Welcome to the Huber group at the University of Regensburg!
Many of the fundamental laws and unexpected phenomena in condensed matter physics are caused by extremely fast dynamics of electrons and ions on the femtosecond time (1 fs = 10-15 s) and terahertz frequency scale (1 THz = 1012 Hz). Unravelling such ultrafast processes is the main interest of our research. We develop next-generation, high-intensity femtosecond laser sources and THz technology, and employ them to explore novel femtophysics.
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2024-03-14
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We have established ultrafast scanning tunnelling spectroscopy on the femtosecond time, atomic length and milli-electron-volt energy scale. This has allowed us to directly resolve the energy shift of a single atomic defect in a monolayer of tungsten diselenide due to drum-like phonon vibrations.
The results obtained in a close collaboration with the groups of Jascha Repp (University of Regensburg) and Jan Wilhelm (University of Regensburg) have appeared in Nature Photonics....
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2024-02-28
In close collaboration with the groups of Dominique Bougeard (UR) and Christoph Lange (TU Dortmund), we were able to reach record-breaking, deep-strong light-matter coupling with a coupling strength of up to 3.19. This, for the first time, creates vacuum ground state populations exceeding 1 virtual excitation quantum.
The results have been published in Nature Communications....
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2024-02-09
Our lecture on Light Matter Interaction was awarded with the Best Lecture Award of the Faculty of Physics.
Image (from left to right): Manuel Meierhofer, Rupert Huber, Simon Maier, Marlene Liebich
Missing: Markus Huber...
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2023-11-08
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The new Graduate Research Training Group 2905 - "Ultrafast nanoscopy - from single particle dynamics to cooperative processes" - will be funded for five years.
The program will start April 2024 and allows graduate researchers to unveil the internal dynamics of the elementary building blocks of matter. Novel concepts of nanovideography will be pioneered to resolve atomic-scale dynamics and to trace ensuing cooperative processes in systems of increasing complexity directly in ultraslow-motion pictures. The discoveries could find applications in future nano- and optoelectronics, quantum technologies and green technologies.
Press release (UR) in German and English.
Press release (idw) in German and English....
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Our group regularly receives funding from national and international research agencies. Among them are:
The German Science Foundation
with funding for SFB 1277, as well as smaller grants (HU1598) and major instrumentation
The European Research Council
through several grants, including ERC grant 101071259 (Orbital Cinema), ERC grant 305003 (QUANTUMsubCYCLE) and ERC grant 681379 (SPRINT)
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
with several current and past fellowships, including funding for N. Nilforoushan
The German Federal Republic and the Free State of Bavaria
funding the Regensburg Center for Ultrafast Nanoscopy according to Art. 91b Abs. 1 Satz 1 GG
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