Welcome to the Department of Physics

The Department of Physics offers bachelor's and master's study programs in physics, geophysics, meteorology and climate physics, and for the education of physics teachers. Research at the department can be divided into five major topics: Particle and Astroparticle Physics, Quantum Materials and Systems, Optics and Photonics, Geophysics, Meteorology and Climate Physics.

Interview Mühlleitner
Interview with Dean Milada Mühlleitner

In an interview entitled "What holds the world together at its core", Dean Prof. Milada Mühlleitner talks about the ideas and questions of particle physics and her enthusiasm for physics.

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Work on Diamond based Quantum memoryMarkus Breig
Quantum memory from special diamond defects

With support from the European Innovation Council's Pathfinder programme, researchers at the Physikalisches Institut are working on a "quantum transducer" that will enable a connection between spin states and polarization states.

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Readout QubitChatGPT, OpenAI
Better readout of qubits

Traveling wave parametric amplifiers are an approach for reading out qubits in quantum computers as non-invasively as possible. A Franco-German project team coordinated by KIT has achieved decisive improvements in this area.

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