Physicists at the MPQ have engineered the lightest optical mirror imaginable. The novel metamaterial is made of a single structured layer consisting only of a few hundred identical atoms arranged in the two dimensional array […]
An international team of physicists from the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (LMU) and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics together with collaborators from the University of Cambridge, TU Berlin and the Université Libre de Bruxelles succeeded […]
Semiconductors play an important role, be it in electronics, optoelectronics or photovoltaics. But like other solid bodies, they are quantum many-body systems. Therefore, a calculation of their material properties would overburden conventional computers. Instead, this […]
Flore Kunst, postdoc in Ignacio Cirac’s Theory Group, is awarded with the “Oseen Medal” for the best doctoral thesis. After being named “Female Physicist of the Week” by the German Physical Society (DFG) in March […]
Physicists of the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics have measured the flight times of electrons in molecules after their creation with light. The small quantum particles were emitted from a specific atom within the molecules, which […]
Exotic atoms, in which electrons are replaced by other subatomic particles of the same charge, allow deep insights into the quantum world. After eight years of ongoing research, a group led by Masaki Hori who […]
MPQ Scientists opened a new window into the quantum world. After eight years they succeeded in a challenging experiment with PSI and CERN: they created an artificial atom, the so-called pionic helium, in which the […]
Dr. Flore Kunst, Postdoc researcher in the Theory group at MPQ, which is directed by Ignacio Cirac, was nominated the “Female Physicist of the Week” by the German Physical Society (DPG). With this initiative the […]
