EPS Quantum Electronics Prize (2011) Immanuel Bloch (born 16 November 1972, Fulda) is a German experimental physicist.
[7] Since 2012 he has been vice-dean at the department of physics of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich[8] and managing director of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics since 2012.
Bloch's work focuses on the investigation of quantum many-body system using ultracold atoms[9] stored in optical lattice potentials.
His other works includes the observation of a Tonks–Girardeau gas[11] of strongly interacting bosons in one dimensions, the detection of collapses and revivals[12] of the wavefunction of a Bose–Einstein condensate because of interactions, and the use of quantum noise correlations to observe Hanbury-Brown and Twiss bunching[13] and antibunching[14] for bosonic and fermionic atoms (simultaneously with the group of Alain Aspect).
More recently, his research team was able to realize single-atom resolved imaging[15] and addressing[16] of ultracold atoms held in an optical lattice.