Measurement and Inter-/Back-/Re-/Action at the Origin of Motion
"Where motion comes to life”
Motion plays a pivotal role in life, the universe, and everything.
- Why do things start to move?
- How fast are the smallest movements?
- When does quantum motion turn classically visible?
- In what way can we steer movements?
- What is time?
In our division's → research we use “fast” bright light and multi-dimensional measurement techniques to illuminate these and further questions evolving around the dynamical quantum world.
Director
Prof. Dr. Thomas Pfeifer
Phone: +49 6221 516-380
Assistant:
Alexandra Heid
Rebekka Werner
Phone: +49 6221 516-270
Fax: +49 6221 516-604
sekretariat.pfeifer@mpi-hd.mpg.de
News
Bringing weak transitions to light
A new general concept for laser-induced enhancement of faint spectral lines is experimentally demonstrated for quasi-forbidden transitions in helium.…
DPG Dissertation prize for Viviane Schmidt
This year's dissertation prize of the German Physical Society (DPG), section atoms, molecules, quantum optics and photonics, was awarded to Dr.…
Soft X-ray Hanle effect for lifetime determination in highly charged ions
For the first time, the Hanle effect was detected in the soft X-ray regime for helium-like nitrogen ions. This opens up a new method for lifetime…