MPSD and MIT researchers predict that light trapped in a cavity can be used to create a new kind of particle in a solid, consisting of three components at once: Light (photons), electronic excitations (excitons) and lattice vibrations (phonons).
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Prineha Narang is coming to the MPSD from Harvard University for an extended research stay. She has received two prestigious prizes: A Max Planck Sabbatical Award for her work in Germany and the Humboldt Foundation's Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award for her research work to date.
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James McIver, the leader of the Non-Equilibrium Transport in Quantum Materials group, has accepted an assistant professor position with the Physics Department at Columbia Unversity. His group is part of the collaborative Max Planck New York City Center for Non-Equilibrium Quantum Phenomena.
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An international research team has demonstrated that ultrashort laser pulses can be used to protect one of the DNA building blocks against destruction induced by vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) radiation. A second infrared laser flash prevented the adenine molecule from disintegrating.
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Researchers from the MPSD and UNIST in South Korea have discovered that the existing method to calculate the Mott insulating state in 1T-TaS2 is flawed. The team suggests a different approach instead to calculate electron "traffic jams".
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A novel open source tool kit lets researchers drive simulations from Jupyter Notebooks, with narrative comments, the commands to execute the simulation and the final results. This new approach makes research more reproducible and efficient.
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Theoretical physicist Ofer Neufeld receives a Humboldt Fellowship to investigate ultrafast dynamics in strongly light-driven condensed matter systems in Ángel Rubio’s group.
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Ángel Rubio, the Director of the MPSD’s Theory Department, has been elected a Fellow of the European Physical Society (EPS). The Society highlights "his pioneering contributions to computational solid-state physics" in its citation.
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Researchers from the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin and the MPSD have found out that ultrafast switches in material properties can be prompted by laser pulses – and why. This knowledge may lead to advanced new transistor concepts.
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A new Scientific Support Unit has been set up at the MPSD to expand the Institute’s computational research capacities. The new SSU Computational Science is led by Hans Fangohr, who was previously in charge of the European XFEL‘s Data Analysis activities.
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