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Nicolai Lang

Dr. rer. nat.

Postdoc

Contact

Pfaffenwaldring 57
70550 Stuttgart
Germany
Room: 5.149 (blue elevator)

Subject

Physics
  • Tailored strongly interacting quantum matter
  • Monitored quantum circuits & entanglement transitions
  • (Topological) Quantum error correction & quantum computation
  • Topological states of matter
Miscellaneous
Quote of the day

“Many forms of typesetting have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that LaTeX is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that LaTeX is the worst form of typesetting except for all those other systems that have been tried from time to time ... “

Winston Churchill, 11 November 1947

  • Tobias F. Maier, Hans Peter Büchler, and Nicolai Lang
    Topological order in symmetric blockade structures
    arXiv:2503.17123 (2025)
  • Sebastian Weber, Rukmani Bai, Nastasia Makki, Johannes Mögerle, Thierry Lahaye, Antoine Browaeys, Maria Daghofer, Nicolai Lang, Hans Peter Büchler
    Experimentally accessible scheme for a fractional Chern insulator in Rydberg atoms
    (arXiv:2202.00699, DOI: 10.1103/PRXQuantum.3.030302)
    PRX Quantum 3, 030302 (2022)
  • Vincent Lienhard, Pascal Scholl, Sebastian Weber, Daniel Barredo, Sylvain de Léséleuc, Rukmani Bai, Nicolai Lang, Michael Fleischhauer, Hans Peter Büchler, Thierry Lahaye, Antoine Browaeys
    Realization of a density-dependent Peierls phase in a synthetic, spin-orbit coupled Rydberg system
    (arXiv:2001.10357, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.10.021031)
    Phys. Rev. X 10, 021031 (2020)
  • Sylvain de Léséleuc, Vincent Lienhard, Pascal Scholl, Daniel Barredo, Sebastian Weber, Nicolai Lang, Hans Peter Büchler, Thierry Lahaye, and Antoine Browaeys
    Observation of a symmetry-protected topological phase of interacting bosons with Rydberg atoms
    (arXiv:1810.13286, DOI: 10.1126/science.aav9105)
    Science 365, 775 (2019)
  • David Peter, Norman Y. Yao, Nicolai Lang, Sebastian D. Huber, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Hans Peter Büchler
    Topological flat bands with Chern number C = 2 by dipolar exchange interactions
    (arxiv:1410.5667, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.91.053617)
    Phys. Rev. A 91, 053617 (2015)
  • Adam Bühler, Nicolai Lang , Christina V. Kraus, Gunnar Möller, Sebastian D. Huber, Hans Peter Büchler
    Majorana modes and p-wave superfluids for fermionic atoms in optical lattices
    (arxiv:1403.0593, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5504)
    Nature Communications 5, 4504 (2014)

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  • 2007: Abitur @ Max-Born-Gymnasium Backnang
  • 2007-2008: Community service
  • 2008-2013: Fellow of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
  • 2008-2011: Bachelor of Science in Physics @ University of Stuttgart
  • 2011-2013: Master of Science in Physics @ University of Stuttgart
  • 2014: Arthur-Fischer Award (for master thesis)
  • 2013-2019: Doctor of natural sciences (Dr. rer. nat.) @ University of Stuttgart
  • 2020: Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Award (for dissertation)
  • 2019-2022: Postdoc @ University of Stuttgart
  • 2022-2025: Permanent research fellow @ University of Stuttgart
  • 2024: Teaching Award of the University of Stuttgart (for relativity lectures)

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