Topologically ordered phases are exotic low-temperature phases of matter. They are of interest both from a fundamental scientific perspective, because they exhibit unusual properties such as excitations that are neither…
On Tuesday, 24th March 2026, the FAU Pofile Center Light.Matter.QuantumTechnologies hosted the regular FAU LMQ Workshop at the FAU’s Guesthouse Villa Jordan in Erlangen. Beginning with a warm welcome to…
We are pleased to announce the FAU LMQ Talk on Thursday, January 29th, at 14:15, at the Department of Physics, Lecture Hall E, Staudtstraße 5, Erlangen. The talk, titled “Graph…
In the birth year of quantum mechanics, 1925, the physicist Lucy Mensing travels from the physics Christmas party in Göttingen into the future. There, she hopes to discover how the…
The lecture series in the winter semester 2025/2026 starts with a contribution to the International Year of Quantum Physics and Technology, followed by talks about how to make the invisible…
From gravity to electromagnetism, algebraically decaying long-range interactions are ubiquitous in nature. In the context of quantum many-body systems, repulsive algebraically decaying long-range interactions are relevant in a variety of…
On October 25, 2025, the Long Night of Sciences 2025 will take place in the metropolitan region of Nuremberg-Fürth-Erlangen. In this context, the FAU Profile Center Light.Matter.QuantumTechnologies will be particularly…
Visiting Prof. Dr. Kai Phillip Schmidt, Chair of Theoretical Physics Each semester, FAU President Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger visits professors at their institutes. There, he wants to talk to them…
The past days the QuCoLiMa iRTG had their final meeting. They used the time to present and discuss results obtained over the past years of QuCoLiMa. Apart from presentations by…
For the summer semester 2025, three talks of the „Modern physics on Saturday morning“ lecture series are scheduled. Two of the talks are held by PIs from our FAU LMQ…