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Pint of Science

May 24, 2023 | MPQ, QITE, SQUAP, STM, TELEM

Several of our researchers are participating in the Pint of Science festival, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. It is one of the largest science festivals in the world. Until May 24th, researchers and the general public come together over a drink in...

Excitonic insulator: when electrons decouple from the crystal lattice

Mar 29, 2023 | MPQ, SQUAP

Many-body interactions in quantum materials are one of the main drivers of exotic ground states, such as Mott insulators, superconductors, and density waves. Figure:Two-color polarization resolved time resolved Raman scattering set-up. The pump pulse at 1030 nm drive...

Supraconductivity Thematic Days of the GDR Meetic

Nov 29, 2021 | MPQ, SQUAP

Two thematic days on superconductivity, as part of the GDR Meetic, are being organized on December 6th and 7th by Y. Gallais, M. Cazayous, A. Sacuto (MPQ), and D. Colson (CEA-Saclay). They will take place in the Buffon amphitheater at the University of Paris (15 Rue...

High-Tc superconductivity highlighted in “Reflets de la physique”

Nov 16, 2021 | MPQ, SQUAP

The SQUAP team has published an article, coordinated by Alain Sacuto, in the Reflets de la Physique journal of the French Physical Society (SFP). Reflets de la physique Levitation of a magnet sandwiched between two YBa2Cu3O7 superconductor pellets cooled to the...

Exploring the elasticity of multiferroic materials

Mar 3, 2021 | MPQ, SQUAP

Multiferroics are materials that simultaneously display a ferroelectric and a magnetic order, which in some cases interact. The combination of these properties holds promises for future hybrid computing architectures that transform information from one state into...

A new milestone in the understanding of high-temperature superconductivity in copper oxides

Sep 2, 2019 | MPQ, SQUAP

By studying the phase diagram of a cuprate, researchers from the SQUAP team at the MPQ laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from the LPS (CNRS/Univ. Paris-Sud), LNCMI (CNRS) and SPEC (CEA/CNRS), have demonstrated the existence of a microscopic link between...