Current Press Releases

The Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics  (MPIK), the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics  (MPQ), the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt  (PTB) and Japan's largest comprehensive research institution RIKEN  have proposed a new research center to intensify their successful collaboration in the domain of "Time, Constants and Fundamental Symmetries".

The application of this Max Planck-RIKEN-PTB Center for Time, Constants and Fundamental Symmetries has been approved in October 2018 for five years. The new initiative started on January 1, 2019, the official opening ceremony will be on April 8, 2019 at RIKEN in Tokyo, Japan. The total financial budget will be about 1.5 M€ per year, shared equally between MPG, PTB and RIKEN. The research center will be operated by three Co-Directors: Klaus Blaum (MPG), Ekkehard Peik (PTB), and Stefan Ulmer (RIKEN).

The MPIK participates with two divisions in the "Center for Time, Constants and Fundamental Symmetries", our division on “Physics with Stored and Cooled Ions” leaded by Klaus Blaum and the division of Thomas Pfeifer on "Quantum Dynamics and Control".

The new Max Planck-RIKEN-PTB Center will provide a synergetic and close collaboration, especially on the students' level, between experimental groups in atomic physics, antimatter physics, nuclear physics, quantum optics and metrology to tackle fore-front topics in precision measurements of time and constants of nature, to test fundamental symmetries and contribute to ultra-high precision searches for physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics.
The leaders of the Max Planck-RIKEN-PTB Center expect that the intensified collaboration will lead to the development of novel experimental techniques which will outperform the state-of-the-art of contemporary experiments.

Please read more in the press releases of the MPIK  (idw ) and the PTB .