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fields We are an interdisciplinary group of theoretical physicists and chemists located at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw. We are a part of the Department of Modeling Complex Systems at the Institute of Theoretical Physics. We are also a part of Centre for Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics.

We work on the intersection of theoretical atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics and quantum chemistry. We are primary interested in engineering novel controllable quantum molecular systems for both fundamental research and upcoming quantum technologies.

Research topics investigated in our group include:

  • Formation, dynamics, and control of ultracold molecules in external fields
  • Ultracold controlled collisions and chemical reactions
  • Cold mixtures of ions, atoms, and molecules
  • Magnetically tunable Feshbach resonances in ultracold gases
  • Accurate ab initio electronic structure calculations for small molecules
  • Molecular precision measurements for fundamental physics
  • Quantum dynamics and simulations with quantum few-body and many-body systems

Research highlights:
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  • M. Z. Walewski, M. D. Frye, O. Katz, M. Pinkas, R. Ozeri, M. Tomza
    Quantum control of ion-atom collisions beyond the ultracold regime
    Science Adv. 11, eadr8256 (2025)
  • Y.-X. Liu, L. Zhu, J. Luke, M. C. Babin, M. Gronowski, H. Ladjimi, M. Tomza, J. L. Bohn, T. V. Tscherbul, K.-K. Ni
    Hyperfine-to-rotational energy transfer in ultracold atom-molecule collisions
    Nature Chem. in press (2025)
  • S. Finelli, A. Ciamei, B. Restivo, M. Schemmer, M. Inguscio, A. Trenkwalder, K. Zaremba-Kopczyk, M. Gronowski, M. Tomza, M. Zaccanti
    Ultracold LiCr: a new pathway to quantum gases of paramagnetic polar molecules
    PRX Quantum 5, 020358 (2024)
  • J. J. Park, H. Son, Y.-K. Lu, T. Karman, M. Gronowski, M. Tomza, A. O. Jamison, W. Ketterle
    Spectrum of Feshbach resonances in NaLi + Na collisions
    Phys. Rev. X 13, 031018 (2023)
  • P. Weckesser, F. Thielemann, D. Wiater, A. Wojciechowska, L. Karpa, K. Jachymski, M. Tomza, T. Walker, T. Schaetz
    Observation of Feshbach resonances between a single ion and ultracold atoms
    Nature 600, 429 (2021)
  • T. Feldker, H. Fürst, H. Hirzler, N. V. Ewald, M. Mazzanti, D. Wiater, M. Tomza, R. Gerritsma
    Buffer gas cooling of a trapped ion to the quantum regime
    Nature Phys. 16, 413 (2020)
  • A. D. Dörfler, P. Eberle, D. Koner, M. Tomza, M. Meuwly, S. Willitsch
    Long-range versus short-range effects in cold molecular ion-neutral collisions
    Nature Commun. 10, 5429 (2019)
  • T. Schmid, C. Veit, N. Zuber, R. Löw, T. Pfau, M. Tarana, M. Tomza
    Rydberg molecules for ion-atom scattering in the ultracold regime
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 153401 (2018)
  • M. Tomza
    Energetics and control of ultracold isotope-exchange reactions between heteronuclear dimers in external fields
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 063201 (2015)
  • M. Tomza, R. Gonzalez-Ferez, C. P. Koch, R. Moszynski
    Controlling magnetic Feshbach resonances in polar open-shell molecules with non-resonant light
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 113201 (2014)

Reviews:

Book:

  • A. Dawid, J. Arnold, B. Requena, A. Gresch, M. Płodzień, K. Donatella, K. Nicoli, P. Stornati, R. Koch, M. Büttner, R. Okuła, G. Muñoz–Gil, R. A. Vargas–Hernández, A. Cervera-Lierta, J. Carrasquilla, V. Dunjko, M. Gabrié, P. Huembeli, E. van Nieuwenburg, F. Vicentini, L. Wang, S. J. Wetzel, G. Carleo, E. Greplová, R. Krems, F. Marquardt, M. Tomza, M. Lewenstein, A. Dauphin
    Machine learning in quantum sciences
    Cambridge University Press in press (2025) / arxiv (2023)

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Autumn 2024

Spring 2023

Autumn 2021

Summer 2019