Departmentof Physics

Valence electrons determine a crystal’s material and chemical properties, shaping how solids conduct electricity, interact with light, and form chemical bonds. Yet directly measuring how these electrons rearrange and move on atomic length scales remains a major experimental challenge. In Physical Review X, an international...

How exactly does unconventional superconductivity arise? In the journal Nature, an international research team involving the University of Hamburg describes a direct microscopic connection between a correlated normal state and the resulting superconductivity in so-called moiré materials.

Researchers at the University of Hamburg, the University of Toulouse, and the DESY and ESRF research institutes have observed for the first time in real time how iron-sulfur nanostructures form in solution. Using time-resolved X-ray methods, the researchers were able to visualize the entire reaction pathway – from the...