1st funding period

Project group A: Control of dissipation
The A projects jointly study: Energy dissipation channels in a common group of tunable materials using a variety of primary excitations.
They involve light, heat pulses, mechanical stimuli and molecular collisions. These different stimuli will probe dissipative microscopic degrees of freedom by a well-defined selection of the primary excitation, which can be either electrons or phonons. In addition, the bandwidth of the excitation can be changed from monochromatic to thermal or white noise.

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    The central questions are:
  • Can dissipation be controlled by tuning phonon and electron states?
  • Can dissipation channels be switched by active control?


  • Project group B: Conversion of optical excitations
    The B projects jointly study: Conversion of optically induced cooperative excitations in tunable materials.
    The projects focus on strongly correlated oxides and molecular systems which have in common that they show a strong correlation between electronic and structural degrees of freedom.
    The cooperative excitations are directed into different forms of energy: Structure changes, Changes in charge / electric state, Mechanical work.

      The central questions are:
    • What is the nature of optical excitations in correlated systems?
    • Can photon energy conversion be controlled by tunable correlations, i.e. electron-phonon, electron-electron, electron-spin?

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      Project group C: Photon and electron driven reactions at interfaces

      Project group C studies photon and electron driven reactions at interfaces. The C projects jointly study:
      Storing energy in chemical bonds in multi-step reactions at interfaces.
      They will perform real time and atomic scale studies of the involved processes.

        Central questions of the C projects are:
      • What is the nature of active states and involved intermediates and barriers?
      • Can multi-step reactions be controlled via different types of correlations and active intervention?

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