Category: Research

9. July 2025

FAU LMQ Research Spotlight: Assembly of Vertically Linked Two-Dimensional Materials via Laser Irradiation

Assembling vertical heterostructures from two-dimensional (2D) materials in a scalable and spatially controlled way is still a major challenge. In a joint work, teams from the Institute of Chemistry and…

26. June 2025

FAU LMQ News Maria Chekhova Research

ERC Advanced Grant for FAU researcher Maria Chekhova

The team around Prof. Dr. Maria Chekhova, Professor of Optics at FAU and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, has been funded with the highest European research grant. With a highly competitive ERC-Advanced Grant of 2,5 Million Euro for five years, the scientific team will investigate how complex quantum light can be generated and used.

24. June 2025

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FAU LMQ Research Spotlight: Laying the Ground Work for Time and Frequency Distribution over a Fiber-based Infrastructure Throughout Europe

There is a growing interest in time and frequency (T&F) distribution in networks that can be attributed to various factors: The application of optical clocks for monitoring geophysical phenomena including…

11. June 2025

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FAU LMQ Research Spotlight: Photonic computing needs more nonlinearity: acoustics can help

Artificial intelligence (AI) is widely used and designed to augment human skills such as data analysis, text generation and image recognition. Its performance has surpassed that of humans in many…

6. May 2025

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FAU LMQ Research Spotlight: In quantum mechanics, there are two paths you must go by

In their recent work published in Quantum, our member Davide Lonigro and collaborators tackle a fundamental question about the nature of measurement in quantum mechanics: can we describe quantum measurements…

22. April 2025

FAU LMQ News FAU LMQ Research Spotlight Joachim von Zanthier Publications Research

FAU LMQ Research Spotlight: How Complex is Quantum Mechanics?

Quantum mechanics is known for being complex — not just because of its counter-intuitive concepts, like particles existing in multiple places at once, but also because it fundamentally relies on…

3. April 2025

Christopher Eichler FAU LMQ News IYQ Joachim von Zanthier Jörg Schulze Michael J. Hartmann Research

Collegium Alexandrinum Summer semester 2025: Nature and culture in transition

The lecture series in the summer semester 2025 deals with small and tiny parts, reports on new developments in medical research and makes a contribution to the International Year of…

1. April 2025

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FAU LMQ Research Spotlight: Turning noise into insight: Ultrafast pump-probe phase-randomized tomography

It may sound counterintuitive, but sometimes noise can actually improve a measurement. In the quantum world, the chaotic nature of noise is not just a disturbance, but it carries valuable…

11. March 2025

FAU LMQ News Joachim von Zanthier Publications Research

Quantum mechanics: hypercomplex, or “just” complex?

Today, physicists are still asking themselves whether quantum mechanics needs hypercomplex numbers. FAU researchers Ece Ipek Saruhan, Prof. Dr. Joachim von Zanthier and Dr. Marc Oliver Pleinert have been investigating…

4. March 2025

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FAU LMQ Research Spotlight: Flying Particle Thermosensor in Hollow-Core Fiber Based on Fluorescence Lifetime Measurements

With the introduction of hollow-core fibers (HCFs), previously infeasible sensor concepts based on optically trapped microparticles inside an air-filled core of the HCF become available, enabling a high spatial resolution…