Cluster of ExcellenceCUI: Advanced
Imaging of Matter

Metal oxides are abundant in nature and central to technologies such as photocatalysis and photovoltaics. Yet, many suffer from poor electrical conduction, caused by strong repulsion between electrons in neighboring metal atoms. Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD)...

“The whole is more than the sum of its parts” – even in quantum physics. Quantum objects, even simple ones such as atoms with only two possible energy states, can behave completely differently in a group than they do on their own.

Dr. César Cabrera Córdova, an experimental physicist at the University of Hamburg, has been awarded a prestigious Starting Grant from the European Research Council, receiving €1.9 million to uncover the fundamental mechanisms behind superconductivity and open new pathways toward future quantum technologies.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD), in collaboration with international partners, have developed momentum-resolved Floquet optical selection rules. They show how these symmetry-based rules determine the spectral weight distributions of photon-dressed sidebands in time-...

Due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle of quantum physics, atoms and molecules never come completely to rest, even in their lowest energy state. Researchers at the European XFEL in Schenefeld near Hamburg have now been able to directly measure this quantum motion in a complex molecule for the first time. For this...

A research team from Hamburg has developed a novel method that allows for time-resolved structural studies of proteins across a wide temperature range. The team reports the new approach, called 5D serial synchrotron crystallography (5D-SSX), in Nature Communications. It enables the collection of temperature-resolved...