Division V - Physics and Mathematics
Division 5 comprises research, teaching, and innovation in Physics and Mathematics. Research is carried out at 21 institutes and 3 Helmholtz programmes „From Matter to Materials and Life (MML)“, „Matter and Technology (MT)“ and „Matter and the Universe (MU)“.
Research topics are Geometry, Groups and Topology, Partial Differential Equations, Stochastic Models as well as Particle and Astroparticle Physics, Solid State and Quantum Physics, Applied Physics, and Geophysics, with intensive collaboration between experiment and theory.
Research oriented teaching at the KIT Departments for Mathematics und Physics is an essential part of the teaching at almost all study courses at KIT.
The scientists of Division 5 are engaged in numerous national and international projects and research collaborations and operate the large research infrastructures GridKa, KARA, KATRIN and TLK.
From structures to models - from quanta to the universe

Researchers of KIT are working on a new qubit approach - publication in Nature Materials
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New Collaborative Research Center "4f for Future" explores and develops molecular compounds with extraordinary properties
Learn moreFor her groundbreaking research in the field of accelerator physics, Prof. Anke-Susanne Müller, director of the Institute for Beam Physics and Technology, receives this year's 100.000 Euro Research Prize of the State of Baden-Württemberg in the category basic research.
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Director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching near Munich to give public lecture at KIT on October 5
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KIT shows CERN's "Code of the Universe" as part of the EFFEKTE science series
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European Research Council funds projects of Mehdi Tahoori and Alexey Ustinov with a total of more than five million euros
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Minister-President Kretschmann visits the university confederation Eucor - The European Campus in Strasbourg
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Novel material with promising properties for quantum computers and networks discovered - KIT researchers report in Nature
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New world record: KATRIN experiment limits neutrino mass with unprecedented precision
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Der renommierte Bardeen-Preis des Jahres 2022 wird an Prof. Schmalian (KIT), Mohit Randeria, (The Ohio State University), und Peter Hirschfeld (University of Florida) verliehen. Der Preis würdigt ihre bahnbrechenden theoretischen Arbeiten, die bedeutende Erkenntnisse über die Natur der Supraleitung, deren Realisierung in stark korrelierten Systemen und über die experimentelle Untersuchung von unkonventionellen Supraleitern geliefert haben.

Reseachers of the cluster of excellence 3D Matter Made to Order show how 3-dimensional nanostructures can be printed using compact desktop devices
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Novel optical resonator is the first to track the movement of nanoparticles in space
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