Scientific News

5 August 2025|IQP Schnabel

Generation and explanation of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen entanglement

Is it possible to predict measurement results without being limited by the Heisenberg uncertainty relation? Yes, but only if you use “EPR”...

16 July 2025|IQP Schnabel

Optical sensitivities of current gravitational wave observatories at higher kHz, MHz and GHz frequencies

Current gravitational wave observatories could also measure signals at MHz and GHz frequencies.

We have calculated the sensitivity of operational...

14 March 2025|IQP Schnabel

Mikhail Korobko awarded the Rudolf-Kaiser-Prize 2024

Prof. Dr. Markus Drescher (Head of Physics Department), Prof. Dr. Roman Schnabel (Group leader Nonlinear Quantum Optics, where Mikhail Korobko...

19 December 2024|IQP Schnabel

Laser Scanning Microscopy for Tomographic Imaging of Roughness and Point Absorbers in Optical Surfaces

High-precision laser interferometric instruments require optical surfaces with a close to perfect contour, as well as low scattering and...

8 July 2024|IQP Schnabel

"Gravity and Entanglement" Workshop

Hamburg 07 - 09 October, 2024

With this workshop at the ZOQ, the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg supported the scientific transfer of various...

27 October 2023|IQP Schnabel

Overcoming the Challenges of Quantum Decoherence in Ultra-Precise Sensing

Quantum decoherence has long been a significant barrier to achieving the highest levels of sensitivity in ultra-precise force sensors. In our latest...

21 June 2023|IQP Schnabel

Machine learning ("artificial intellegence") improves experiment

Seismic disturbances are a problem in many physical experiments, including gravitational wave observatories. We were able to build an artificial...

4 August 2022|IQP Schnabel

Einstein would be doubly amazed

Prof. Dr. Roman Schnabel, whose research has made this new high technology possible since 2002, describes what is so remarkable about squeezed light.

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15 March 2022|IQP Schnabel

Macroscopic quantum mechanics in gravitational-wave observatories and beyond

Recent observations on the GW observatories LIGO and Virgo showed that the quantum uncertainty of intense laser light affected the quantum uncertainty...

22 November 2021|IQP Schnabel