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Physicists discover a new kind of strange metal more

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Professor Frank Steglich is awarded the Fritz London Memorial Prize. more

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The research teams of Hao Tjeng from the MPI-CPfS, Andrea Severing from the University of Cologne, Antoine Maignan from CRISMAT Laboratory Caen, and Maurits Haverkort from the University of Heidelberg have succeeded in determining the electronic orbital that is responsible for the Ising magnetism in Ca₃Co₂O₆. A direct image of the donut-shaped orbital has been made using the new Max Planck end-station at German Electron Synchrotron DESY in Hamburg. more

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A collaboration between our Institute and the group of Stuart Brown at the University of California Los Angeles has discovered that one of the foundational experiments performed on the famous superconductor Sr₂RuO₄ gave an incorrect result.  This realisation both solves an outstanding experimental puzzle and reinvigorates this field of research. more

Natalia Gloriozova was awarded the best poster prize at the 17^th European Conference on Solid State Chemistry (ECSSC) in Lille, France. more

Imagine a world in which electricity could flow through the grid without any losses or where all the data in the world could be stored in the cloud without the need for power stations.  This seems unimaginable but a path towards such a dream has opened with the discovery of a new family of materials with magical properties. more