News from the Graduate Center

Six MPGC-QM scientists are among the top 1% of the world's most cited scientists in the Web of Science in 2024 more

MPSD Director Angel Rubio along with an elite team of world-renowned scientists— Tal Schwartz (Tel Aviv University), Thomas Ebbesen (University of Strasbourg), and Abraham Nitzan (University of Pennsylvania)—has been awarded a highly competitive ERC Synergy Grant valued at €10 million. This funding will support their research into the electromagnetic effects in molecular systems under strong light-matter coupling, a field at the cutting edge of chemistry and quantum physics.
Michael Ruggenthaler and Dominik Sidler, both Group Leaders in Rubio’s team, will play a central role in achieving the ambitious goals of this project. more

Beyond CMOS - non-binary multicore memory element from nanoscopic racetrack more

MPSD Director Philip Moll has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). In its citation, the Society highlights his achievements in the field of microstructured quantum matter, in particular the “elucidation of three-dimensional electronic transport on the micron-scale in quantum materials by creatively applying focused ion beams to precisely shape samples, thereby revealing previously inaccessible physics.“ more

Orbital angular momentum monopoles, which have been predicted to offer significant advantages for next generation of electronic devices, have now been observed for the first time in chiral materials by scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle and their international collaborators. This groundbreaking discovery, published in the prestigious journal Nature Physics, could mark a major step forward in the development of chiral electronics. more

Five MPGC-QM scientists are among the top 1% of the world's most cited scientists in the Web of Science in 2023 more

The European Research Council (ERC) is funding three MPGC PIs, Laura Classen, Claire Donnelly, and Niels Schröter with one of the highest recognitions for early career researchers in Europe more