July 2024

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29JUL 2024
FAU LMQ News
FAU LMQ Research Spotlight: A liquid crystal source of photon pairs
Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) – the splitting of a single photon in two – is crucial for photonic quantum technologies. In its very essence, SPDC breaks the inversion symmetry. It is therefore only possible in non-centrosymmetric crystals but not in isotropic materials like ordinary liquids or gases. Recently, however, ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals have been […]
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15JUL 2024
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When quantum physics takes the bar by storm
The terms “Wenz”, “Solo” and “Sie” are as much part of a Bavarian pub as the beer tap and the regulars’ table. It’s where you’ll often see groups of (usually) four players huddled over their playing cards trying to be the first to get 60 points at the traditional card game known as “Schafkopf”. FAU […]
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15JUL 2024
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Awards and functions June 2024
Honors and awards for our researchers, students and employees Working at FAU is “excellent” – a large number of honors and awards for our researchers, students and employees regularly prove this. This month, the following members of FAU were delighted to receive recognition. Awards Titus Bornträger, FAU physics student, and a student team consisting of […]
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05JUL 2024
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FAU LMQ Research Spotlight: Picky light – how light ignores interactions of matter
In their recent work, Andreas Schellenberger and Kai Phillip Schmidt investigate correlated light-matter quantum systems introducing additional matter-matter interactions. Their key finding is that the matter-matter interactions do not play a role in the emerging light-matter physics at low energies for the investigated case of macroscopic systems and small light-matter couplings.
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04JUL 2024
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Dr. Hans Riegel prizes 2024 awarded
What do oat milk, the blue morpho butterfly and the Nuremberg Reichswald forest have in common? They are three topics of outstanding pre-scientific work with which pupils from Franconia have won a Dr. Hans Riegel prize. The Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the Dr. Hans Riegel Foundation awarded prizes to a total of 18 projects in […]
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