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Light induced dynamics and control of correlated quantum systems
SFB 925Light induced dynamics and control of correlated quantum systems

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News (2022)

20 December 2022|SFB925

Theoreticians discover why optical cavities curb the rate of chemical reactions

Resonant vibrational strong-coupling can inhibit chemical reactions.

Photo: E. Ronca / C. Schäfer

Chemical processes are all around us. From novel materials to more effective medicines or plastic products – chemical reactions play a key role in the...
21 September 2022|SFB925

Terahertz light from superconducting stripes

High-temperature superconducting cuprates emit THz radiation once their surface is illuminated with ultrashort optical pulses.

Photo: MPSD/Harms

Why do some materials carry electrical currents without any resistance only when cooled to near absolute zero while others do so at comparatively high...
20 June 2022|SFB925

Scientists from DESY and the University of Hamburg succeeded in imaging snapshots of molecular orbitals of pentacene on metal surfaces during energy transfer. Their work has been recently published in the journal “Nature Communications”.

Figure 1 Snapshots of molecular orbitals during photoinduced electronic and nuclear transformation.

Photo: UHH\Marvin Reuner and Daria Gorelova

In his Nobel Lecture, Herbert Kroemer famously stated that “The interface is the device”. Scientists from DESY and Hamburg University unveiled...
9 June 2022|SFB925

Researchers observe continuous time crystal

The image shows cold atoms (in yellow) in an optical resonator on their way to form a time crystal.

Photo: AG Hemmerich

Researchers from the Institute of Laser Physics at Universität Hamburg have succeeded for the first time in realizing a time crystal that...