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Three new research grants

2025. November 07.

Sándor Bordács, András Halbritter, and Gergely Zaránd were awarded the Advanced_25 grants to fund their research at the BME Institute of Physics. Congratulations!

 

Research topics and funding amounts:

  • Sándor Bordács: Magnetic field control of topology: a magneto-optical study, 150 million HUF,
  • András Halbritter: Ultrafast information processing with memristive devices, 150 million HUF,
  • Gergely Attila Zaránd: Design and application of advanced quantum metrology and quantum optimisation methods, 120 million HUF.

 

(nkfh.gov.hu)

 

Link: 
https://nkfih.gov.hu/palyazoknak/nkfi-alap/tamogatott-projektek-advanced-25

Quantum Technology Conference in Budapest

2025. October 06.

QTech-Budapest: an international conference in quantum technology that took place in September, co-organized by BME Institute of Physics researchers at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
 
The event, held at the headquarters of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, was attended by more than 300 researchers from all over the world. The conference was organized partly as a celebration of the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Academy and the 100th anniversary of the birth of quantum mechanics. Each arly morning plenary lecture provided a broad overview of a key subfield of ​​quantum technology. Following these, conference talks were organized into four parallel workshops, providing insight into the explosive advancement of quantum technology in recent years, promoted by public research programs as well as an increasing amount of private investment.
 
Website of the conference: https://www.qtech-budapest.eu/
Plenary talks on YouTube: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4.
 
Link: 
https://www.qtech-budapest.eu/

Weyl semimetals in magnetic field

2025. September 15.

In collaboration with German and Japanese researchers, BME Institute of Physics researchers investigated topological magnets using magneto-optical spectroscopy. They determined the magnetic field dependence of the low-energy excitations of one of the best-known magnetic Weyl semimetals, Co3Sn2S2. By comparing their experimental results with ab initio calculations, they demonstrated that by varying the direction of magnetization, the characteristic degeneracies of the electronic band structure can be controlled, for example, the number of Weyl points can be tuned, and the appearance of line-like degeneracies (nodal loops) can be triggered.

 

F. Schilberth, M.-C. Jiang, F. Le Mardelé, L. B. Papp, I. Mohelsky, M. A. Kassem, Y. Tabata, T. Waki, H. Nakamura, G.-Y. Guo, M. Orlita, R. Arita, I. Kézsmárki & S. Bordács
Generation of a nodal line and Weyl points by magnetization reorientation in Co3Sn2S2
npj Quantum Materials 10, 67 (2025)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41535-025-00785-0

 

Link: 
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41535-025-00785-0

New corresponding members of the Academy

2025. May 18.

BME physicists Ferenc Simon and Levente Tapasztó has been elected as corresponding members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS).

 

Ferenc Simon is the professor at BME Institute of Physics. His fous are is condensed-matter physics, spectroscopy, and quantum technology. He has developed a range of novel experimental setups, and applied those for medical and semiconductor research. Ferenc has received an ERC Starting Grant as well as a Momentum Grant from the HAS.

 
Levente Tapasztó is the scientific advisor of the HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research, and the research professor of BME Faculty of Natural Sciences. He develops novel nanotechnology methods to tune the properties of graphene and other two-dimensional materials. He has received international and Hungarian excellence research grants, such as a Momentum Grant (2014) and an ERC Starting Grant (2016). His laboratory hosts the scanning tunneling microscope experiment used in the lab training of BME physics students.
 
Congratulations!
 
 
Link: 
https://www.bme.hu/hirek/250507/mta-kozgyules-akademikus-tagok-bme

Academy Award for András Halbritter

2025. May 12.

András Halbritter, professor and deputy head of BME Institute of Physics receives the Academy Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The recognition was awarded for Prof. Halbritter's dedicated and wide-ranging activities, as well as outstanding achievements, in research, education, outreach, as well as management and administration. Congratulations!
 
 
Link: 
https://www.bme.hu/hirek/250509/mta-akademiai-dij-halbritter-andras-bme-ttk

APS Outstanding Referee: Balázs Dóra

2025. April 01.

Balázs Dóra, professor of BME's Department of Theoretical Physics, receives the Outstanding Referee honor from the American Physical Society.

 

Instituted in 2008, the Outstanding Referee program expresses appreciation for the essential work that anonymous peer reviewers do for APS's journals. This year, 160 of the cca. 50.000 active reviewers were selected and and honored as Outstanding Referees.

Congratulations, Balázs!

 

APS Outstanding Referee: https://journals.aps.org/OutstandingReferees

 

Web page of Balázs Dóra: https://dtp.physics.bme.hu/Dora_Balazs?language=en

 

Link: 
https://journals.aps.org/OutstandingReferees

Introducing the academy candidates in physics

2025. March 13.

Ferenc Simon, Gábor Takács, and Levente Tapasztó, candidates for membership of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, publish outreach articles in a special issue of Fizikai Szemle. All thre articles (in Hungarian) are freely available from the website of the March issue of Fizikai Szemle.

 

Ferenc Simon (professor, BME Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute of Physics, Department of Physics)
Spintronics: Introduction and applications

 

Gábor Takács (professor, head of institute, BME Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute of Physics, Department of Theoretical Physics)
Do closed quantum systems achieve balance? – When the “light cone” closes

 

Levente Tapasztó (scientific advisor, HUN-REN EK; research professor, BME Faculty of Natural Sciences)
Light trapped in graphene

 

Link: 
https://fizikaiszemle.elft.hu/szemle/138

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