of state preparation or to topological order.In the ﬁrst application you will show that certain highly entangled states such as the GHZ-state cannot be generated by a locally generated unitary in constant time from a product state.This result can also be reinterpreted a circuit depth lower bound on preparation circuits and thus immediately connects to complexity-theoretic questions in quantum computing.Another application concerns Kitaev’s toric code, a local stabilizer Hamiltonian on a 2D lattice of qubits whose ground states satisfy a condition called topological quantum order (TQO): no local observable can distinguish orthogonal ground states. While TQO is immediately connected to quantum error correction via the so-called Knill-Laﬂamme conditions, here you will study another key consequence of TQO derived from Lieb-Robinson bounds: preparing ground states of the toric code from a product state using locally generated unitary evolution requires a time scaling at least linearly in the (linear) system size.Overall, this project will help familiarize yourself with a fundamental tool in quantum many-body systems and basic results in topological order. Research group/Institute Lab Courses in Physics Tutors Robert König Severin Schraven Simone Warzel Michael Marc Wolf Links Manual
39	Universal Gate Sets for Quantum Computation	╳	╳	╳	╳		✓	1
In the standard (circuit) model of quantum computation, a typical computation proceeds by application of an n-qubit unitary U to a certain initial state and subsequent measurement of each qubit in the computational basis. The hardware of a universal quantum computer should therefore provide the capability of applying an arbitrary unitary U. In practice, however, control of quantum systems is severely limited by the speciﬁcs of the system under consideration and/or experimental limitations. For example, control pulses (realizing unitary evolutions) may only be applied along a certain subset of directions with a restricted range of frequencies and/or durations. Is such hardware su cient to reach the desired goal of performing universal quantum computation? If so, how many operations are required to realize a given unitary U?In this project, you will be given a (ﬁcticious) device that implements a single-qubit unitary speciﬁed by a discrete set of control parameter values. Your task is to use (several copies of) this device to (approximately) realize an arbitrary n-qubit unitary U. In other words, you will generate an instruction set (a quantum circuit) for executing the corresponding quantum computation using the given hardware.A key notion of interest here is that of a universal gate set, a ﬁnite family of (typically single- and two-qubit) unitaries (called gates) such that any unitary U can be approximately written as a product of a certain number L of gates. Given such a universal gate set, we may ask about the relationship between the length L of the gate sequence (ultimately corresponding to the runtime of your computation) and the quality of approximation. In addition, we want to efficiently (by classical computation) ﬁnd a suitable sequence. The so-called Solovay-Kitaev theorem provides answersto this problem and is the main topic of this project. The project will involve a collection of mathematical exercises. You will also gain experience programming in python by developing and implementing a compilation procedure as described above. Research group/Institute Lab Courses in Physics Tutors Lukas Brenner Libor Caha Beatriz Cardoso Dias Robert König Simone Warzel Michael Marc Wolf Links Manual
41	Entanglement-Breaking Evolutions	╳	╳	╳	╳		✓	1
Entanglement is a fundamental resource in quantum information that features in many well-known protocols (e.g., teleportation). Therefore, it is of interest to understand which evolutions of quantum systems preserve or destroy this resource. In this project, you will investigate so-called entanglement-breaking maps, i.e., maps that for any input state produce a separable output. You will focus on physical situations where the interactions between an open system under consideration and its environment are weak so that the dynamics can be well described by a Markovian evolution. In mathematical terms, this means that you will study (continuous) semigroups of quantum channels.In this project, you will ﬁrst learn about basic properties of the objects of interest (i.e., entanglement-breaking channels and semigroups of channels) by solving a collection of mathematical exercises. Once you are familiar with these notions and after some technical preparation, you will be guided through the proof of the following equivalence, which is the main goal of the project: An evolution described by a semigroup of quantum channels becomes entanglement-breaking after some ﬁnite time if and only if every initial state converges to a unique full-rank invariant state.Your task will be to provide the details for the steps of the proof based on the instructions given. In doing so, you will encounter techniques from di↵erent areas relevant to quantum information, e.g., linear algebra and spectral theory. In particular, you will have an opportunity to apply what you have learned in the lecture on “Introduction to Quantum Information Processing”. This will give you a better understanding of the structure of the set of separable states, of the behaviour of Markovian quantum evolutions, and it will bring you closer to the current research about these questions. Research group/Institute Lab Courses in Physics Tutors Zahra Baghali Khanian Shin Ho Choe Pablo Costa Rico Robert König Simone Warzel Michael Marc Wolf Links Manual
42	Atomic Force Microscopy		✓		✓	╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Functional Materials Tutors Julian Heger Links Manual (EN) responsible teaching staff member Peter Müller-Buschbaum
43	Semideﬁnite Programming in Quantum Information Theory	╳	╳	╳	╳		✓	1
The need to optimize arises frequently in everyday live. What is the fastest route from A to B? What is the cheapest hotel in Munich that provides breakfast and is at most 5 kilometers away from Marienplatz? When engineering quantum devices, the broad question that arises over and over again is how to best perform a certain information processing task given the experimental constraints at hand. Convex optimization techniques (and especially semideﬁnite programs (SDPs)) have proven to be a vital tool to compute the answer to these questions e ciently. In this project, you will be introduced to SDPs by putting on the hat of a quantum engineer who tries to design devices that peform the following three tasks.1. Suppose your friend challenges you with the following game: He will prepare a quantum system described by one of the (mixed) states rho1, rho2, . . . , rhoN. You have to guess which state it is. If you guess correctly, he will pay for the next barbeque and otherwise you have to pay. What is the best way to measure the system to maximize your chances of guessing right?2. You have another friend who studies abroad. When she left, she gave you a part of her most beautiful quantum system (which we know to be in state rhoAB) to stay connected. The next time you talk to her, she tells you that studying abroad has changed her mind about the beauty of quantum states completely and that she now likes the pure state the most. Unfortunately, she did not bring any quantum equipment with her so she asks you to perform a quantum operation on your part of the system such that the overall state is as close as possible to her beloved state phi. How would you choose that quantum operation to make her as happy as possible?3. A few childhood friends of yours like to play with Boolean functions. As an introduction to their game they want you to guess which function they are currently playing with. You choose an input, and ask them for some information on the output. For each piece of information they give you, you have to pay some amount of money, and since you do not want to end up being poor, you need to guess the function as soon as possible. How could you do that?In this project, you will learn how to formulate these problems mathematically as an SDP and how to solve such an SDP with Matlab using the cvx package. Research group/Institute Lab Courses in Physics Tutors Robert König Haojian Li Hjalmar Rall Farzin Salek Shishavan Simone Warzel Michael Marc Wolf Links Manual
44	Bell's Inequality and Quantum Tomography	╳	╳	╳	╳	✓		2
Quantum mechanical systems exhibit fundamentally diﬀerent properties compared to classical systems. While the state of a classical particle can at any time be described by a set of well deﬁned classical variables, quantum particles can be in superposition of diﬀerent sates. If two or more particles are in a superposition such that the full state of the system can only be described by a joint superposition, then these particles are called entangled. The question whether the behaviour of entangled systems is determined by classical (local, realistic) variables was posed in a well-known paper in 1935 by Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen (collectively “EPR”). Later, Bell formulated an inequality which allows to experimentally test whether the behaviour of entangled particles can be explained using such classical variables.Besides these fundamental physics questions, entanglement is the key element for applications of quantum physics such as quantum cryptography, teleportation or quantum computation. Furthermore, its characteristics can be used for a fundamental test of non-classical properties of quantum theory. Quantum tomography is an essential tool for many of these applications. In this lab course we will perform quantum state tomography on polarization-entangled photon pairs and violate Bell’s inequality. Research group/Institute Academic Programs Joint Study Programs TUM/LMU M.Sc. QST/TMP (from the Course Catalog of LMU Munich) Tutors Harald Weinfurter Links Manual
45	Optical Properties of Semiconductor Quantum-Wells		✓		✓	✓		1
Research group/Institute Semiconductor Nanostructures and Quantum Systems Tutors Michelle Lienhart Manuel Rieger Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Jonathan Finley
50	Photovoltaics		✓		✓	╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Experimental Semiconductor Physics Tutors Saswati Santra Simon Wörle Links Abstract (DE) Abstract (EN) Manual (DE) responsible teaching staff member Ian Sharp
53	Characterization of Polymers with Differential Scanning Calorimetry		✓		✓	╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Soft Matter Physics Tutors Peiran Zhang Links Abstract (EN) Manual (EN) responsible teaching staff member Christine Papadakis
56	Cosmic Messengers: Catch Cosmic Rays with Silicon Photomultipliers	✓	✓		✓	╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Experimental Astro-Particle Physics Tutors Christoph Vogl Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Stefan Schönert
60	Positron-Lifetime Measurements in Solids	✓	✓		✓	╳	╳	1
Research group "Positron Physics":http://www.sces.ph.tum.de/research/positron-physics/ Form Preparatory discussion (approx. 1 h) - onlineExperiment (4-8 h) Research group/Institute Neutron Scattering Tutors Leon Chryssos Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Christoph Pascal Hugenschmidt
61	Neutron Scattering at FRM II	✓	✓	✓	✓	╳	╳	2
The experiment will take place for all groups at the end of the semester, from July 08 to July 12 2024.Time commitment for each group: introduction (half day) on the Monday of the week of the experiment and then two consecutive days for the experiments.Important: For organizational reasons, registration for this experiment will not take place via the FoPra page, but from start of the lecture period to end of May via the page https://indico.frm2.tum.de/event/487/ . Research group/Institute Functional Materials Tutors Robert Heinrich Georgii Links Abstract (DE) Manual (EN) responsible teaching staff member Christian Pfleiderer
63	Gamma Spectroscopy	✓				╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Dense and Strange Hadronic Matter Tutors Daniel Battistini Links Manual (DE) responsible teaching staff member Laura Fabbietti
73	DNA Origami			✓		╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Biomolecular Nano-Technology Tutors Samuel Beerkens Brent Fielden Johanna Grießing Dominik Putz Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Hendrik Dietz
75	Particle Physics with the Computer	✓				╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Dense and Strange Hadronic Matter Tutors Laura Serksnyte Links Manual (EN) responsible teaching staff member Laura Fabbietti
77	Detector Physics (Simulation versus Experiment)	✓			✓	╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Dense and Strange Hadronic Matter Tutors Tobias Jenegger Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Laura Fabbietti
83	Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy & Molecular Imaging		✓	✓	✓	╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Physics of Surfaces and Interfaces Tutors Dennis Meier Anthoula Chrysa Papageorgiou Links Abstract (EN) Manual (EN) responsible teaching staff member Johannes Barth
85	Colour-Magnitude Diagrams of Star Clusters: Determining Their Relative Ages	✓				╳	╳	1
This advanced lab course introduces you to observational astronomy. It involves observing star clusters with a telescope (weather permitting), analyzing the data, and deriving properties of the star clusters including their relative ages.There are two types of star cluster in the Galaxy. Open clusters are loose collections of typically a few hundred stars in the galactic disk. These clusters tend to be young with ages of several million to a billion years. Typical cluster masses range between100 - 1000 solar masses and their diameters are 1 - 10 parsec (where 1 parsec is ~3.3 light years). In our Galaxy more than 1100 open clusters are known. The estimated total number of Galactic open clusters is ∼ 2 x 10^4.Globular clusters, on the other hand, are tightly bound collections of a few hundred thousand to a few million stars, typically located in the Galactic halo. These clusters are generally old with ages of a few billion years. The diameter of a typical globular cluster is about 40 parsec. In this project, you will construct colour-magnitude diagrams of two open clusters. Using these colour-magnitude diagrams you will investigate the differences in morphology in these clusters and explain them in terms of their relative ages. Research group/Institute Nuclear Astrophysics Tutors Irham Taufik Andika Gabriel Bartosch Caminha Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Sherry Suyu
86	Measurement of the Fermi Energy by the Angular Correlation of Gamma-Radiation from Annihilation of Electron-Positron Pairs	✓	✓		✓	╳	╳	1
Research group "Positron Physics":http://www.sces.ph.tum.de/research/positron-physics/ Research group/Institute Neutron Scattering Tutors Lucian Mathes Links Abstract (DE) Abstract (EN) Manual (DE) responsible teaching staff member Christoph Pascal Hugenschmidt
88	Wave Phenomena in a Double Plasma Experiment	✓			✓	╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Plasma Surface and Divertor Physics Tutors Gabriele Dörsch Manuel Herschel Joey Kalis Benedikt Zimmermann Links Abstract (EN) Manual (EN) responsible teaching staff member Ulrich Stroth
89	Basic Techniques of Surface Physics		✓		✓	╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Physics of Surfaces and Interfaces Tutors Nan Cao Hongxiang Xu Shengming Zhang Pengfei Zhao Links Abstract (EN) Manual (EN) responsible teaching staff member Johannes Barth
91	Electronics Lab Course (Digital Circuits)	✓	✓	✓	✓	╳	╳	2
The electronics lab course consists of an analog electronics part (winter semester) and an digital electronics part (summer semester), each extending over a whole semester with a weekly fixed date.Both the analog and the digital electronics part gives 2 credits so that each of the part can replace two (normal) advanced lab course experiments. However during the bachelor lab course only the analog electronics part can replace other experiments, during the master lab course either the analog electronics part or the digital electronics part can replace experiments. Research group/Institute Neutron Scattering Tutors Christian Pfleiderer
100	Construction and Operation of a Microfluidic Device			✓		╳	╳	1
Microﬂuidics refers to the science and engineering of systems in which ﬂuid behavior diﬀers from conventional ﬂow theory primarily due to the small length scale of the system. Thus, the key feature of microﬂuidic devices is the use and the manipulation of small ﬂuid amounts (10 nano to 10 atto liter) in channel structures with dimensions of tens to hundreds of micrometers. First successes in this ﬁeld were the development of a gas chromatograph based on a silicon chip and the development of an inkjet printer.In this lab course you will produce and operate a microﬂuidic device. This device will be used to conduct a diﬀusion experiment, from which the diﬀusion constant of FITC in agarose can be calculated. Research group/Institute Physics of Synthetic Biological Systems Tutors Anna Christina Jäkel Christoph Karfusehr Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Friedrich Simmel
101	Lithium-Ion Battery		✓		✓	╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Physics of Energy Conversion and Storage Tutors Johannes Sterzinger Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Aliaksandr Bandarenka
102	Femtoscopy – analyzing LHC data	✓				╳	╳	1
This FOPRA is related to a modern technique used to study the strong force between hadrons. It is called femtoscopy. It relies on measuring pairwise correlations among the particles produced during high-energy collisions at accelerators, such as the LHC. This course provides the students with the opportunity to analyze data, measured and published by the ALICE experiment, of proton-Lambda correlations, and apply some basic techniques to extract the corresponding total cross section. Form A focus on the initial discussion to understand the underlying physics, followed by an analysis on a dedicated computer. The analysis is template is very simplified and allows the participants to concentrate on the physics. Research group/Institute Dense and Strange Hadronic Matter Tutors Dimitar Mihaylov Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Laura Fabbietti
104	The Josephson Parametric Amplifier (JPA)	╳	╳	╳	╳	✓		1
In superconducting quantum circuits, such as quantum bits, information is processed and transferred in the form of microwave quantum signals. Moreover, at the end of quantum information protocols, these signals have to be recorded by room temperature electronic devices. Since microwave quantum signals typically consist of very few photons, they must be ampliﬁed in order to achieve reasonable signal-to-noise ratios. Therefore, low-noise ampliﬁcation of quantum signals is crucial. Modern low-noise microwave ampliﬁers are built upon superconducting Josephson parametric devices, such as a ﬂux-driven Josephson Parametric Ampliﬁer (JPA), which allows to reach the standard quantum limit of ampliﬁcation and even go beyond it. The current JPA is formed by a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) combined with a superconducting coplanar waveguide resonator. The combined system acts as a tunable nonlinear microwave resonator, whose frequency can be varied in-situ via an external magnetic ﬁeld. A mechanical analogue would be a pendulum of variable length, allowing one to tune its eigenfrequency. Tunability of the nonlinear microwave resonator can be exploited to parametrically pump the JPA via application of a strong microwave signal at twice the resonant frequency. This, in turn, can result in a strong parametric ampliﬁcation of weak quantum signals incident at the JPA. The same parametric ampliﬁcation mechanism can be exploited further for generation of genuine quantum signals in the form of squeezed vacuum states. Research group/Institute Technical Physics Tutors Kedar Honasoge Wun Kwan Yam Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Rudolf Gross
107	Non-Classical Physics with Entangled Photons		✓		✓	✓		1
Research group/Institute Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials Tutors Christoph Kastl Mirco Troue Johannes Vasco Winter Amaral Figueiredo Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Alexander Holleitner
108	Qubit Control and Characterization for Superconducting Quantum Processors		✓		✓	✓		1
Research group/Institute Technical Physics Tutors Leon Koch Ivan Tsitsilin Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Stefan Filipp
109	Understanding and Characterization of a Silicon Drift Detector for Applications in Astroparticle Physics	✓				╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Dark Matter Tutors Frank Edzards Christian Forstner Daniela Spreng Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Susanne Mertens
110	Super-Resolution Imaging of DNA Nanostructure			✓		╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Physics of Synthetic Biological Systems Tutors Rui Yee Loke Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Friedrich Simmel
111	Plasma Spectroscopy	✓			✓	╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Plasma Surface and Divertor Physics Tutors Sebastian Hörmann Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Ulrich Stroth
112	Computational Tight-Binding Modeling of Energy Materials		✓		✓	╳	╳	1
Research group/Institute Theory of Functional Energy Materials Tutors Martin Schwade Links Manual responsible teaching staff member David Egger
113	Trapping light on a silicon chip (AEP, KM, QST-EX)		✓		✓	✓		1
Research group/Institute Quantum Networks Tutors Daniele Lopriore Jonas Schmitt Links Manual responsible teaching staff member Andreas Reiserer

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