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  • Snail's pace rather than speed of light

    Physicists of the University of Bonn observe the "Klein-tunneling
    effect" with ultracold rubidium atoms
    [ Press release University of Bonn ]
    [ Focus-Article by L. Fritz ]


    Bonn physicists win inventor prize

    Researchers awarded 1. prize of university contest  'patente Erfinder' for the development of laser-like like with high efficiency.
    [ Press release University of Bonn]
    [ General-Anzeiger, 15.01.2011 ]
    [ Deutsche Universitätszeitung, Feb. 2011 ]
    [ Press release PROvendis, 12.01.2011 ]


    Photon Bose-Einstein condensate

    Bonn researchers realize a Bose-Einstein condensate of photons, a novel source of light.
    [ Press release ]
    [ News and Views article by J. Anglin ]
    [ Nature News article by Z. Merali ]
    [ BEC of light chosen to be among top 10 breakthroughs of Physics World ]
    [ FAZ, 01.12.2010 ]
    [ Süddeutsche Zeitung, 25.11.2010 ]
    [ NZZ, 01.12.2010 ]
    [ Die Welt, 25.11.2010 ]
    [ Spiegel online, 25.11.2010 ]
    [ Focus Online, 25.11.2010 ]
    [ CBS News, 24.10.2010 ]
    [ New Scientist-Article by Kate McAlpine ]
    [ Focus-Article by A. Pelster ]
    [ Search & Discovery, Physics Today by M. Wilson, 2011 year's highlights ]
    [ Bild der Wissenschaft online-Article by H. Horeis ]


    Gas of Light

    Bonn researchers realize a novel "chameleon-gas" of light.
    [ Press release ]
    [ Science Editors' Choice by Jelena Stajic, 18.06.2010 ]
    [ Bonner Generalanzeiger, 31.05.2010 ]
    [ Pro-Physik, 01.06.2010 ]
    [ Scienexx, 31.05.2010 ]

    Hamiltonian quantum ratchet

    Bonn researchers demonstrate the principle of a dissipationless quantum motor with ultracold atoms.
    [ Press release ]
    [ Focus-Article by P. Hänggi and S. Denisov ]
    [ Pro-Physik by R. Scharf, 27.11.2009 ]
    [ Deutschlandfunk-Forschung aktuell by M. Schulenburg, 29.12.2009 ]
    [ Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, 27.11.2009 ]
    [ Scinexx, 27.11.200 ]


    Laser cooling by collisional redistribution of radiation

    Demonstration of a novel cooling mechanism for macroscopic objects (ultradense gases).
    [ Press release ]
    [ News and Views-article by M. Sheik-Bahae and D. Selektskiy ]
    [ National Geographic News by B. Handwerk, 08.11.2009 ]
    [ Pro-Physik by J. O. Löfken, 03.09.2009 ]
    [ Deutschlandfunk-Forschung aktuell by M. Pollmann, 17.11.2009 ]
    [ Bonner Generalanzeiger, 08.09.2009 ]
    [ Darmstädter Echo, 03.09.2009 ]
    [ Wired science - ultrafast chilling, 02.09.2009 ]


    Descartes Nomination

    The QGates Consortium was selected as a finalist of the Descartes price of the European Union.
    [ QGates Homepage ]

    Stern-Gerlach-Experiment for slow light

    The detection of a quantised magnetic moment of electrons by Stern and Gerlach is one of the first experiments in quantum theory. But, interacting with an atomic ensemble, also photons can have such a magnetic moment. 
    [ Focus-Article by J. Kästel and M. Fleischhauer ]


    Giovanni Cennini received PhD Award

    On November 2, 2005, Giovanni Cennini (group of M. Weitz) received the PhD Award of the University of Tübingen in Physics.
    [ German press release]


    Einstein's equivalence principle tested on an atomic basis

    With an "atomic fountain", scientists from Garching and Tübingen have tested Galilei's leaning tower experiment for quantum objects.
    [ Press release ]


    Magnetic fields do not affect new atomic laser

    Tübingen physicists realize an all-optical atomlaser.
    [ Press release ]













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