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Quantum Dynamics & Control

Division Prof. Dr. Thomas Pfeifer

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.

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Joint effort in the search for new physics

As part of an international collaboration MPIK researchers carried out highly precise measurements as well as calculations on atomic transitions in…

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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.…

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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.…

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