Research Areas

• mesoscopic physics of electronic and photonic systems
• complex dynamics in mesoskopic systems, especially in 2D and 3D optical microcavities
• mesoscopic optics and quantum chaos in open systems
• geometric phases
• coupled and driven complex mesoscopic systems, in particular arrays of optical microcavities
• graphene billiards
• novel applications based on fundamental mesoscopic (interference) effects

Methods

• ray-wave correspondence in real and phase space
• generalized Husimi functions
• ray picture with semiclassical corrections
• numerical simulation of Maxwell's equations in complex systems (meep, COMSOL)
• analytical methods from semiclassics and optics

Scientific Collaborations

• Prof. Dr. Stefan Sinzinger, TU Ilmenau
• Prof. Dr. Klaus Richter, Universität Regensburg
• Prof. Dr. Jung-Wan Ryu, Institute for Basic Science, Daejon, Korea
• Prof. Dr. Henning Schomerus, Lancaster University, UK
• Prof. Dr. Jan Wiersig, Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg
• Prof. Dr. Lan Yang, Washington University, St. Louis, USA
• Prof. Dr. Sibylle Gemming, TU Chemnitz
• Prof. Dr. Angela Thränhardt, TU Chemnitz
• Prof. Dr. Ulrich T. Schwarz, TU Chemnitz
• Prof. Dr. Christop Tegenkamp, TU Chemnitz