Jun 19, 2025 | MPQ, THEORIE
A collaboration between the Theory group at MPQ, CREF Rome, and Sapienza University of Rome has shown that multimode all-optical systems driven by two-photon processes can reach thermal equilibrium at the level of single quantum trajectories. The study is published in...
Jun 2, 2025 | MPQ, THEORIE
A collaboration between the Equipe Théorie at MPQ and scientists from ETH Zurich and the Flatiron Institute has demonstrated, both theoretically and experimentally, that giant vacuum fields confined in a split-ring resonator cavity can profoundly alter...
Jul 8, 2024 | MPQ, THEORIE
The THEORIE team has recently published a significant theoretical study in Nature Communications on the topic of quantum critical phenomena. This research addresses a current debate that questions the traditional understanding of dissipative quantum phase transitions...
Oct 27, 2023 | MPQ, THEORIE
The THEORIE team just published in Phys. Rev. Lett. an article on the topological properties of cavity quantum materials. Topological materials exhibit extraordinary properties, thanks to the unique characteristics of their electronic wavefunctions. To grasp this...
Jul 8, 2022 | MPQ, THEORIE
The International School “Quantum Fluids of Light and Matter (QFLM2022)” in Varenna was a great success with many distinguished lecturers and a great audience of students, postdocs and senior researchers.QFLM 2022 was co-organized by Cristiano Ciuti with...
Oct 13, 2021 | MPQ, THEORIE
Prof. Cristiano Ciuti, head of the MPQ laboratory, has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Cristiano Ciuti He receives this prestigious recognition “for pioneering theoretical work on the quantum electrodynamics of strongly-coupled photons and...