MEMBERS

Assistant professor

　Christian Sommer

Department of Photo-Molecular Science,
Institute for Molecular Science (IMS),
National Institutes of Natural Sciences

38 Nishigo-Naka, Myodaiji,
Okazaki 444-8585, Japan
TEL +81-564-55-7368
FAX +81-564-54-2254
sommer[AT]ims.ac.jp

2014.2-	Assistant professor at Institute for Molecular Science
2012-	Postdoc at JST-CREST
2011	Postdoc at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Quantum dynamics group (website)
2006-2011	PhD student at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Quantum dynamics group (website)
2000-2006	Diploma in Physics, University of Hamburg

"Sisyphus cooling of electrically trapped polyatomic molecules"
M. Zeppenfeld, B.G.U. Englert, R. Glöckner, A. Prehn, M. Mielenz, C. Sommer, L.D. van Buuren, M. Motsch, and G. Rempe,
Nature 491, 570 (2012).
"Storage and Adiabatic Cooling of Polar Molecules in a Microstructured Trap"
B.G.U. Englert, M. Mielenz, C. Sommer, J. Bayerl, M. Motsch, P.W.H. Pinkse, G. Rempe, and M. Zeppenfeld
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 263003 (2011).
"Velocity-selected molecular pulses produced by an electric guide"
C. Sommer, M. Motsch, S. Chervenkov, L.D. van Buuren, M. Zeppenfeld, P.W.H. Pinkse,
and G. Rempe
Phys. Rev. A, 82, 013410 (2010).
"Continuous guided beams of slow and internally cold polar molecules"
C. Sommer, L.D. van Buuren, M. Motsch, S. Pohle, J. Bayerl, P.W.H. Pinkse, and G. Rempe
Faraday Discuss. 142, 203 (2009).
"Collisional effects in the formation of cold guided beams of polar molecules"
M. Motsch, C. Sommer, M. Zeppenfeld, L.D. van Buuren, P.W.H. Pinkse, and G. Rempe
New Journal of Physics 11, 055030 (2009).
"Cold guided beams of water isotopologs"
M. Motsch, L.D. van Buuren, C. Sommer, M. Zeppenfeld, G. Rempe, and P.W.H. Pinkse
Phys. Rev. A, 79, 013405 (2009).
"Electrostatic Extraction of Cold Molecules from a Cryogenic Reservoir"
L.D. van Buuren, C. Sommer, M. Motsch, S. Pohle, M. Schenk, J. Bayerl, P.W.H. Pinkse, and G. Rempe
Phys. Rev. Lett., 102, 033001 (2009).