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MPQ scientists obtain evidence of many-body localization in a closed quantum system.

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This prestigious prize is awarded to early career researchers. Dr. Christian Groß received the award for his  outstanding experimental studies of quantum many-body sy stems using quantum gas microscopes 

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As one of 30 young female scientists Karina Jiménez-García received the L'Oréal-UNESCO fellowship "Pour let femmes et la Science". She was selected from a pool of more than 1,000 applicants and received the award...

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On September 28th Immanuel Bloch gave a public talk at the KITP about the realization of Feynman's Dream of a Quantum Simulator. Slides of the talk are publicy accessible under:...

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The Hector Fellow Academy has released a film about the work of Immanuel Bloch's group.

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Scientists at MPQ observe “Pauli blocking” between fermionic lithium atoms in an optical lattice

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On 15 December 2015, the theoretical physicist Dr. Wolfgang Lechner was awarded the Eduard Wallnöfer Prize for the new architecture of a quantum computer he had been working on together with Professor Peter Zoller and Dr. Philipp...

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Dr. Christian Groß, a young research scientist working in the Quantum Many-Body Systems Division of Professor Immanuel Bloch at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, has been selected by the European Research Council as one...

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Theoretical physicists in Innsbruck have proposed a scalable quantum computer architecture. The new model, developed by Wolfgang Lechner, Philipp Hauke and Peter Zoller, overcomes fundamental limitations of programmability in...

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Researchers in Florence and Innsbruck have simulated a physical phenomenon in an atomic quantum gas that can also be observed at the edge of some condensed matter systems: chiral currents. The scientists have published the...

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Using ultracold atoms trapped in light crystals, scientists from the MPQ, LMU, and the Weizmann Institute observe a novel state of matter that never thermalizes.

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On 27 June 2015, UQUAM was presented at the Long Night of Science in Garching, Germany. 400 visitors came to the MPQ, which was open to the public from 6 pm to midnight. Visitors interested in UQUAM could inform themselves about...

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One of the leading experts in theoretical condensed matter physics, Professor Eugene Demler from Harvard University (Cambridge, USA), has joined the MPQ as a winner of a Humboldt Research Award. This Award is granted by the...

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At the 65th annual meeting of the Max Planck Society in June 2014 the Austrian physicist Professor Peter Zoller (Photo: C. Lackner), Chair of Theoretical Physics at the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck and Director at the...

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A team of research groups from Austria, France, Germany, and Israel receives 10 Million Euro for joint research on ultracold quantum matter.

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