Wigner crystal on qubit.hu
2021. September 11.
Press coverage of recent breakthrough experiments on Hungarian science portal qubit.hu. Featuring theoretical physicist and head of BME Institute of Physics, Gergely Zaránd.
News
Wigner crystal, published in Nature
2021. August 04.
Harvard experimentalists discovered a coupled Wigner crystal in bilayer nanostructures, with important theory contribution from our Institute of Physics.
You Zhou, Jiho Sung, Elise Brutschea, Ilya Esterlis, Yao Wang, Giovanni Scuri, Ryan J. Gelly, Hoseok Heo, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Gergely Zaránd, Mikhail D. Lukin, Philip Kim, Eugene Demler & Hongkun Park
Bilayer Wigner crystals in a transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructure
Nature 595, 48 (2021)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03560-w
OTKA Grants for the Institute of Physics
2021. August 03.
Szabolcs Csonka, Márton Kormos, and Ferenc Simon were awarded the OTKA Research Grant of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office. The total sum is close to 150 million HUF.
Momentum Grant for Péter Makk
2021. July 05.
Péter Makk, associate professor at the Institute of Physics and the Department of Physics, has won the Momentum Research Grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The research theme of the new group is Controlling synthetic correlated phases in van der Waals heterostructures.
Announcement at the website of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA): https://mta.hu/mta_hirei/tizenot-nyertes-az-mta-lendulet-programjanak-id...
Quantum Lab launched
2021. June 24.
Research at the newly established Quantum Information National Laboratory (QNL) was officially launched on June 2, 2021. Head of consortium Péter Domokos (Wigner Research Centre for Physics) and project leaders of the consortium including Gergely Zaránd, head of the BME Institute of Physics, shared recent progress and the activities planned for the coming years.
More details:
- News item at the QNL website: https://qi.nemzetilabor.hu/news/inaugural-conference-quantum-information...
- Programme of the conference on the QNL website, in Hungarian: https://qi.nemzetilabor.hu/hu/esemenyek/kvantuminformatikai-nemzeti-labo...
- Quantum research at BME Insitute of Physics introduced at BME's news portal, in Hungarian: https://www.bme.hu/hirek/20210512/A_BME_is_aktiv_reszese_lehet_a_masodik...
Máté Vigh receives Excellent Lecturer Award
2021. June 15.
Máté Vigh, assistant professor at BME Institute of Physics, receives the Excellent Lecturer Award of the university, based on student evaluations. Congratulations!
Honorary doctorate for László Forró
2021. June 10.
László Forró (EPFL), external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, one of the most prominent solid-state physicist of Hungarian origin, received the honorary doctorate of BME.
Electrodynamics of superconductors
2021. June 08.
Popular article on the high-frequency electrodynamics of superconductors, published in "Fizikai Szemle", from members of the Spintronics and Spin Spectroscopy Research Group.
The research group: https://dept.physics.bme.hu/SpinSpectroscopy
2021 May issue of "Fizikai Szemle" (in Hungarian): http://fizikaiszemle.hu/szemle/93
Article (pdf, in Hungarian): http://fizikaiszemle.hu/uploads/2021/05/fizszem-202105-csosz-simon_13_14...
Noise diagnostics of nanostructures
2021. May 28.
New experimental results of the atomic and molecular electronics research group on graphene nanostructures. Published in npj 2D Materials and Applications.
László Pósa, Zoltán Balogh, Dávid Krisztián, Péter Balázs, Botond Sánta, Roman Furrer, Miklós Csontos & András Halbritter
Noise diagnostics of graphene interconnects for atomic-scale electronics
npj 2D Materials and Applications volume 5, Article number: 57 (2021)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41699-021-00237-w
Group website: https://nanoelectronics.physics.bme.hu/Atomic_and_molecular_electronics
BME prizes at physics students' conference
2021. May 17.
BME physics students win three first prizes, two second prizes, and a third prize, at this year's National Scientific Students' Associations Conference. Results in pdf, in Hungarian.
