For the last two weeks we were happy to welcome Yoann Grisard-Vanhove in our team for a school internship. He is a French scholar, just 14, grew up in Australia and is highly interested in quantum science. We introduced him to our research and the way we work. It was really inspiring how open minded...
Using a Phase Field Crystal approach we have studied the behavior of grain boundaries in periodic and aperiodic crystals that are composed of patchy colloids. In case of periodic structures we find that the energy cost of a grain boundary is hardly affected by the preferred binding angles of the pat...
For students who are interested in a theses in the Quantum Science of Light and Matter team there is a new video for the UPhUF (Unsere Physik - unsere Forschung, our physics - our research) event. In addition, there will be a poster session on July 2nd, 2025 at 3pm in front of lecture hall HG.
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U1 Toric Code - Fascinating physics but no topological order. Check out the new preprint arXiv:2506.00126 entitled „Absence of topological order in the U(1) checkerboard toric code“ by LEP members Max Vieweg, Lea Lenke, Viktor Kott, Andreas Schellenberger, and Kai Phillip Schmidt.
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For students who are interested in a theses in the Soft Matter Theory Group there is a new video for the UPhUF (Unsere Physik - unsere Forschung, our physics - our research) event. In addition, there will be a poster session on July 2nd, 2025 at 3pm in front of lecture hall HG.
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Kai Phillip Schmidt and his team won the teaching award 2025 of the physics department for the lecture „quantum mechanics (theoretical physics 3)“ held in the summer term 2024.
New preprint entitled „Quantum Monte Carlo study of the bond- and site-diluted transverse-field Ising model“ (arXiv:2505.07627) dealing with the effects of dilution on the critical properties of quantum matter! This work is a nice piece of work from Calvin Krämer and Max Hörmann from kps_lab at ...
Congratulations to Dr. Paul Fadler who has very successfully defended his phd last Friday (09.05.2025) at our chair at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg! He was jointly supervised by Martin Eckstein (now University of Hamburg) and Kai Phillip Schmidt focusing on „quantum and classical light-matter couplin...
Congratulations to Nico Bassler who has defended very successfully his doctoral thesis entitled "Quantum Optics with Atoms and Molecules" on Tuesday, 06.05.2025. Nico was jointly supervised by Claudiu Genes at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (now Technische Universität Darmstadt) w...
Today the president of FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg Joachim Hornegger visited our LEP as well as the FAU Profile Center Light.Matter.QuantumTechnologies. Great exchange on various topics including our research on quantum science of light and matter, future projects and activities. Of course, also our team ...
