Light induced dynamics and control of correlated quantum systems : Department of Physics : University of Hamburg

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About the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 925

The SFB 925 addresses the dynamics of the many – one of the deepest and most challenging problems in modern physics: How does collective behaviour emerge from the interactions of multiple degrees of freedom, especially when the system is driven away from equilibrium? The spectacular advances in photon science with new sources of THz and X-ray radiation, in quantum gas physics and in many-body physics have put us in a unique position to tackle this problem comprehensively: We will go beyond imaging the quantum dynamics and reach out to steer many-body states with light to reach new emerging functionalities.
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