Cluster of ExcellenceQuantum Universe

It is quite common for research equipment to end up in display cases and exhibition rooms: discarded prototypes, particularly attractive particle detectors or innovative new developments help to explain science and are technological witnesses to the times. However, it is rather rare for exhibits to be dusted off and moved...

Do we bathe in dark matter? How do we tap into the mysteries of a 5,000-year-old letter? Is climate protection a private matter or a national goal? And does the language I use shape my identity? At "Science on Tap", researchers from the University of Hamburg and DESY answer fascinating and urgent questions.

The postulation of an axion poses an elegant solution to the strong CP problem of the Standard Model. The construction of such a solution could be jeopardized by new sources of CP violation at high energies. Using an effective field theory approach to describe these new sources of CP violation, a group of Quantum Universe...

On 22 May 2025, the German Research Foundation (DFG) endorsed the tremendous work carried out in the University of Hamburg’s clusters of excellence, announcing that all four projects would continue to receive funding during the next funding period. The research alliances cover a range of topics, from astronomy to the...

The University of Hamburg was extremely successful in the framework of the Excellence Strategy, securing funding for the 4 existing clusters of excellence in the next funding round from January 2026. The University has thus consolidated its top position among the leading group of German research universities. With this...

The Quantum Universe Cluster of Excellence at the University of Hamburg in collaboration with the DESY research center will receive funding for another seven years. The German Research Foundation (DFG) and the German Science and Humanities Council (Wissenschaftsrat, WR) announced the positive decision on further funding for...

The call for applications for the dynaMENT Mentoring is now open. The program invites junior scientists of all gender identities who feel addressed by the program title dynaMENT Mentoring for Women in Natural Sciences to hand in their applications before 7 July.

What do you do when you would like to play the newest computer game on your old computer, but the game is too demanding for your hardware? You own the previous version of the game, and it was fun, but over the years it has grown long in the tooth and is outdated. If you cannot afford to buy a new computer, you may not be...

Chat-GPT is great at coming up with birthday card greetings, summarizing complicated texts, or brainstorming ideas for the name of your new dog. But can it do physics? In a recent paper, researchers of the cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe explored the idea behind models like Chat-GPT and applied it to particle...