MPQ scientists achieve long storage times for photonic quantum bits which break the lower bound for direct teleportation in a global quantum network. more

Physicists in the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics (run jointly by LMU Munich and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics) have developed an attosecond electron microscope that allows them to visualize the dispersion of light in time and space, and observe the motions of electrons in atoms. more

International team of scientist develops new concept for trapping and manipulating electrons with sound waves more

A team of scientist at MPQ and Caltech proposes the realization of two-dimensional topological insulators by classical optical networks. more

Extremely short electron bunches are key to many new applications including ultrafast electron microscopy and table-top free-electron lasers. more

Using a new cooling technique MPQ scientists succeed at observing collisions in a dense beam of cold and slow dipolar molecules. more

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, using high precision laser spectroscopy of atomic hydrogen, confirm the surprisingly small value of the proton radius determined from muonic hydrogen. more