Research Highlights16 March 2026|Research HighlightSurface diagrams for quantum symmetriesPhoto: Max Demirdilek (2026)Symmetries are transformations that leave a physical system invariant and are thus essential for its analysis. A certain class of quantum field...11 March 2026|Research HighlightLittle Red DotPhoto: James Webb Space Telescope and UHH/MIN/SchindlerResearchers from the University of Hamburg, including Excellence Cluster Quantum Universe Key Researcher Dr. Jan-Torge Schindler, have discovered a...3 December 2025|Research HighlightA New Source for Axion Dark Matter ProductionPhoto: C. Eröncel, Y. Gouttenoire, R. Sato, G. Servant, and P. SimakachornIn a new publication in Physical Review Letters, Géraldine Servant and collaborators present a novel mechanism for scalar particle production in the...24 October 2025|Research HighlightCMS experiment observes rare top quark interactionPhoto: CMS CollaborationThe CMS experiment reports the first observation of a top quark produced together with a W and a Z boson. A team led by Quantum Universe key...1 October 2025|Research HighlightThe Extreme Corners of Quantum GravityPhoto: van Beest, Calderón-Infante, Mirfendereski, Valenzuela (2022)Combining Quantum Mechanics and gravity into one theory is the theoretical challenge of the twenty-first century. The "Swampland Programme" aims to...30 September 2025|Research Highlight"Polarization Pairs" bring clarityPhoto: Craig LawrieA new framework introduces so-called polarization pairs as a datum necessary to have well-defined quantum field theories that involve self-dual gauge...28 August 2025|Research HighlightCMS experiment measures the mass of the W boson from hadronsPhoto: CMS CollaborationHadrons are particles made of quarks and gluons, and hundreds of them are produced in each particle collision at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). A...20 August 2025|Research HighlightA mysterious cloud near the Milky Way's black hole is being torn apartPhoto: Wasif ShaqilIn a recent paper published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe have investigated a...9 July 2025|Research HighlightBeyond the backgroundPhoto: Anna Malin LemkeIn the summer of 2023, several pulsar timing array collaborations found the first evidence for the existence of a gravitational wave background, a...26 June 2025|Research HighlightGenerative machine learning tools for collider simulationPhoto: DESYDetectors at future colliders promise beautiful highly-granular images of particle collisions. To make use of this data, simulating a vast number of...Show all news
