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Research publications 2013
January 04, 2013
Atoms at negative absolute temperature are the hottest systems in the world
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Research publications 2012
December 14, 2012
Extremely brief and intense laser pulses can switch fused silica (quartz) from an insulator to a conductor and back again within quadrillionths of a second.
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December 04, 2012
A new method of cooling polar molecules reveals the potential to investigate gases near absolute zero
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November 22, 2012
Rydberg excitations form ordered structures in a quantum gas due to long-range interactions
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May 18, 2012
A fundamental assumption of physics is toppled: even extremely high-energy radiation is refracted in suitable materials such as silicon or gold
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April 20, 2012
Quantum bits can now be transmitted between two atoms in a controlled way and reversibly stored in the atoms
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Research publications 2011
September 08, 2011
White laser pulses with precisely tailored waveform enable the control of electrons in the microcosm
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July 08, 2011
Researchers can now control whether an extremely short laser pulse releases fast electrons from a metal tip with an accuracy of a hundred attoseconds
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May 02, 2011
A powerful quantum computer could be designed with an incredibly tiny memory
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March 28, 2011
The spin of individual atoms in an optical crystal can be modified so that they can serve as quantum bits or explain unsolved quantum phenomena
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Research publications 2010
July 12, 2010
An international team measures the charge radius of the hydrogen nucleus and stumbles across some mysteries of physics
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June 30, 2010
Contrary to previous assumptions, electrons are catapulted out of an atom during photoemission with a delay
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June 22, 2010
Physicists produce a Bose-Einstein condensate at zero gravity - a step towards extremely sensitive quantum sensors for gravitation
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Research publications 2009
October 14, 2009
Scientists apply optical methods to nano-mechanical objects
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Research publications 2008
September 09, 2008
New method for determining the velocities of stars and other celestial bodies which is a thousand times more accurate
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June 20, 2008
New record in ultrafast metrology: Physicists at Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich are the first to produce light pulses lasting only 80 attoseconds.
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Research publications 2007
April 12, 2007
An international team of researchers has observed the quantum mechanical tunnelling effect for the first time
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March 12, 2007
Physicists at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have succeeded in turning a Rubidium atom into a single-photon server.
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Research publications 2006
October 05, 2006
Researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching and the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen have succeeded in transferring a quantum state of light to a material object - an ensemble of atoms.
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May 29, 2006
Professor Ignacio Cirac, Managing Director at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, has won this year’s Royal Spanish "Prince of Asturias Award"
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May 23, 2006
Professor Ferenc Krausz, Director at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, receives the 2006 IEEE/LEOS Quantum Electronics Award
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April 13, 2006
A Dutch-German team of scientists has succeeded for the first time in controlling a chemical reaction via steering the motion of electrons with ultrashort laser pulses of a precisely controlled waveform.
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Research publications 2005
November 04, 2005
Max Planck researchers in Garching, Germany,
demonstrate quantum chaos in atom ionisation for
the first time
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October 11, 2005
Max Planck researchers lay the foundations for a distributed quantum computer with the "quasipermanent" storing of an atom between two mirrors
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October 04, 2005
Director of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany shares award with two US American physicists
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February 15, 2005
Austrian-German research team demonstrates for the first time a source of coherent kiloelectronvolt X-rays, which promises extraordinary applications
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Research publications 2004
December 17, 2004
Garching and Tübingen physicists have on an "atomic fountain" carried out
Galilei’s leaning tower experiment with quantum objects
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December 17, 2004
Garching and Tübingen physicists have on an "atomic fountain" carried out
Galilei’s leaning tower experiment with quantum objects
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December 03, 2004
Realization of quantum memory for light allows the extension of quantum communication far beyond 100 km
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October 28, 2004
Building block created for quantum-computing, secure communication and quantum Internet
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August 27, 2004
Austrian-German research team demonstrates for the first time an attosecond "oscilloscope" rendering the hyper-fast field oscillations of visible light.
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May 19, 2004
New quantum state of matter revealed by scientists in Munich and Mainz
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February 25, 2004
German-Austrian research team presents a method of measuring time in the region of a few hundred attoseconds, allowing the observation of atomic processes on this time scale
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