Basel Universität
Departement für Physik und Astronomie
Departement für Physik und Astronomie

Prof. Dr. Christoph Bruder

Professor of Theoretical Physics (Ordinarius)
Department of Physics
University of Basel
Klingelbergstrasse 82
4056 Basel
Switzerland

office 4.02
tel.: +41 (0)61 267 3692 (office)
e-mail:
research group: http://QuantumTheory.unibas.ch


administrative assistant
Francois Erkadoo
tel.: +41 (0)61 267 3750
fax: +41 (0)61 267 1349
e-mail:




Short Biography

Christoph Bruder studied physics at TU München and the University of Sussex. After receiving his diploma in München in 1985 (diploma thesis on superfluid 3He with D. Vollhardt and P. Wölfle), he joined T.M. Rice's group at ETH Zürich as a graduate student. He finished his PhD thesis on Andreev scattering in unconventional superconductors in 1989. After that, he spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia working with T.C. Lubensky, G. Mele, and A. Brooks Harris. In 1991 he joined Gerd Schön's group at University of Karlsruhe, where he obtained his Habilitation (on mesoscopic superconductivity) in 1995. In 1998 he became associate professor at University of Basel, and in 2004 he was promoted to full professor. In 1997, he received the Klaus Tschira Award for Achievements in Public Understanding of Science; in 2001 the 200 k$ Swiss-Korean Outstanding Research Efforts Award (together with Prof. Mahn-Soo Choi, Korea University), and in 2009 the Outstanding Referee Award of the American Physical Society.



Research Summary

  1. Quantum coherence, quantum computing, and single-electron effects in mesoscopic systems
  2. Mesoscopic superconductivity
  3. Ultracold atoms, optical lattices, Bose-Einstein condensation
  4. Unconventional superconductors
  5. Biologically motivated physics questions



Selected Publications

  1. C.B. Doiron, B. Trauzettel, and C. Bruder, Measuring the momentum of a nanomechanical oscillator through the use of two tunnel junctions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 027202 (2008).
  2. A. Cottet, W. Belzig, and C. Bruder, Positive cross-correlations in a three-terminal quantum dot with ferromagnetic contacts, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 206801 (2004).
  3. Mahn-Soo Choi, C. Bruder, and D. Loss, Spin-Dependent Josephson Current through Double Quantum Dots and Measurement of Entangled Electron States, Phys. Rev. B 62, 13569 (2000).
  4. D. Jaksch, C. Bruder, J.I. Cirac, C.W. Gardiner, and P. Zoller, Cold Bosonic Atoms in Optical Lattices, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3108 (1998).
  5. C. Bruder, Andreev Scattering in Anisotropic Superconductors, Phys. Rev. B 41, 4017 (1990).