Robert Weis

Kirchhoff Institute for Physics

The Kirchhoff Institute for Physics (KIP) is named after a prominent physicist of the 19th Century: Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, who worked in Heidelberg for 21 years. His well-known lectures on experimental and theoretical physics attracted many students. Kirchhoff's ground-breaking research was extraordinarily diverse, spanning electrical, magnetic, optical, elastic, hydrodynamic and thermal processes. His laws for electrical circuits are well-known. At the time he was in Heidelberg, in conjunction with Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, he discovered spectral analysis and its application to solar radiation. In this way, Kirchhoff laid the foundation for modern astrophysics, as well as formulating the laws of thermal radiation, which played a key role in the discovery of quantum physics. The KIP aims to continue in this tradition of diverse scientific research and education.

Physikalisches Kolloquium

11. July 2025 5:00 pm  Advancing Quantum Information Processing with Superconducting Circuits

Prof. Dr. Stefan Filipp, Walther-Meißner-Institut und TU München,Quantum computers have the potential to solve complex problems efficiently. However, to unleash their full potential, complex quantum systems have to be manufactured, manipulated and measured with unprecedented accuracy and precision.more...

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Monday, 7th of July Special CQD (funded by STRUCTURES) will be given by Prof. Michal P. Heller(Ghent University)

Next Special CQD (funded by STRUCTURES) will be given by Prof. Michal P. Heller(Ghent University)

 

When: Monday, 7th of July

Time:  2:30 pm

Where: KIP, INF 227, SB2

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A new flower in the magnetic garden

Our study on pentagonal-bipyramildal coordinated molecules which remind us on a beautiful flower led to another sommer-themed publication in Chemistry - A European Journal.

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CQD Colloquium (funded by STRUCTURES) next Wednesday, 9th of July, by Prof. Sylvain Nascimbene,Paris

Next CQD Colloquium (funded by Structures) will be given by Dr. Sylvain Nascimbene, École Normale Supérieure de Paris on: Exploring quantum Hall physics with ultracold dysprosium atoms

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