News at PQM

An international research team, including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, has developed a new approach to directly access altermagnetic order by introducing a controlled distortion of the crystal lattice.

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Ultra–low-temperature transport and thermodynamic measurements down to 200 microkelvin reveal a rare, spin-triplet odd-parity superconducting state underpinned by magnetism in the heavy-fermion metal YbRh₂Si₂.
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Warm congratulations to Dr Haijing Zhang, who has been appointed to a professorship at Southeast University in Nanjing, China. more

We warmly congratulate Francisco Lieberich on winning a poster award at this year's conference “Current Trends in Strongly Correlated and Frustrated Systems” (SCF25). more

At the beginning of the 2025/26 winter semester, two of our scientists won important scientific promotions. Coincidentally, both are named Elena: Elena Hassinger and Elena Gati. We congratulate both of them on their appointments to full W3 professorships. more

Congratulations to Hilary Noad, who has received the Wilhelm Heraeus Junior Visiting Professorship for Physics 2025, awarded by the President of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation. more

An international team led by researchers at MPI-CPfS used irradiation with extremely high-energy electrons to controllably introduce atomic defects in superconducting nickelate thin films. Their systematic investigation recently published in Physical Review Letters helps to narrow down the possible answers to fundamental questions of how superconductivity emerges in these materials. more