News (2021)9 September 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter“Using the interactions between light and matter to utilize in novel technologies”Photo: Oxford Martin School, Fisher StudiosProf. 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 MatterAnkit Disa accepts professorship at Cornell UniversityPhoto: MPSD/Joerg HarmsMPSD 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 HighlightsStructure of membrane protein opens up possibilities for antibioticsPhoto: MIN/UHH/TidowA 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 MatterVisit to the quantum computer specialistsPhoto: UHH/Kira OsterOn 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 HighlightsTable-top electron camera catches ultrafast dynamics of matterPhoto: DESY, Timm RohwerScientists 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 HighlightsOverview of Floquet engineering of quantum gasesPhoto: UHH/Weitenberg, SimonetHow 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 HighlightsUltracold atoms spontaneously set into superfluid rotationPhoto: AG HemmerichUltracold 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 MatterOn the trail of a fictitious professor: new game about physics and the Bahrenfeld campusPhoto: CUI, Eileen SchwanoldThe 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 HighlightsAstonishing diversity: Semiconductor nanoparticles form numerous structuresPhoto: UHH, Stefan WernerThe 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 HighlightsTrapped photons make strontium titanate ferroelectricPhoto: S. Latini / U. de GiovanniniPhotons 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 HighlightsA time crystal stabilized by dissipationPhoto: AG HemmerichScientists at Universität Hamburg have for the first time realized a time crystal phase stabilized by controlled dissipation. The researchers used an...20 July 2021|Advanced Imaging HighlightsX-ray view of self-organisation nanostructuresPhoto: 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...15 July 2021|Advanced Imaging of MatterCreating holograms without laser safety gogglesPhoto: privateDaniel 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 HighlightsShaking up fermions into higher Bloch bands shapes new generation of quantum simulatorsPhoto: AG HemmerichFor 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 MatterSeries for Young Researchers successfully completedPhoto: CUI, Graduate SchoolWith 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...16 June 2021|Advanced Imaging of MatterQuantum researcher Eugene Demler receives Hamburg Prize for Theoretical PhysicsPhoto: Joachim Herz StiftungThe Russian-American researcher Eugene Demler is to receive the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics 2021. Demler, who has been a physics professor...15 June 2021|Advanced Imaging HighlightsWhite Paper of the Centre for Molecular Water Science publishedPhoto: CMWSMore than 45 institutions from Europe and across the globe have joined in an initiative for a new research centre at DESY, unveiling the many secrets...9 June 2021|Advanced Imaging of MatterMolecules & Schools at mint:pink - experiment with soap bubbles shows the diversity of chemistryPhoto: Molecules & SchoolsEven with very simple means, it is possible to show impressively what chemistry can do. For the mint:pink program day "Chemistry and Biochemistry,"...8 June 2021|Advanced Imaging HighlightsTeam hunts down elusive phonoriton with light trapped in a cavityPhoto: U. de Giovannini / S. Latini / J. Harms, MPSDScientists at the MPSD and the MIT have come up with a prediction that trapped light can be used to create a new kind of particle in a solid...7 June 2021|Advanced Imaging of MatterNew call for dynaMENT mentoringPhoto: dynaMENTThe call for applications for a new round of dynaMENT Mentoring for Women in Natural Sciences is now open. The program is designed for women in...Previous articlesMore articlesA project of Universität Hamburg in cooperation with
