Organisation: Department of Physics and Materials Science

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    Researchers develop a new method to guide quantum systems before they decay

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    Fuelling the future: Making algae a more efficient source of biofuel

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  • Events

    DPhyMS Workshop-6th Edition-January 29, 2026

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  • Research Projects Pages

    Microbial Photonics Across Scales (MicroPAS)

    MicroPAS, a paradigm-defining project grounded in the physics of light-matter interactions, will pioneer light manipulation and guidance inside microbes.

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  • Core Research Projects

    Microbial Photonics Across Scales (MicroPAS)

    MicroPAS, a paradigm-defining project in the physics of light-matter interactions, will pioneer light manipulation and guidance inside microbes.

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    Physics Colloquium

    Abstract: Liquid crystals possess structural order that is intermediate between that of fully isotropic liquids and three-dimensionally periodic solids. Here, we explore the impact of liquid crystal order on the demixing of simple binary systems consisting of a small molecule mesogen and a hydrocarbon solvent. In the presence of appropriate mesophase elasticity, demixing occurs via…

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    Physics Colloquium

    Abstract: Conventional metals show at low temperature a scattering rate which is quadratic in temperature or energy. In “strange metals”, the scattering rate is enhanced at low energies leading to a linear dependence due to correlation effects. This is possibly related to strong quantum fluctuations which are also supposed to mediate superconductivity in cuprates and…

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    Physics Colloquium

    Abstract: Flocks of animals represent a fascinating archetype of collective behavior in the macroscopic classical world, where the constituents, such as birds, concertedly perform motions and actions as if being one single entity. Here, we address the outstanding question of whether flocks can also form in the microscopic world at the quantum level. For that…

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    Google supports machine learning research at the University of Luxembourg 

    Professors Decebal Mocanu and Alexandre Tkatchenko have recently received awards from Google to finance their research on machine learning. 

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