Florian Mintert

Biography

Florian Mintert studied physics in Aachen and Hamburg, where he got his diploma in 2000 with a thesis on radio-frequency control of trapped ions. During his PhD project in Dresden he worked on entanglement dynamics in dissipative quantum systems. In his postdoctoral research in Rio de Janeiro and Cambridge (MA) he devised a new approach for the experimental quantification of entanglement and investigated decoherence effects in many-body quantum systems. During his PostDoc in Freiburg he began his work on the role of many-body quantum coherence in transport through disordered molecular networks. In January 2011, Florian Mintert has been awarded to ERC Starting Grant for his project 'Optimal dynamic control of quantum entanglement'.

Research Interest

Our aim is to coherent many-body dynamics in dissipative, disordered quantum system from the perspective of optimal control theory. For this purpose, we construct configurations of quantum many-body systems that behave optimally with respect to various figures of merits, such as robustness of coherence or transport efficiency. From the comparison of the results of the study of the results of the study