A material that conducts and insulates – does it exist? Yes, researchers first described so-called topological insulators in 2005, which prevent current flow inside but are extremely conductive on the surface. The states that lead to the formation of three-dimensional solids around the disturbance p…

Swarm behavior, as we know it from birds and fish, serves as an inspiration for researchers in a recent project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The goal of the transregional collaborative research center (TRR-SFB) "Quantum Cooperativity of Light and Matter," supported with 11 million…

The spin research at TU Kaiserslautern (TUK) rests on three strong pillars: The State Research Center OPTIMAS focusing on optics and materials science, the Collaborative Research Center "Spin+X," and the new research building LASE (Laboratory for Advanced Spin Engineering), which will soon be ready…

The research on quantum memories for photons by Prof. Michael Fleischhauer, who leads the Theoretical Quantum Optics research group at TU Kaiserslautern (TUK), has received a prestigious accolade from the renowned journal "Physical Review A". First published in 2002 under the title "Quantum memory f…

Cyanobacteria are older than humanity and play a central role in Earth's biogeochemical cycles: they fix carbon dioxide and produce oxygen via photosynthesis. A team of researchers from TU Dresden, together with Dr. Michelle Gehringer from TU Kaiserslautern and scientists from Hochschule Kaiserslaut…

Researchers led by the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (TUK) and the University of Vienna have succeeded in constructing the fundamental building block for a novel computer circuit: Instead of electrons, magnons in the nanoformat take over information transfer. The so-called “magnonic half-ad…

A team of theoretical physicists from TU Kaiserslautern and the University of Manitoba in Canada has demonstrated through complex numerical simulations on the high-performance computer "Elwetritsch": Quantum particles in an exotic non-equilibrium phase, known as many-body localization, are not stabl…

Magnetism offers new possibilities to develop more powerful and energy-efficient computers, but realizing magnetic computing on the nanoscale is a challenging task. A research team from Kaiserslautern, Jena, and Vienna reports a significant breakthrough in the field of ultralow-power computations us…

Professor Dr. Johannes Herrmann, who heads the Cell Biology department in the Faculty of Biology at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (TUK), has become a new member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. The Academy functions as an independent interface between society, science, an…

Compensating for overexposure when photographing – without manually attaching and adjusting filters: Thanks to a new technology developed by physicists at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (TUK), this is now possible. The electrically controllable gradient filters use a so-called electrochr…