#MayThe4thBeWithYou – Happy #StarWarsDay!
While lightsabers remain firmly rooted in the realm of science fiction, MPL’s scientists are researching light and its interaction with matter. In this context, light serves as both a tool and a subject of #research. Our basic research ranges from individual photons over application and development of super-resolution microscopes to experiments involving high-intensity #laser pulses.
May the (laser) force be with you!
📸 MPL
Inside the lab.
Exploring how light behaves at the nanoscale, one experiment at a time.
From microscopy to data analysis, this is where research happens.
QnanoOptics at UniOvi
#nanophotonics #quantumoptics #researchlife #lablife #nanoscience #physics #sciences
#StandardModel of #ParticlePhysics verified to one trillionth accuracy: Experiments with hydrogen confirm fundamental #QuantumTheory up to the 13th decimal place and solve proton radius puzzle 👉 https://prisma.uni-mainz.de/en/2026/03/11/standard-model-of-particle-physics-tested-to-a-trillionth-of-a-percent-accuracy/
The QnanoOptics team (University of Oviedo) taking a short break during Nanolight 2026 in Benasque.
A fantastic week of nanophotonics, scientific discussions, and new ideas in the Pyrenees.
I am still alive, and there are big news for the project – news that are over one month overdue, but I was so focused on writing grant proposals that I couldn’t find time to write about it. Long story short: we finished the preprint of our spin liquid paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05630). This work originated much before I came to Darrick Chang’s group, thus I am only a third author, but I did my part within the QUINTO project.
What is it about? Basically, atoms can make photons interacting with each other. In general, the interaction of many simple objects can lead to unusual, counterintuitive behavior. For example, many interacting electrons can form fractional quantum Hall states, and many interacting spins can form spin liquids – both being complicated quantum states, whose unusual properties manifest themselves with emergence of “quasiparticles” – objects that behave like individual particles, although in reality they are collective states of many particles. These quasiparticles can behave unlike any elementary particle found in nature – for example, they can have a fraction of single electron charge, and be neither bosons nor fermions but “anyons”. In the paper, we ask: can we observe similar effects with atoms and light?
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#physics #science #quantum #CondMat #CondensedMatter #QuantumOptics #ColdAtoms #AtomicPhysics
Il était acquis depuis 180 ans que l'effet Faraday dépendait seulement de la partie électrique de la lumière, mais une équipe israélienne vient tout juste de bousculer cette vieille hypothèse en montrant que le champ magnétique est tout aussi important.
PsiQuantum Unveils Plans For A Massively Scalable, Light-Based Quantum Supercomputer.
#PsiQuantum, #QuantumComputing, #QuantumSupercomputer #PhotonicQuantum #PhotonicChips #QuantumOptics #QuantumTechnologies #QuantumDataCenter, #QuantumEngineering, #Semiconductor
MPI for the Science of Light
Grégory R.
QnanoOptics
Scientific Frontline
Mainz University
QUINTO project
AlcorNews
Jacky Kapadia