Press releases 2020

Dort, wo üblicherweise gefräst, gespant und gebohrt wird, hat sich für den 17. März 2020 hoher Besuch zum Gespräch angekündigt. In der „Woche der beruflichen Bildung“ (vom 17.-24. März) schaut Niedersachsens Kultusminister Grant Hendrik Tonne auch in der Physikalisch-Technischen Bundesanstalt (PTB) vorbei, um sich hier ganz gezielt über die Ausbildung der PTB zu informieren und um mit...

Scientists from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK) have carried out pioneering optical measurements of highly charged ions with unprecedented precision. To do this, they isolated a single Ar^{13 +} ion from an extremely hot plasma and brought it practically to rest inside an ion trap together with a laser-cooled, singly charged ion....

The number is gigantic: Within the scope of medical diagnostics, about 100 million examinations are carried out with “magnetic resonance imaging” (MRI) every year – and every scanner worldwide uses technology that was developed by Jens Frahm’s team in Göttingen. The physicist, who is the head of the Biomedical NMR research group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, was mainly...

A functional quantum computer is one of the most intriguing promises of quantum technology. With significantly increased computing power, quantum computers will be able to solve tasks that conventional computers cannot handle, such as understanding and inventing new materials or pharmaceuticals as well as testing the limits of cryptographic techniques. In order to reduce error rates and provide...