Libor Šmejkal receives ERC starting grant
The European Research Council (ERC) has announced prestigious starting grants to researchers to set up their own teams and conduct research on the topics of their choice. One of these researchers is...
View ArticleLifting the Veil of Topological Censorship
Topological protection provides unprecedented robustness of physical phenomena against all kinds of perturbations; but in doing so, it exercises topological censorship by hiding all kinds of...
View ArticlePatrick Lenggenhager receives SPS thesis award
Every year, the Swiss Physical Society (SPS) awards a few young physicists for outstanding research work during their doctoral studies. This year, Patrick Lenggenhager, who joined MPI-PKS last year as...
View ArticleLeader cells created with light cannot pull cell trains on their own
In biological processes such as embryonic development, wound healing, and cancer invasion, cells move in cohesive groups. These groups are often led by a so-called leader cell, which is thought to pull...
View ArticleThe call for the 2025 Distinguished PKS Postdoctoral Fellowship is open!
The application deadline for this call is the 15 of November 2024. Distinguished PKS postdoctoral fellows appear personally along with the departments and groups on the main research page of the...
View ArticleCounterdiabatic driving for periodically driven systems
Periodically driven systems have emerged as a useful technique to engineer the properties of quantum systems, and are in the process of being developed into a standard toolbox for quantum simulation....
View ArticleListening to hidden signals: how biological systems optimise inaccessible...
Living organisms must sense and process information from their surroundings to survive, but they often cannot directly “listen” to external signals. For example, the internal processes of a red blood...
View ArticleLibor Šmejkal awarded the Walter Schottky Prize
Libor Šmejkal, group leader at the MPI-PKS jointly with MPI-CPfS, has been awarded the 2025 Walter Schottky Prize by the German Physical Society (DPG) "for his prediction of altermagnetism, a new class...
View ArticleStrong-field control in two-photon ionization
A few years ago, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems [Saalmann et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 153203 (2018)] predicted theoretically that the chirp of a short...
View ArticleEngineering Hierarchical Symmetries
Symmetry plays a crucial role in understanding fundamental phenomena such as conservation laws, the classification of phases of matter, and their transitions. Recently, researchers have been exploring...
View ArticleCutting through the stresses in cell sheet folding
During development, tissues fold into the functional shapes of organs and organisms. This morphogenesis is driven by a complex interplay of mechanical forces and molecular signalling. While the latter...
View ArticleThe Physics of "Cacio e pepe" sauce
"Cacio e pepe" is a traditional recipe from Rome. It consists of tonnarelli noodles served with a cream of cheese, starch-enriched water, and pepper. Despite its simplicity, it is hard to avoid cheese...
View ArticleNanoscale mapping of altermagnetism
Nature magazine published an article about nanoscale mapping of altermagnetism, coauthored by an international team, including Libor Šmejkal, a group leader at MPI-PKS and MPI-CPfS. The experimental...
View ArticleNonequilibrium Transitions in a Template Copying Ensemble
Nature magazine published an article about nanoscale mapping of altermagnetism, coauthored by an international team, including Libor Šmejkal, a group leader at MPI-PKS and MPI-CPfS. The experimental...
View ArticleAltermagnetism recognised among "Top 10 Breakthroughs of 2024"
Nature magazine published an article about nanoscale mapping of altermagnetism, coauthored by an international team, including Libor Šmejkal, a group leader at MPI-PKS and MPI-CPfS. The experimental...
View ArticleUnbuckling mechanics of epithelial monolayers under compression
Nature magazine published an article about nanoscale mapping of altermagnetism, coauthored by an international team, including Libor Šmejkal, a group leader at MPI-PKS and MPI-CPfS. The experimental...
View ArticleFragmented superconductivity in the Hubbard model as solitons in...
High-temperature superconductivity, the phenomenon allowing current to flow without resistance in materials near room temperature, is one of the most captivating problems of modern condensed matter...
View ArticleFrom noisy cell size control to population growth
Nature magazine published an article about nanoscale mapping of altermagnetism, coauthored by an international team, including Libor Šmejkal, a group leader at MPI-PKS and MPI-CPfS. The experimental...
View ArticleGiant molecules assembled atom-by-atom
Nature magazine published an article about nanoscale mapping of altermagnetism, coauthored by an international team, including Libor Šmejkal, a group leader at MPI-PKS and MPI-CPfS. The experimental...
View ArticleWhere does Universality hide?
Nature magazine published an article about nanoscale mapping of altermagnetism, coauthored by an international team, including Libor Šmejkal, a group leader at MPI-PKS and MPI-CPfS. The experimental...
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