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17 September 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

„Yes, I can do that too! I am not alone when it will be difficult”

Photo: UHH/ M. Feck

Visibility and networking is paramount when pursuing a career in science - especially for female scientists, who often encounter structural...

15 September 2021|Internal

FAQ on the coronavirus and its impact on Universität Hamburg

Das Hauptgebäude der Universtität Hamburg.

Photo: UHH/Schell

How are examinations currently taking place? What rules are in place for working from home? You will find answers to the most important questions on...

Contribution from the university's newsroom

15 September 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Laser loops create ultrafast electric currents in materials

A bi-chromatic intense laser field of red and blue spirals irradiated onto a solid in the form of a lattice excites electrons and generates transverse photocurrents shown as green lines.

Photo: Jörg Harms, MPSD

Theoreticians at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) predict that a unique laser source could produce highly...

14 September 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Filming antibiotic resistance in Slow-Motion

Photo: European XFEL

Using the X-ray laser European XFEL an international team of researchers, including scientists from DESY and Universität Hamburg, has successfully...

14 September 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Magnetic field turns handed superconductor into liquid crystal-like nematic state

On the left is a blossom-like structure, on the right a Bloch sphere which looks like a ball

Photo: Tao Yu, MPSD Hamburg

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg and RWTH Aachen University have suggested a...

9 September 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

“Using the interactions between light and matter to utilize in novel technologies”

Photo: Oxford Martin School, Fisher Studios

Prof. Dr. Dieter Jaksch will join the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences in the winter semester 2021/22 from the University of...

23 August 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Ankit Disa accepts professorship at Cornell University

Photo: MPSD/Joerg Harms

MPSD researcher Ankit Disa has accepted a professorship at Cornell University in the United States. He has been working as an experimental physicist...

23 August 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Structure of membrane protein opens up possibilities for antibiotics

Membrane protein FoxB of the hospital pathogen P. aeruginosa as spirals in different colors.

Photo: MIN/UHH/Tidow

A research team from the Department of Chemistry at Universität Hamburg has studied the membrane protein FoxB in the hospital germ "Pseudomonas...

18 August 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Visit to the quantum computer specialists

Science senator Katharina Fegebank, innovation senator Michael Westhagemann, Prof. Klaus Sengstock and Dr. Jonas Siegl in the school lab

Photo: UHH/Kira Oster

On the first stop of the Innovation Summer Tour, Science Senator Katharina Fegebank and Innovation Senator Michael Westhagemann today stopped at...

14 August 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Table-top electron camera catches ultrafast dynamics of matter

The system fits on a lab table. It is adjusted with the help of an optical laser which is visible as a green line.

Photo: DESY, Timm Rohwer

Scientists at DESY and Universität Hamburg have built a compact electron camera that can capture the inner, ultrafast dynamics of matter. The system...

13 August 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Overview of Floquet engineering of quantum gases

Illustration of the modification of the properties of a lattice via periodic shaking as example for Floquet engineering.

Photo: UHH/Weitenberg, Simonet

How can we control a system and induce new properties at will? One important technique is periodic driving of the system, also known as Floquet...

12 August 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Ultracold atoms spontaneously set into superfluid rotation

Illustration of the rotating order: whirls are indicated by circles with arrows illustrating the sense of spinning. Colours illustrate the local phase of the order parameter

Photo: AG Hemmerich

Ultracold bosonic atoms filled into the second Bloch band of a hexagonal optical lattice made of three interfering laser beams can form intriguing...

11 August 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

On the trail of a fictitious professor: new game about physics and the Bahrenfeld campus

A young woman in a white coat writes formulas on the blackboard

Photo: CUI, Eileen Schwanold

The new escape game of the school laboratory "Light & Schools" has passed its baptism of fire: For the first time, schoolgirls followed in the...

5 August 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Astonishing diversity: Semiconductor nanoparticles form numerous structures

The microscopic picture shows that the nanoparticles initially arrange themselves into a layer with hexagonal symmetry.

Photo: UHH, Stefan Werner

The structure adopted by lead sulphide nanoparticles changes surprisingly often as they assemble to form ordered superlattices. This is revealed by an...

28 July 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Trapped photons make strontium titanate ferroelectric

Illustration of a crystal embedded in an optical cavity

Photo: S. Latini / U. de Giovannini

Photons trapped in a cavity can cause a crystal known as strontium titanate (SrTiO3) to become ferroelectric, according to a new study by the MPSD’s...

20 July 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

X-ray view of self-organisation nanostructures

Die Illustration zeigt, wie man alle Schritte vom Ausgangsstoff bis zu den fertig assemblierten Nanostrukturen entschlüsseln kann, wenn man Röntgenabsorption und Röntgenstreuung kombiniert.

Photo: Nature Communications, Grote/Zito/Frank et al. [Source see below] CC BY 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

For many applications, materials can be made a great deal more efficient by giving them a specific nanoscale structure. Materials that organise...

20 July 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

A time crystal stabilized by dissipation

Illustration zur Entstehung eines Zeitkristalls

Photo: AG Hemmerich

Scientists at Universität Hamburg have for the first time realized a time crystal phase stabilized by controlled dissipation. The researchers used an...

15 July 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Creating holograms without laser safety goggles

Daniel Welsch sitting on stairs laughing

Photo: private

Daniel Welsch has received the Ernst Grimsehl Prize of the Department of Physics at Universität Hamburg for the best master's degree in the course of...

15 July 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Shaking up fermions into higher Bloch bands shapes new generation of quantum simulators

The illustration shows how a fermionic quantum gas of neutral atoms is loaded into selected higher Bloch bands of an optical lattice.

Photo: AG Hemmerich

For the first time, researchers at Universität Hamburg have loaded a fermionic quantum gas of neutral atoms into selected higher Bloch bands of an...

17 June 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Series for Young Researchers successfully completed

Photo: CUI, Graduate School

With a series of "Young Researcher Meetings" that has just ended, the Graduate School has found a way to mitigate some of the disadvantages of the...

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News

„Yes, I can do that too! I am not alone when it will be difficult”

FAQ on the coronavirus and its impact on Universität Hamburg

Laser loops create ultrafast electric currents in materials

Filming antibiotic resistance in Slow-Motion

Magnetic field turns handed superconductor into liquid crystal-like nematic state

“Using the interactions between light and matter to utilize in novel technologies”

Ankit Disa accepts professorship at Cornell University

Structure of membrane protein opens up possibilities for antibiotics

Visit to the quantum computer specialists

Table-top electron camera catches ultrafast dynamics of matter

Overview of Floquet engineering of quantum gases

Ultracold atoms spontaneously set into superfluid rotation

On the trail of a fictitious professor: new game about physics and the Bahrenfeld campus

Astonishing diversity: Semiconductor nanoparticles form numerous structures

Trapped photons make strontium titanate ferroelectric

X-ray view of self-organisation nanostructures

A time crystal stabilized by dissipation

Creating holograms without laser safety goggles

Shaking up fermions into higher Bloch bands shapes new generation of quantum simulators

Series for Young Researchers successfully completed

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