Scientists at TU Darmstadt extend research on quantum computing to new dimension

December of each year, OPTICA, the U.S. optical society, selects scientific breakthroughs of particular interest to the broad optics community that have emerged over the past year. In this year, research conducted in the group of Prof. Gerhard Birkl at the Institute of Applied Physics at Technische Universität Darmstadt has been highlighted in this exclusive list. The special issue “Optics in 2023” of the journal „Optics & Photonics News” (OPN) reports on work conducted by Malte Schlosser, Dominik Schäffner, and their colleagues, towards advancing unique architectures for quantum computing and quantum simulation.

DFG extends Collaborative Research Centre 1245

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is extending two Collaborative Research Centres (SFB) at TU Darmstadt for a further funding period. One SFB is in the field of nuclear physics.

Dr Alexander Zintler receives award for his dissertation

The Technical University of Darmstadt and CEOS GmbH as the prize sponsor honour Dr Alexander Zintler for his research work on thin oxide films.

DAAD Exchange programme

On Thursday, 09.11.2023, the Physics Department had a visit from a group of physics students from the University of Nariño as part of the DAAD exchange programme.

Research of the Experimental Solid State Quantum Optics Group

Quantum physics enables a new form of imaging that could make cancer diagnostics more precise. Physicists from Darmstadt, Jena and Barcelona have made quantum imaging more resilient to noise which may pave the way for practical applications such as in medicine.

Renovated and converted atrium forms new (teaching) centre for physics

The newly built “Forum Physik” under the historic atrium roof of the physics institute building has been inaugurated on 13 June 2023.

Studies on foams stabilised with soft particles and polymers awarded

Regine von Klitzing and her team at the Institute for Condensed Matter Physics have received the ECIS Solvay Award 2023 for their recent pioneering studies on foams stabilised with soft particles and polymers. The award was presented at the European Colloid and Interface Society (ECIS) conference in Naples, Italy.

Assembling lines of colloidal particles with an ion-exchange bead

Researchers at TU Darmstadt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and Wuhan University have developed an approach that can be used to arrange ink particles in water to form lines and letters. The theoretical model for this was developed by TU professor Benno Liebchen. The research results have now been published in the renowned journal “Small”.

State of Hesse supports research work with 1.9 million euros

The TU Darmstadt has been awarded another LOEWE Top Professorship: it goes to astro- and nuclear physicist Achim Schwenk, who has been researching and teaching at the university's Department of Physics since 2009. For his research on forces in atomic nuclei and neutron stars, the LOEWE research funding line of the state of Hesse provides around 1.9 million euros over a period of five years.

New international Master's degree program „Soft Matter and Materials“

The practice-oriented and research-focused cooperative degree programme “Soft Matter and Materials” of the Rhine-Main Universities Mainz and Darmstadt will start in the coming winter semester. The programme is one of the first of its kind worldwide. Applications are possible until 1 September 2023.