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Employment (5)

Leibniz Universität Hannover: Hannover, Niedersachsen, DE

2020-10-01 to present (Institute of Quantum Optics)
Employment
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Leon Karpa

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg: Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, DE

2013 to 2020-09-30 (Physics Department)
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Leon Karpa

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies: Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, DE

2014 to 2016
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Leon Karpa

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Cambridge, MA, US

2010 to 2013 | Postdoctoral fellow (Depratment of Physics)
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Leon Karpa

Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universität Bonn: Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DE

2006 to 2010
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Leon Karpa

Education and qualifications (3)

University of Freiburg: Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, DE

2021-07-13 | Dr. habil. / Privatdozent (Institute of Physics)
Education
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Leon Karpa

Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universität Bonn: Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DE

2010 | Dr. rer. nat.
Education
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Leon Karpa

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen: Tubingen, Baden-Württemberg, DE

2006 | Dipl. Phys.
Education
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Leon Karpa

Professional activities (5)

Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft: Bad Honnef, DE

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Leon Karpa

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: Bonn, DE

2023 | Heisenberg Grant (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany)
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Leon Karpa

FP7 People: Marie-Curie Actions: Brussels, BE

2014 (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany)
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Leon Karpa

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Bonn, DE

2013 | Feodor Lynen Return Fellowship (Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany)
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Leon Karpa

Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung: Bonn, DE

2011 | Feodor Lynen Fellowship (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA)
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Leon Karpa

Funding (5)

Beobachtung und Kontrolle von ultrakalten Ion-Molekül-Wechselwirkungen

2023-11 to 2028-10 | Grant
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Bonn, DE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 506287139
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Leon Karpa

Optical Engineering of Molecular Interactions

2022-01-01 to present | Grant
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Bonn, DE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 505794012
Source: Self-asserted source
Leon Karpa via DimensionsWizard

Ion-Photon Interfaces

Salary award
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (Bonn, DE)
Source: Self-asserted source
Leon Karpa

Quantum transport phenomena

Salary award
FP7 People: Marie-Curie Actions (Brussels, BE)
Source: Self-asserted source
Leon Karpa

Slow and stored light as a probe for metrological and quantum chemistry applications

Grant
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Freiburg, DE)
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Leon Karpa

Works (24)

Trapping Ion Coulomb Crystals in an Optical Lattice

Physical Review Letters
2024-03-29 | Journal article
Contributors: Daniel Hoenig; Fabian Thielemann; Leon Karpa; Thomas Walker; Amir Mohammadi; Tobias Schaetz
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Modeling Photoassociative Spectra of Ultracold NaK + K

The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
2023-09-28 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1089-5639
Part of ISSN: 1520-5215
EID:

2-s2.0-85151277445

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Baraa Shammout; Leon Karpa; Silke Ospelkaus; Eberhard Tiemann; Olivier Dulieu; Leon Karpa
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Leon Karpa
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Two-photon optical shielding of collisions between ultracold polar molecules

arXiv
2022 | Other
EID:

2-s2.0-85143064088

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Karam, C.; Borgloh, M.M.Z.A.; Vexiau, R.; Lepers, M.; Ospelkaus, S.; Bouloufa-Maafa, N.; Karpa, L.; Dulieu, O.
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Leon Karpa via Scopus - Elsevier
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Focus on the cold and ultracold chemistry of atoms, ions and molecules

New Journal of Physics
2022-12-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Katrin Dulitz; Leon Karpa
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Crossref
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Observation of Feshbach resonances between a single ion and ultracold atoms

Nature
2021-12-15 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85107967652

Part of ISSN: 23318422
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Leon Karpa
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Interactions of Ions and Ultracold Neutral Atom Ensembles in Composite Optical Dipole Traps: Developments and Perspectives

Atoms
2021-07-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Leon Karpa
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Crossref
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Trapping, shaping, and isolating of an ion Coulomb crystal via state-selective optical potentials

Physical Review A
2021-01-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Pascal Weckesser; Fabian Thielemann; Daniel Hoenig; Alexander Lambrecht; Leon Karpa; Tobias Schaetz
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Mass-selective removal of ions from Paul traps using parametric excitation

Applied Physics B
2020-11 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85095551633

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Part of ISSN: 0946-2171
Part of ISSN: 1432-0649
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Leon Karpa
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In-situ ac Stark shift Detection in Light Storage Spectroscopy

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Leon Karpa
grade
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Trapping Single Ions and Coulomb Crystals with Light Fields

SpringerBriefs in Physics
2019 | Book
EID:

2-s2.0-85095228228

Part of ISSN: 2191-5423
Part of ISSN: 2191-5431
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Leon Karpa
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Optical Traps for sympathetic Cooling of Ions with ultracold neutral Atoms

Physical Review Letters
2019-09-18 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85094332534

Part of ISSN: 23318422
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Leon Karpa
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Optical Trapping of Ion Coulomb Crystals

Physical Review X
2018 | Journal article
Contributors: Tobias Schaetz; Alexander Lambrecht; Julian Schmidt; Markus Debatin; Pascal Weckesser; Leon Karpa
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Long lifetimes and effective isolation of ions in optical and electrostatic traps

Nature Photonics
2017-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Alexander Lambrecht; Julian Schmidt; Pascal Weckesser; Markus Debatin; Leon Karpa; Tobias Schaetz
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Preventing and reversing vacuum-induced optical losses in high-finesse tantalum (V) oxide mirror coatings

Optics Express
2015-07-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Dorian Gangloff; Molu Shi; Tailin Wu; Alexei Bylinskii; Boris Braverman; Michael Gutierrez; Rosanna Nichols; Junru Li; Kai Aichholz; Marko Cetina et al.
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Leon Karpa via Crossref Metadata Search
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A far-off-resonance optical trap for a Ba+ ion

Nature Communications
2014-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Huber; Alexander Lambrecht; Julian Schmidt; Leon Karpa; Tobias Schaetz
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Leon Karpa via Crossref Metadata Search
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Suppression of Ion Transport due to Long-Lived Subwavelength Localization by an Optical Lattice

Physical Review Letters
2013-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Leon Karpa; Alexei Bylinskii; Dorian Gangloff; Marko Cetina; Vladan Vuletić
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Leon Karpa via Crossref Metadata Search
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One-dimensional array of ion chains coupled to an optical cavity

New Journal of Physics
2013-05-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Marko Cetina; Alexei Bylinskii; Leon Karpa; Dorian Gangloff; Kristin M Beck; Yufei Ge; Matthias Scholz; Andrew T Grier; Isaac Chuang; Vladan Vuletić
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Leon Karpa via Crossref Metadata Search
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Nondispersive optics using storage of light

Physical Review A
2010-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Leon Karpa; Martin Weitz
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Leon Karpa via Crossref Metadata Search
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Frequency Matching in Light-Storage Spectroscopy of Atomic Raman Transitions

Physical Review Letters
2009-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Leon Karpa; Gor Nikoghosyan; Frank Vewinger; Michael Fleischhauer; Martin Weitz
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Leon Karpa via Crossref Metadata Search
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Resonance Beating of Light Stored Using Atomic Spinor Polaritons

Physical Review Letters
2008-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Leon Karpa; Frank Vewinger; Martin Weitz
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Leon Karpa via Crossref Metadata Search
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Slow light in inhomogeneous and transverse fields

New Journal of Physics
2008-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Leon Karpa; Martin Weitz
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Leon Karpa via Crossref Metadata Search
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Deflection of slow light in a Stern-Gerlach magnetic field

Optics InfoBase Conference Papers
2007 | Conference paper
EID:

2-s2.0-84898977709

Part of ISSN: 21622701
Contributors: Karpa, L.; Weitz, M.
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Leon Karpa via Scopus - Elsevier

Deflection of slow light in a Stern-Gerlach magnetic field

2007 European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the International Quantum Electronics Conference
2007-06 | Conference paper
Contributors: Leon Karpa; Martin Weitz
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Leon Karpa via Crossref Metadata Search
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A Stern–Gerlach experiment for slow light

Nature Physics
2006-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Leon Karpa; Martin Weitz
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Leon Karpa via Crossref Metadata Search
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Peer review (6 reviews for 3 publications/grants)

Review activity for Chinese Optics Letters. (1)
Review activity for Journal of the Optical Society of America. (1)
Review activity for New journal of physics. (4)