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Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Condensed Matter in the Time Domain
Non-equilibrium states can be created in condensed matter through ultrashort pulsed external stimuli such as light, pressure, electrical voltage, or particles. This Collaborative Research Centre aims to achieve a material-specific, microscopic understanding of such non-equilibrium states. To this end, new tools in experimental and theoretical physics will be developed to describe the time evolution from the moment of the stimulus to a state close to equilibrium in time and space.
overview
Laser pulse in a far field modified by changes of the refractive index that results from the laser pulse itself.
Captured by: Ping Zhou (AG Bovensiepen)
Au(111) surface captured with a low energy electron microscope. On the Gold surface, small "hills" were seen that look like spring flowers in false colors.
Captured by: Pascal Dreher (AG Meyer zu Heringdorf)
Layout of the recently built SFG spectrometer. This should enable the measurements of molecular level structures and femtosecond dynamics at various interfaces.
Captured by: Yujin Tong (AG Campen)
AFM of atomically thin and triangular tungsten disulfide films deposited on sapphire, which look like a pyramid landscape.
Captured by: Dave Marnold & Erik Pollmann (AG Schleberger)
Two double quantum dots coupled by Coulomb interaction host coherent charge oscillations that are synchronized in frequency and phase.
Captured by: Eric Kleinherbers (AG König)
Negative curvature simulated in an analog model of an optical lattice with a central pentagonal disclination.
Captured by: Nikodem Szpak (AG Schützhold / AG König)
Electron density redistribution in a Fe/(MgO)3 (001) heterostructure upon a fs-laser excitation with a photon energy of 7.75 eV after 20 fs, simulated using real-time time-dependent DFT.
Captured by: Elaheh Shomali & Markus Gruner (AG Pentcheva)
"Dance around Center Spot" - STM image of an ordered surface alloy of Gold and Silver atoms on Si(111) creating a sill unresolved reconstruction.
Captured by: Christian Wiethoff & Michael Horn von Hoegen (AG Horn von Hoegen)
Graphene-based THz detector: the logarithmic-periodic antenna couples the THz radiation to a micrometer-sized graphene flake that is in the center of the antenna. The antenna with a diameter of 1 mm is patterned by electron-beam lithography, the substrate is semi-intrinsic SiC.
Captured by: Martin Mittendorff (AG Mittendorff)
View into a UHV chamber used for pulsed laser deposition. An invisible 248 nm laser is hitting a rotating SrTiO3 target, causing heated material to be ejected with a visible, bluish plasma plume, used to deposit thin films onto a heated substrate. The red hot surface of the substrate heater at 700°C is visible in the center, reflected on the back of the open shutter.
Captured by: Soma Salamon (AG Wende)
On a hot spoon, a drop of water takes on an unusual shape. This analogy experiment of the Ö project shows how matter can assume unusual dynamic states when it is far from equilibrium. The causal reason for the unusual water star lies in the Leidenfrost effect.
Captured by: Axel Lorke & Nicolas Wöhrl (AG Lorke / Project Ö)
Neugierig?Latest News
[23.05.2022] Beamtime at the European XFEL on the SCS instrument: Time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy of spin-crossover molecules in the ultrafast time regime.
[08.04.2022] We provide support for colleagues fleeing Ukraine or facing persecution in Russia.
[24.02.2022] Pushing the limits in real-time measurements of quantum dynamics
[22.01.2022] New publication about spin-crossover molecules in Chemistry - A European Journal
[01.09.2021] 25th German female Physicist's conference
Latest publications
[12.04.2022] The role of electrons during the martensitic phase transformation in NiTi-based shape memory alloys
[29.03.2022] Pair-Amplitude Dynamics in Strongly Coupled Superconductor–Quantum Dot Hybrids
Gernot Schaller, Friedemann Queisser, Nikodem Szpak, Jürgen König and Ralf Schützhold
[28.03.2022] Geometric energy transfer in two-component systems
Ryan Requist, Chen Li, and Eberhard K. U. Gross
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 380: 20200383 (2022).
[17.03.2022] Energy, Momentum, and Angular Momentum Transfer between Electrons and Nuclei
Chen Li, Ryan Requist, and Eberhard K. U. Gross
Upcoming Events
| 31.05.2022 | Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Claudia Draxl, HU Berlin |
| 08.06.2022 | Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Christopher Jarzynski, University of Maryland |
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| 20.-23.06.2022 |
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