Picture of the month: Light, sound, dance and quantum physics From the QuantumFrontiers Cluster of Excellence

The scientists in the QuantumFrontiers Cluster of Excellence are not only working at the limits of what can be measured, they are also exploring how to move into new territory. However, it is difficult for people to imagine what it is really like at the frontiers of light and matter. Even the objects at the heart of the research are so small and alien that no one knows exactly what they look like. In our picture of the month, we see how artists Niels Weijer and Mike O’Connor took an unusual approach to entering this world during the ‘Highlights of Physics 2024’, which took place in Hannover and Braunschweig in September. Instead of microscopes and interferometers, they used light, music and dance to enter the quantum realm.

Picture credits: Kristina Rottig/TU Braunschweig

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Cluster of Excellence: “QuantumFrontiers”

"QuantumFrontiers" is dedicated to the fundamentals of quantum and nanometrological phenomena in order to achieve precision at the limits of measurability through quantum technologies. QuantumFrontiers involves TU Braunschweig, Leibniz Universität Hannover and the National Metrology Institute of Germany. The Cluster of Excellence is part of the research focus "Metrology".