DataMat
The Helmholtz Young Investigator Group DataMat wants to turn fundamental insights about new states of matter into materials with properties that were thought to be impossible before. The group pursues a “hidden” order amongst disorder, that is, systems that seem to be random but that are homogeneous like crystals at large distances. Such systems look the same in every direction like a liquid; globally, however, they suppress density fluctuations like a crystal.