by Lenka Trdina | May 27, 2025 | 2025
When an intense laser light interacts with a gas of atoms, high-order harmonics are generated. In the time domain, this radiation forms a train of extremely short light pulses, of length of the order of 100 attoseconds. These attosecond pulses enable the study of...
by Manca Žitnik | May 14, 2025 | 2025
Control loops exist in nature, in social systems and in technology. Among other things, the control loop ensures that the human body maintains its temperature, that the company achieves its goals through certain measures and that the radiator heats the room to an...
by Manca Žitnik | Apr 23, 2025 | 2025
Oriented intergrowths are common in both natural minerals and synthesized functional materials. Examples include contact, cyclic, and interpenetration twins, as well as epitaxial intergrowths of structurally related phases. In my lecture, I will present various...
by Lenka Trdina | Apr 16, 2025 | 2025
We know that physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) exists, but the question is how to best proceed to determine its particle nature. I will provide a historical perspective, covering the last few decades, on how the dominant theoretical speculations and prejudices...
by Manca Žitnik | Apr 9, 2025 | 2025
Many proteins can bind to RNA and in this way form granules in cells, whose changes are a characteristic phenomenon in many neurodegenerative diseases. I will describe our recent research showing that some proteins can attract their own mRNAs into granules when they...
by Manca Žitnik | Apr 8, 2025 | 2025
The presentation will review the fundamental functional principles of quantum information processing and provide an update on the status of the Innsbruck trapped-ion quantum computer. Using strings of trapped ions, a quantum information processor is implemented to...