|
|
|
|
|
The association MaNEP started well into this year. Its first
key-event in 2019, the bi-annual Winter School in Saas Fee was fully
booked following a strong increase in the number of applicants. Focusing
on symmetry and topology, its lectures reviewed central concepts of
today’s condensed matter physics and received excellent feed-back.
|
|
|
|
Many thanks to the organizers, the speakers and to Johan Chang and his team who put together an outstanding program.
|
Training and supporting the next generation of scientists
working on electronic materials has always been a priority for MaNEP.
Soon five students will start their MaNEP-sponsored summer internship, a
first stepping stone for a career in material science. Let me also draw
your attention to the MaNEP session on correlations and topology in
quantum matter at the Joint Annual Meeting of the Swiss Physical Society
in Zurich (August 26-29) organized by Marta Gibert and Titus Neupert.
MaNEP further supports a focus session at the SPS annual meeting on
Skyrmions in magnetic materials. Support for workshops or such sessions
is available from MaNEP with minimal bureaucracy. Do not hesitate to
contact the steering committee if you have an idea for an event that is
of interest to the MaNEP community.
|
|
This newsletter also contains an intriguing perspective on
applied superconductivity, a field with exciting new developments. I
also thank Ana Akrap from the University of Fribourg for sharing her
experiences in getting a new research group off the ground.
|
I look forward to seeing you at the SPS annual meeting and wish you all a stimulating and productive summer.
|
|
|
|
What's new?
|
|
|
Congratulations to
Jennifer Fowlie
|
|
Each year the Springer Thesis prize is awarded to a PhD work
in order to recognise its scientific impact. This year, the 2018 prize
in the field of physics was received by Jennifer Fowlie …
|
|
8th MaNEP winter school
in Saas Fee
|
|
On the 3rd week of January 2019, 67 participants forming a
broad distribution from the Swiss universities, together with a fair 20%
of foreign attendees, were welcomed by the Zurbriggen family in Saas
Fee for the 8th MaNEP winter school …
|
|
|
|
|
|
Scientific perspective
|
Present and future applications of superconductivity:
Particle accelerators, medical applications and beyond
|
|
|
By Prof. Carmine Senatore, UNIGE and Prof. Leonid Rivkin, PSI
|
Since the discovery of superconductivity in 1911, this
phenomenon was greeted with high hopes for groundbreaking applications.
However, scientists had to face many difficulties to develop these
materials in a useful conductor form and yet only six – one alloy, two
intermetallic compounds and three ceramic oxides – are available
commercially. After more than a century, superconducting technologies
are a proven business worldwide, contributing over 7 BCHF per year to
medical and high energy physics industries, but there is a potential
for...
|
|
|
|
Scientific highlights
|
Parental Control of Mott-Insulating La2CuO4
|
|
|
|
by Johan Chang, University of Zürich
|
Exposed to pressure, the lattice parameters of a material
generally shrink. In turn, the electronic nearest neighbour hopping
integral t increases, due to larger orbital overlap. In a Mott insulator
this enhancement can trigger a bandwidth-controlled insulator-to-metal
transition. Indeed, the ratio, U/t, of the electron-electron (Coulomb)
interaction …
|
|
|
|
High-Resolution
Photoemission on Sr2RuO4 Reveals Correlation-Enhanced Effective
Spin-Orbit Coupling and Dominantly Local Self-Energies
|
|
|
|
by Anna Tamai, University of Geneva
|
Since the seminal work of Landau in the 1950’s, the
low-temperature metallic state of materials is generally assumed to be
well understood. Yet, when it comes to oxides, even good metals such as
the strontium ruthenates continue to hold surprises. Landau introduced
the concept of …
|
|
|
|
Highlights publications
|
|
Discover more MaNEP Network's research and innovations trough other publication highlights.
|
|
|
|
Portrait
|
Talk with Ana Akrap
MaNEP Member, Professor at the University of Fribourg
|
|
Please tell us about your professional background and your main research interests ?
I’m
an experimental condensed matter physicist. I study the interaction of
light and matter, in order to understand and uncover new and exciting
physics in materials both old and new. The main focus of my research are
special kinds of materials in which electrons effectively become
very...
|
|
|
|
Upcoming events
|
17th International Summer School on Crystal Growth (ISSCG17)
July 21 - 26, 2019, Grady, Colorado, USA
|
|
19th International Conference on Crystal Growth and Epitaxy (ICCGE19)
July 28 - August 2, 2019, Keystone, Colorado, USA
|
|
SPS Joint Annual Meeting
August 26 - 30, 2019, University of Zürich
|
|
Bose-Einstein Condensation 2019
September 7 - 13, 2019, Sant Feliu de Guixols
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(Photo credit: PSI/Mahir Dzambegovic; Volker Graf; CERN; UNIGE; L. Windels/UNIGE)
|
|
|
|
MaNEP Switzerland Network
|
|
24, quai Ernest-Ansermet - 1211 Geneva 4
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
