News

Wigner crystal in a carbon nanotube

2019. July 08.

New study in Science, from collaboration of BME and HAS theorists with an experimental group at Weizmann Institute, provides evidence for the long-sought fragile electron crystal.

Coverage at the site of the Hungarian Academy of Science (in Hungarian): https://mta.hu/tudomany_hirei/kozvetlen-bizonyitekot-talaltak-az-elektro...

Coverage at index.hu (in Hungarian): https://index.hu/techtud/2019/07/08/nanocsoben_lattak_meg_a_kulonleges_k...

The publication in Science:

I. Shapir, A. Hamo, S. Pecker, C. P. Moca, Ö. Legeza, G. Zarand, S. Ilani

Imaging the electronic Wigner crystal in one dimension

Science 364, pp. 870-875 (2019).

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6443/870

Link:

https://mta.hu/tudomany_hirei/kozvetlen-bizonyitekot-talaltak-az-elektronok-alkotta-wigner-kristaly-letezesere-109874

A World of Correlations

2019. June 13.

International conference in memory of Alfréd Zawadowski, featuring an exceptional list of speakers, starts this Friday.

Link:

http://dept.physics.bme.hu/AWorldOfCorrelations

My favourite experiments

2019. June 11.

Prizewinners of high-school maths and physics contests were entertained by Károly Härtlein's lecture "My favourite experiments for future scientists".

Link:

http://www.bme.hu/hirek/20190530/Fokuszban_a_termeszettudomanyi_ismeretek_elmenyszeru_elsajatitasa

Brutal physics outdoors

2019. June 11.

At the last ScienceCamp event of the season, the audience was entertained by spectacular outdoor experimental demonstrations from Károly Härtlein and Botond Sánta.

Link:

http://www.bme.hu/hirek/20190606/Brutalisan_izgalmas_kiserletekkel_keszultek_a_Muegyetemre_latogato_gyerekeknek

Kibble-Zurek scaling

2019. June 01.

Balázs Dóra and co-authors publish a Nature Communications paper on how Kibble-Zurek scaling appears in the dynamics of non-Hermitian quantum many-body systems.

Balázs Dóra, Markus Heyl & Roderich Moessner
The Kibble-Zurek mechanism at exceptional points

Nature Communications 10, Article number: 2254 (2019)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10048-9

Link:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10048-9

Children's day at the Institute of Physics

2019. May 24.

With Károly Härtlein, in the lecture hall F29, at 5pm on Friday, May 31.

Link:

http://jedlik.phy.bme.hu/gyermeknap/

Physics Prize for András Halbritter

2019. May 13.

Head of Department of Physics receives the award of the Hungarian Academy of Science for his exceptional achievements in nanotechnology research.

Link:

http://physics.bme.hu/halbritterandrasfizikaidij2019

Interview with László Vannay

2019. May 13.

Interview with our colleague, recipient of the Prometheus Medal of the Roland Eötvös Physical Society, published in "Fizikai Szemle".

Link:

http://fizikaiszemle.hu/szemle/62

BME prizes at physics student's conference

2019. May 05.

BME physics students win two first prizes, four second prizes, and four third prizes at this year's National Scientific Students' Associations Conference.