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
Ulrich Bonse Prize for Ana Sofía Morillo Candás
Ana Sofía Morillo Candás received the 2026 Ulrich Bonse Prize for her pioneering work in the field of nonlinear X-ray spectroscopy.
Intense light bent out of shape - ultrafast lenses made from gas
Researchers from the MPIK in Heidelberg used an atomic gas as a time-dependent lens to shape and spectrally manipulate intense high-frequency laser…
Prof. Dr Thomas Pfeifer elected as Chair of the DPG’s Atomic Physics Division
At this year’s spring meeting of the Section for Atoms, Molecules, Optical Physics and Plasmas (SAMOP) of the German Physical Society (DPG) in March,…