The whirring of measuring devices, the clicking of switches, the hissing of cooling systems - research laboratories have their own sound. Dresden musician Konrad Kuechenmeister toured the quantum research laboratories in Dresden and Würzburg and recorded these sounds. Using a looper, a device that plays pieces of music in loops, he mixed them into a soundtrack. Handmade loop music full of quantum vibes. It can be heard in a video that shows what researchers at the Technical University of Dresden and the University of Würzburg are working on.
The sound accompanies a new start. The Cluster of Excellence ctd.qmat has expanded its name and has a new research focus. The "d" in the name now stands for dynamics. "Quantum dynamics is the key to understanding the phenomena discovered in the first funding period in greater depth, controlling them in a targeted manner and being able to use them technologically," says Matthias Vojta. He is Professor of Theoretical Solid State Physics at TU Dresden and heads the cluster together with Ralph Claessen from the University of Würzburg.
