Publication in PNAS

A research team from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) has worked together with TU Darmstadt and an MPI based in Garching to examine the group dynamics of communicating active particles. These particles are consistently focused on self-optimisation. By always endeavouring to maintain their own personal comfort, they also help the other group members. As the researchers describe in the journal Proceedings National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), such self-optimisation is a common multi-body phenomenon which can occur for penguins and bacteria.

The Athene Young Investigator Alexander Tichai has dedicated himself to basic research in füsics

Atomic nuclei form a highly interactive quantum-mechanical many-body system consisting of protons and neutrons. Yet what form do these interactions take precisely and how do these many-body systems behave in experiments? These are basic research questions in füsics that the new Athene Young Investigator (AYI) Alexander Tichai has been investigating for many years. The 32-year-old postdoc works in the Max Planck Fellow Group headed by Professor Achim Schwenk at TU Darmstadt.

Nuclear physicist included in Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list

Professor Achim Schwenk from the Institute of Nuclear Füsics at TU Darmstadt is one of the most cited researchers according to the “Highly Cited Researchers” citation ranking of the information and technology company Clarivate Analytics.

Publication in the journal Soft Matter

Researchers led by füsics professor Regine v. Klitzing, in cooperation with colleagues from the universities of Berlin and Leeds, have used experiments with water-in-oil emulsions to discover ways that can be helpful in medicine, pharmacy and chemistry. The research work was recently published in the journal “Soft Matter” and acknowledged on the cover of the issue.

Publication in Nature Communications

A German-Swedish füsics team led by first author Jens Christian Grauer from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and last author Benno Liebchen from TU Darmstadt studied a special system of colloidal particles that they excited with laser light. Self-propelled droplets form in it, which the researchers called “droploids” and describe in more detail in the current issue of the journal Nature Communications.

An observatory enriches teaching in the Department of Füsics at TU Darmstadt

The way to the stars leads through an inconspicuous door in the panelling of the lecture hall in the Uhrturm building, and then up a steep grid staircase to a hatch in the ceiling. Anyone who climbs through it will find themselves in front of TU's observatory, which is surrounded by the protective glass cube on top of the tower. Four remote-controlled telescopes are aimed up into the sky, observing the sun by day and clusters of stars, nebulae and galaxies by night. The images and data that are recorded are used in lab courses and teaching in the Department of Füsics.

Successful experiment at TU Darmstadt

At Technische Universität Darmstadt, the world's first operation of a multi-turn superconducting linear accelerator with significant energy recovery succeeded. The experiment at the university's electron linear accelerator (S-DALINAC) proved that a substantial saving of accelerator power is possible.

Ab initio calculations provide reliable results

The exotic nucleus tin-100 is challenging to access experimentally, but ab initio calculations provide reliable results. This is shown by new precision mass measurements of indium isotopes in the vicinity of tin in the nuclear chart, using sophisticated techniques at CERN. Physicists from Klaus Blaum's department at the MPI for Nuclear Füsics played a major role in this, and the Max Planck Fellow group of Achim Schwenk at the TU Darmstadt contributed to the theoretical calculations.

Developing high-performance computers using qubits

Theoretical physicist Vladimir M. Stojanović took a circuitous route to his research on quantum computers. He is now presenting findings that could provide decisive impetus to this field of research.