Physicists at MPQ have tested quantum mechanics to a completely new level of precision using hydrogen spectroscopy, and in doing so they came much closer to solving the well-known proton charge radius puzzle, which is […]
A German-Canadian collaboration, with physicists from the attoworld-team of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, and the Joint Attosecond Science Laboratory of the National Research Council and the University of Ottawa, […]
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 […]
German chancellor Angela Merkel announced a 2 Billion innovation program for quantum technology including the investment in two quantum computers.
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 have discovered spontaneous static magnetic fields with broken time-reversal symmetry in a class of iron-based superconductors.
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 […]
Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) scientists have discovered a pioneering laser-driven approach to generate a topological state in graphene.
Volkswagen is launching in Lisbon the world’s first pilot project for traffic optimization using a D-Wave quantum computer.