
News overview
All news at a glance.
-
Snapshots of photoinjection
Ultrafast laser physicists from the attoworld team at LMU and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have gained new insights into the dynamics of electrons in solids immediately after photoinjection.
-
Beyond the limits of light
The research team led by LMU physicist Ralf Jungmann is using a new technique to enhance fluorescence microscopy to the Ångstrom scale.
-
Keeping time with an atomic nucleus
Nuclear clocks could allow scientists to probe the fundamental forces of the universe in the future. LMU researchers have made a crucial advance in this area as part of an international collaboration.
-
Chiral spin liquids and non-Abelian anyons
New study suggests pathway toward investigating chiral spin liquids.
-
DFG grant for physicist
Space plasma physicist Elena Kronberg has been awarded a DFG research grant through the Heisenberg program.
-
In search of life in the universe
How do we detect life on exoplanets via astronomy? This is the question being asked by theoretical astrophysicist Kevin Heng.
-
-
Proteins set vesicles in motion
Biophysicists have designed a new cell-like transport system that represents an important milestone on the road to artificial cells.
-
On the trail of a mysterious force in space
An initial study of dark energy with eROSITA X-Ray telescope indicates that it is uniformly distributed in space and time.
-
Two LMU researchers awarded HFSP grants
Dieter Braun and Christof Osman, together with international partners, have each received funding worth around a million euros from the Human Frontier Science Program.
-
New ERC grant
Early-career scientist at LMU obtains prestigious Starting Grant from European Research Council for work on metasurfaces.
-
Second stage for quantum simulation project PASQuanS
The EU flagship project PASQuanS2 with 25 partners coordinated by Immanuel Bloch, is funded by the European Union.
-
-
The right twist
Stacked layers of ultrathin semiconductor materials feature phenomena that can be exploited for novel applications.
-
Droplets in motion
LMU physicists investigate the dynamics of active protein droplets in cells.
-
Life on distant moons
Free-floating planets do not orbit a sun. Their moons may still have liquid water, and thus the basis for the emergence of life. Munich-based researchers have now determined the necessary properties.
-
AI in physics class – teaching and learning with technologies of the future
Professor Jochen Kuhn investigates learning with and about artificial intelligence (AI) in schools and universities. In addition, he researches established digital media and technologies of the future.
-
Artificial intelligence for rapid simulation of data
New collaboration on digitalization in basic scientific research
-
When the invisible was made visible
Wilhelm C. Röntgen died in Munich 100 years ago, on 10 February 1923. We talk to historian of science Kärin Nickelsen about the discoverer of X-rays.
-
Microwaves direct the interplay of waltzing molecules
The existence of so-called super molecules has long been predicted theoretically. Now, a Munich team of researchers managed for the first time to create the conditions for proving these exotic entities.
-
New technology to generate green hydrogen
LMU physicist Emiliano Cortés about a novel strategy for the production of chemicals in a cleaner and zero-carbon emission manner
-
Biological patterns: directed by intracellular flows
LMU physicists have shown how fluid flows influence the formation of complex patterns
-
Physicist awarded ERC Grant
The European Research Council has awarded a Proof of Concept Grant to Prof. Alexander Högele
-
Simulation of superconductivity
A Munich team of researchers has for the first time monitored in an experiment how positive charge carriers in a solid-state model combined to form pairs. This process could play an important role in understanding high-temperature superconductivity.
-
The magic angle
LMU physicists have uncovered mysterious properties of twisted trilayer graphene
-
Breakthrough of the Year 2022
The Physics World magazine has chosen the recent research of Dr. Marcus Ossiander and Dr. Martin Schultze as one of the top ten breakthroughs of 2022.
-
ORIGINS PhD Awards 2022 for Riccardo Arcodia and Alan Ianeselli
This year, the ORIGINS Cluster PhD awards go to Riccardo Arcodia, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and Alan Ianeselli, LMU Munich.
-
More control over plasma accelerators
Physicists at the Centre for Advanced Laser Applications at LMU Munich have combined two plasma-based methods of particle acceleration for electron beams.
-
What robotics can learn from amoebae
LMU researchers have developed a new model to describe how biological or technical systems form complex structures without external guidance.
-
Fifteen LMU scientists and academics make Highly Cited Researchers list
The latest analysis of publications places fifteen LMU scientists and academics among the most successful in their chosen field.
-
Forgetting visualized in brain cells
LMU physicist Paola Coan presents new imaging technique that allows brain cells of mice suffering from Alzheimer's disease to be visualized in previously unattained quality.
-
ERC Synergy Grant for Georgi Dvali: exploring a new physics
LMU physicist Georgi Dvali has been awarded the prestigious European Research Council Synergy Grant for a project at the interface of quantum physics and general relativity.
-
Light-driven molecular swing
Scientists at the LMU and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have used ultrashort laser pulses to make the atoms of molecules vibrate and have gained a precise understanding of the dynamics of energy transfer that take place in the process.
-
New tools for climate monitoring
Equipped with novel instruments, research flights over Canada are furnishing data about the emission of greenhouse gases. LMU physicists are playing a major role in the surveys.
-
Exploring new worlds
LMU physicist Immanuel Bloch has been named Clarivate Citation Laureate for his pioneering research in the field of quantum simulation.
-
On the path to secure communication
LMU physicists generate secret keys for secure communication.
-
Precise disorder
The material graphene and a magic angle: physics with a new twist
-
Pumping up the music of molecules
Laser physicists have used an optical resonator to amplify the characteristic vibrations of molecules excited by laser pulses in such a way that their identification becomes possible even at very low concentrations.
-
Building a bridge from the large to the small
A new theory enables the simulation of complex pattern formation in biological systems across different spatial and temporal scales.
-
Quantum cryptography: Hacking futile
An international team led by LMU physicist Harald Weinfurter has successfully implemented an advanced form of quantum cryptography for the first time. Encryption is more secure against hacking attempts.
-
A microwave freezer for molecules
A team led by quantum physicist Immanuel Bloch has developed a new method to cool gases of polar molecules to near absolute zero. This paves the way for studying quantum effects of exotic forms of matter.
-
Dr. Sophia Gruber wins Klartext Award 2022
Science Communication Award to former CeNS Student Representative
-
Photographing a light helix
With their newly developed "nanoTIPTOE" technique, physicists from LMU and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics managed for the first time to record a helical light field on shortest time and length scales.
-
Quantum Physics and Graphene
Physicist Dmitri Efetov Conducts Research into Graphene, a Carbon Material in Two Dimensions.
-
LMU and Marvel Fusion agree on cooperation to research laser-based nuclear fusion
LMU and the Munich start-up Marvel Fusion will be collaborating in the field of laser research.
-
Record entanglement of quantum memories
Researchers have entangled two quantum memories over a 33-kilometer-long fiber optic connection – a record and an important step toward the quantum internet.
-
DNA with a twist and a pinch of salt
A team of biophysicists led by prof. Jan Lipfert has measured how the twist of DNA depends on the concentration and type of ions in its environment.
-
Controlling the Waveform of Ultrashort Infrared Pulses
An international team of laser physicists of the attoworld team at LMU and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics has achieved unprecedented control over light pulses in the mid-infrared wavelength range.
-
Light-Controlled Reactions at the Nanoscale
Physicists at LMU and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have used for the first time laser light to control the location of light-induced reactions on the surface of nanoparticles.
-
Next-generation AI: networking beyond disciplinary boundaries
At an AI symposium, eight newly appointed AI professors at LMU presented their research.
-
Better insights into Earth’s interior
LMU geophysicist Max Moorkamp has developed a method that allows us to investigate the composition of the Earth with better results.
-
A tug-of-war with corona
How stable are the bonds formed by coronaviruses with human cells? Researchers from LMU have designed a new assay to find out – and to investigate drugs made to prevent the virus from binding.
-
The first stages of DNA evolution
Droplets of dew water on the primordial Earth could have been the first compartments to host the replication of short DNA molecules and their evolution.
-
Climate researchers survey dramatic warming in the Arctic
HALO--(AC)3 field campaign, in which LMU researchers are involved, investigates a worrying phenomenon.
-
Grant: Understanding skin formation
LMU physicist Friedhelm Serwane together with two international collaborators has been awarded an HFSP grant of one million Euros.
-
Revealing the conformational landscape of nucleosomes
A team of scientists led by Professor Jan Lipfert have developed a high-throughput pipeline to image nucleosomes using atomic force microscope imaging to reveal the conformational ensemble of nucleosome structures.
-
Sensing light
Physicists of the attoworld-team at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität have uncovered what happens during the sampling of a light field. This helped them increase the sensitivity of the measurement by up to one order of magnitude.
-
New insights into the formation of brown dwarfs
A team led by LMU astrophysicist Basmah Riaz has detected a special methane compound outside the solar system for the first time.
-
Prestigious award for Ferenc Krausz
Professor Ferenc Krausz has been awarded the prestigious Wolf Prize in Physics. The Hungarian-Austrian physicist receives the prize for his pioneering contributions to ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics.
-
The Faculty of Physics awards the "Theodor-Hänsch-Promotionspreis" (Theodor Hänsch PhD Award) 2021 to Dr. Florian Schüder
Dr. Florian Schüder receives the award for his outstanding dissertation entitled "Advancing and applying Next-Generation DNA-based super-resolution microscopy".
-
-
Work is progressing on the establishment of Munich Quantum Valley
Pioneering network in quantum science has already commenced work and has now been formally founded as an association.
-
Early bird
The attoworld group reports in a video on the research results to date of the BIRD project.
-
Self-organization of complex structures: a matter of time
LMU researchers have developed a new strategy for manufacturing nanoscale structures in a time- and resource-efficient manner.
-
Dmitri Efetov: Exotic physics in the second dimension
New appointment at LMU Munich: Professor Dmitri Efetov holds the Chair of Experimental Solid State Physics at the Faculty of Physics
-
Four new ERC grants at LMU
Four talented early-career researchers have obtained prestigious starting grants together with LMU from the European Research Council.
-
A Cold Pair of Mirrors Made Stable
A team of scientists from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and attocube systems AG have engineered a Fabry-Pérot cavity at cryogenic temperatures under closed-cycle cooling conditions. The results have been published in PRX Quantum.
-
Gas bubbles in rock pores – a nursery for life on Early Earth
Munich and Dresden based researchers create compelling scenario for the evolution of membraneless microdroplets as the origin of life.
-
From pixel to universe and back
Astrophysicist Daniel Gruen is using artificial intelligence to explore the cosmos. He accepted a professorship at LMU’s Faculty of Physics in summer 2021.
-
Discovering the origins of life
On the moment when something entirely new emerged from inanimate matter: The CRC “Emergence of Life” and the Deutsches Museum developed the game AEON.
-
In the nano-aquarium: Infrared super-resolution microscopy of living cells
Physicists at LMU have developed a method for visualizing chemical patterns on unstained living cells in the nanometer range.
-
Make carbonate not carbon dioxide
LMU scientists at the Nano-Institute Munich developed a technique to avoid CO2 in energy conversion processes with carbon-containing fuels
-
Quantum optics: New platform for light-matter coupling
LMU physicists Samarth Vadia and Alexander Högele report in PRX Quantum.
-
In his element
LMU Nobel Prize winner Theodor Hänsch turns 80. The physicist talks about his most important discoveries, but also about exploding chemicals, pink laser guns and his encounters with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
-
Monika Aidelsburger receives prestigious research prizes
The LMU physicist has been awarded both the Alfried Krupp Prize and the Klung-Wilhelmy Science Prize.
-
Structure formation in mini-organs
The development of alveoli in organoids derived from mammary-gland tissue follows the same physical principles as the formation of discrete droplets in a water jet.
-
Superconductivity: When soap bubbles turn to soup
With the help of high-resolution microscopy, Munich based scientists successfully observed the transformation of a metal of magnetic polarons into a normal Fermi liquid.
-
Modeling the Universe with data
Space and time encoded in 320 million Megabytes: LMU astrophysicist Klaus Dolag uses simulations to study how the cosmos evolved.
-
Honor for Prof. Emiliano Cortés
Prof. Emiliano Cortes, W2 tenure-track Professor at the Chair of Hybrid Plasmonics at the Faculty of Physics, has been selected for a special issue of "2021 Emerging Scientist".
-
One-way for thermal radiation
LMU physicists have developed a novel method for contactless cooling of objects.
-
X-ray view of nanostructures
Study reveals formation and self-organisation of materials over multiple length scales
-
-
-
-
-
-
First ATLAS New Small Wheel nears completion
On 28 May 2021, teams of physicists and engineers installed the final "wedge" of the first ATLAS New Small Wheel detector. This was an important milestone for the Collaboration, in preparation for the wheel’s installation in the ATLAS cavern later this s
-
Quantum technologies: Hollow-core light cage on a chip
A German-British research team has developed an on-chip hollow-core light cage that could provide a platform for quantum-storage and quantum-nonlinear applications.
-
Two models, one analysis
Just in time for this year's “Rencontres de Moriond” conference, The ATLAS collaboration released two new results with searches for the supersymmetric partners of the top and the bottom quarks. These searches have been carried out in the group of Dr. Ale
-
-
-
-
The Faculty of Physics awards the "Theodor-Hänsch-Promotionspreis" 2020 to Dr. Isabella Graf
Dr. Isabella Graf receives the "Theodor-Hänsch-Promotionspreis" 2020 from the Faculty of Physics for her outstanding dissertation entitled "Principles of self-organization and self-assembly in biologically inspired non-equilibrium systems - a conceptual
-
-
ERC Starting Grant for Dr. Friedhelm Serwane
What role do mechanical forces play in the development of neural networks, such as the human retina? – This question will be tackled by Dr. Friedhelm Serwane and his new ERC funded research group at LMU, starting in September 2020.
-