Finite Systems (MPI-PKS)

• Dynamics of ultra-cold Rydberg gases and plasmas (Rost)
• Photo processes in few electron quantum dots (Rost)
• Attosecond control of nano-plasmas (Rost/Saalmann)
• Atomic many-body systems in strong laser fields (Rost/Saalmann)
• Coherent diffractive imaging (Rost/Saalmann)

Quantum Aggregates (MPI-PKS)

• Dynamics of a nanoscale rotor driven by single-electron tunneling (Eisfeld)
• Charge shuttles (Eisfeld)
• Organic molecules on dielectric surfaces (Eisfeld)
• QM/MM description of light harvesting systems (Eisfeld)
• Non-linear spectroscopy (Eisfeld)

Institute for Theoretical Physics (TUD)

• Chaotic eigenfunctions extending into regular regions (Ketzmerick)
• Search for quantum signatures of Levy walks (Ketzmerick)
• Theoretical predictions for atom-optic experiments on mixed systems (Ketzmerick)
• Inelastic tunneling through magnetic molecules (Timm)
• Transport theory for nanoscopic systems beyond rate equations (Timm)
• Surface states of disordered topological insulators (Vojta)
• Nuclear-spin decoherence and limits to quantum criticality (Vojta)
• Initial value representation of time-dependent semiclassical quantum dynamics (Großmann)
• Semiclassical description of many particle systems and nonclassical effects like tunneling and diffraction (Großmann)
• Inelastic transport of electrons through single molecules (Großmann)

Materials Science and Nanotechnology (TUD)

• Theoretical study of STM conduction experiments on organic molecules (Cuniberti)
• Graphene spintronics: spin-dependent transport in graphene nanoribbons (Cuniberti)
• Switching at the molecular scale: theoretical study of molecular switches via density-functional theory (Cuniberti)
• Charge transport and dynamics in DNA (Cuniberti)

Institute for Scientific Computing (TUD)

• Large scale orbital-free DFT simulation (Voigt)
• Classical dynamic density functional theory and phase field crystal modeling of material defects (Voigt)
• Spherical crystallography - studying grain boundary scars and other topological defects (Voigt)
• Mesoscopic modeling of colloidal fluids (Voigt)
• Efficient numerical analysis of classical transport (Padberg-Gehle)
• Transfer operator methods for studying driven dynamical systems (Padberg-Gehle)
• Parallel algorithms for time-dependent processes (Padberg-Gehle)

Chemical Metals Science (MPI-CPfS)

• Synthesis and chemical physics of new classes of intermetallic compounds (Grin)
• Analysis of the chemical bonding in the intermetallic compounds (Grin)

Institute for Physics (TUC)

• Simulation of multifractal electrons in disordered systems (Schreiber)
• Random matrix theory for electronic states in quasicrystals (Schreiber)

Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (Prague)

• Molecular dynamics simulations of interactions of ions with hydrated proteins (Jungwirth)
• Molecular simulations of hydrated phospholipid membranes (Jungwirth)
• Molecular dynamics simulations of surface properties and phase transitions in water and aqueous solutions (Jungwirth)

Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research (Wrocław)

• Interplay of magnetism and superconductivity in heavy-fermion systems - competition, coexistence, coupling
• Novel quantum critical phenomena and unconventional metallic properties
• Exotic Kondo effects in crystalline solids
• Layered superconductors, superfluid to Mott insulator transtition
• Quantum dissipation in Josephson junction arrays.
• Nanometric materials for photonics and spintronics
• Downconversion of high energy radiation in wide band-gap materials
• Critical behaviour of weakly coupled fermion and spin chains