QMA Bridge Dresden 2025

Location

TU Dresden

Important Dates

Travel Information & Registration

There will be bus transportation organized from Würzburg to Dresden.

Bus leaving times will be:

Thursday, 16th Jan 7:00 am from Würzburg, Am Hubland

Saturday, 18th Jan 10:00 am from Dresden, Lukasplatz

Please be there 15 minutes before the bus is leaving.

Registration information

• Registration is free, please see registration form below. For participants from Würzburg the hotel "Gästehaus am Weberplatz" is booked.
• Dresden people are also invited to join. Please register and indicate if you want to participate in lab tours, the KittyQ Escape Room, the social event on Thursday, or the exhibition opening RETHINKING PHYSICSat the Kulturpalast Dresden.
• Lab tours and the theory talk can be booked later.

Programm

Please find a preliminary programm here.

Lab Tours

• HDZR 1:
  The Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory (HLD), an institute of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf (HZDR) and founding partner of the European Magnetic Field Laboratory (EMFL), is one of the few user facilities for research at highest magnetic fields worldwide. It is the only facility of its kind in Germany. The lab tour will provide insights into the research topics, measurement and magnet technology as well as the HLD's pulsed current capacitor bank.
• HZDR 2:
  

  You will visit the "cave" housing the free-electron laser, where its operation and applications will be explained, and explore the terahertz labs. Here, beams of light in the 5–250 micrometer range are used to study fast processes in quantum materials and semiconductors: from  pump-probe experiments to nonlinear spectroscopy.

  Please note: Entry is not allowed for pregnant or breastfeeding individuals due to safety regulations.

• Dufouleur (IFW): Quantum quantum transport lab tour
  Labs dedicated to quantum transport measurements at the IFW will be shown. The set-up are dedicated to very low temperature measurements (dilution fridges, ³He refrigerator, VTI, etc …) and measurement under magnetic field (vector fields, rotators, etc…).
• Chandra (MPI-CPfS): Exploring Single Crystal Synthesis Facilities at MPI-CPfS
  The tour will provide an overview of the single crystal synthesis labs at MPI-CPfS, showcasing equipment such as high-temperature muffle furnaces, CVT setups, Czochralski, Bridgman, laser floating zone, and high-temperature centrifuge systems, along with essential vacuum sealing techniques. It will also highlight the advanced capabilities of the FIB and methods for characterizing single crystals.
• Ruck (TUD): Materials Design and Synthesis Tour
  The tour includes a visit to the different solid state synthesis lab (with a demonstration of glass ampoule sealing), the X-ray diffraction, and electron microscopy labs.
• Geck (TUD): X-ray facilities at the IFMP
  At IFMP, we operate two versatile X-ray facilities that offer exceptional resolution and sensitivity. During the visit, we will introduce the capabilities of these facilities, the available sample environments and visit our high-pressure laboratory.
• Chernikov (TUD): Ultrafast microscopy laboratory: Time-, spectrally- and spatially-resolved studies of low-dimensional materials, focused on many-particle phenomena. You will see excitation laser sources, a typical microscopy setup operated down to cryogenic temperatures, as well as ultrafast streak cameras at the heart of the light detection to monitor transient optical phenomena in solids.  

  Van der Waals assembly laboratory: Preparation of ultrathin van der Waals samples and more complex heterostructures involving deterministically stamped layers. You will see several setups for micro-mechanical cleavage and transfer used for a variety of layered materials, from inorganic semiconductors, insulators, and semimetals to inorganic-organic hybrid perovskites.

• Leo (TUD):
  Polymer-based electrochemical systems offer various possibilities to implement principles of in-material computing, including stochastic computing due to programmable phase transitions or spatial multiplexing. We show in our labs how such materials and devices can be easily integrated into asynchronous circuits using printing methods. Furthermore, we demonstrate an evolvable electronic system where dendritic polymer structure are sused to build spatially coupled synaptic arrays.
• Wolter-Giraud (IFW): Thermodynamic insight - probing new quantum materials in a multifaceted approach

  Visit our thermodynamics lab where we explore magnetism, superconductivity, and other fascinating phenomena in emergent materials in a broad parameter space (down to mK temperatures, high magnetic fields and high pressure).

Lecture:

• J. Budich (TUD/ITP): "Topological Insulators: a New Periodic Table For Physics"

Organizers

Fabian Köhler

Jakob Lindenthal

Kerstin Brankatschk