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Research at the Department of Physics

Physics at 51猎奇 is a research-intensive department. The six institutes with almost 40 professorships work on a wide range of current research topics. The working groups are involved in regional and supra-regional research networks and numerous scientific collaborations.

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The Department of Physics is anchored in the university's profile area of Space, Time and Matter and is dedicated to researching the physical principles on which all natural science is based. The HMWK-funded 鈥渃luster project" ELEMENTS - Exploring the Universe from microscopic to macroscopic scales (2021 - 2025) is very important for the department. Three research focuses are integrated within the profile area, building bridges from the elementary building blocks of matter in particle, nuclear and atomic physics to their collective interaction in solids, artificially producible quantum materials, the interior of the densest compact stars or molecules that perform important functions in living organisms.

Main research areas

Matter under extreme conditions

During the development of the early universe and in the interior of compact astrophysical objects, extreme temperatures and densities are realized that do not occur naturally on Earth and can only be produced and studied for fractions of a second by means of heavy ion collisions, for example at CERN-LHC or GSI-FAIR. The research focus on matter under extreme conditions investigates the microscopic interactions and resulting properties of matter under such conditions, which also requires extensive technological developments in the field of accelerator and detector physics. This focus includes research from the Institute of Nuclear Physics, the Institute of Theoretical Physics and the Institute of Applied Physics.

Since their first detection in 2015, gravitational waves, which are produced during the fusion of compact astrophysical objects, have become an indispensable tool for measuring the gravitational interaction of the largest masses and the behavior of matter under extreme conditions.

In the potential field of astrophysics and gravitational waves, mergers of neutron stars in particular are studied, which provide direct information on the general properties of matter at nuclear densities and beyond.The work in this field has direct links with neighboring fields of research, such as heavy ion physics. The genesis of heavy chemical elements in the course of such astrophysical processes is the subject of further theoretical and experimental investigations.

Kondensierte Materie und Quantenmaterialien

Der Forschungsschwerpunkt Kondensierte Materie und Quantenmaterialien untersucht neuartige physikalische Ph盲nomene von Festk枚rpern verschiedener Gr枚脽e (von nano-skalig bis makroskopisch), die sich aus einer besonders starken Kopplung zwischen den elastischen Eigenschaften des Materials und seinen elektronischen Quantenphasen ergeben. Die Untersuchungen richten sich auf kollektive Ph盲nomene wie unkonventionelle Supraleitung, frustrierter Magnetismus, elektronische Multiferroelektrizit盲t sowie topologische Quantenzust盲nde und stellen damit eine Verbindung dar zum Forschungsschwerpunkt Lichtgetriebene Prozesse in Atomen, Molek眉len und Organismen. Vielteilchen-Ph盲nomene dieser Art werden auch in Quantensimulatoren, bestehend aus Licht und ultrakalten Atomgasen, untersucht. Diese Systeme realisieren einerseits synthetische Quantenmaterie mit hochgradig regelbaren Eigenschaften, und stellen andererseits auch einen Bezug zum Forschungsschwerpunkt Materie unter extremen Bedingungen her, da f眉r diesen relevante Modellsysteme simuliert werden k枚nnen. Arbeiten zu diesem Forschungsschwerpunkt werden mm sowie am 诲耻谤肠丑驳别蹿眉丑谤迟.

Condensed matter and quantum materials

The research focus on light-driven processes in atoms, molecules and organisms spans an arc from isolated atoms to light-controlled processes in living organisms. It thus forms a bridge between the profile areas of space, time and matter and the structure and dynamics of life and links the classical disciplines of physics, chemistry and biology. Important here is qSubCellArc - quantitative Sub-Cellular Architecture (2021 - 2025), which is supported in the university's internal funding line 鈥淐luster Projects鈥�. Studies on atoms and simple molecules enable the detailed investigation of the interaction between light and matter. Light makes it possible to specifically manipulate solids such as quantum materials or molecules that occur in organisms, for example, and to understand their dynamics. Methods are being developed that make it possible to control and visualize processes in complex systems, including living organisms, using light. At the Department of Physics, this research focus is carried out by researchers from the Institute of Nuclear Physics and the Institute of Biophysics.

Research networks





Exzellenzinitiative
  • - Exploring the Universe from microscopic to macroscopic scales (HMWK, 2021 鈥� 2025)
  • - quantitative Sub-Cellular Architecture (2021 - 2025; Clusterinitiative qSubCellArc)

DFG

  • 鈥� Strong-Interaction Matter under Extreme Conditions (2. F枚rderperiode 2021 - 2025)
  • 鈥� Elastic Tuning and Response of Electronic Quantum Phases of Matter (ELASTO-Q-MAT; seit 2020)
  • - Extremes Licht f眉r die Analyse und Kontrolle von molekularer CHiralit盲t (ELCH; seit 2018)
  • - Interfacing image analysis and molecular life-science (seit 2021)
  • - Artificial Gauge Fields and Interacting Topological Phases in Ultracold Atoms (seit 2016)
  • - QUAntitative Spatio-Temporal Model-Building for Correlated Electronic Matter (QUAST; seit 2021) 
  • - Computational Connectomics (seit 2017)

BMBF

  • - Untersuchung des Quark-Gluon-Plasmas am LHC mit ALICE (2021 - 2023)
  • - Bau von Komponenten f眉r das CBM Experiment bei FAIR (2021 - 2023)
  • - Digitale Kompetenz beim Modellieren und Experimentieren im Physikunterricht, BMBF-Teilprojekt aus der Qualit盲tsoffensive Lehrerbildung (2020 - 2023)
  • -Professionelles Handeln von angehenden Physiklehrkr盲ften, BMBF-Teilprojekt aus der Qualit盲tsoffensive Lehrerbildung (2020 - 2023)
  •  - Evidenzbasierte Entwicklung praxistauglicher, inklusiver MINT-Vermittlungskonzepte f眉r die Schule(2022 鈥� 2025) (Ergebnisse f眉r Lehrkr盲fte finden sich auf: https://www.bio.uni-frankfurt.de/162697607)

EU

  • : Chemical Elements as Tracers of the Evolution of the Cosmos - Infrastructures for Nuclear Astrophysics, Prof. Dr. Ren茅 Reifarth, Institut f眉r Angewandte Physik
  • : Connecting Russian and European Measures for Large-scale Research Infrastructures, Prof. Dr. Joachim Stroth, Institut f眉r Kernphysik 

LOEWE

  • CMMS - Center for Multiscale Modelling in Life Sciences (2020 - 2023)

Sonstiges

  • : Guided Waves for Structural Health Monitoring, Dr.-Ing. Jochen Moll, Physikalisches Institut (2020 - 2023)
  • , Verbundprojekt der Telekom-Stiftung mit TU Darmstadt und IPN Kiel (2020 - 2023)
  • MaNa-Exe - Mathematisch naturwissenschaftliches Experimentieren im Primarbereich (2024 鈥� 2026)

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  • - Launching, propagation and emission of relativistic jets from binary mergers and across mass scales (Prof. Dr. Rezzolla; 2021-2026)
  • - Tunnel ionization in three-dimensional tailored light fields (Dr. S. Eckart; 2023-2028)

Outside of these research areas, research at the Institute of Didactics should also be mentioned. Here, issues relating to experimentation and modeling in physics lessons are investigated, new teaching concepts and forms of computer use are designed and evaluated and the professional competence and predictors for the professional success of prospective physics teachers are examined.