The Management Team announced that they have successfully fulfilled all reporting requirements for the ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET). The final report for the Centre of Excellence has been submitted, and the legacy website is now live. More details – follow the link.
The new Honours research projects are proposed
The new research projects are proposed for Honours degree students at the School of Physics, UNSW in 2025. The title of the first research project is “A new method of axion-like dark matter detection”. The aim of the project is to develop the theory for a novel promising method of dark matter detection. The method is based on optic fibers. To some extent the idea of the method is similar to the LIGO detection of gravitational waves.
The title of the second research project is "Excitons in Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers in strong electric and magnetic fields." TMD excitons are similar to two-dimensional hydrogen atoms. This is a very hot topic of research because of possible applications. There are recent intriguing experimental results on behaviour of excitons in strong electric fields. The aim of the project is to develop the theory of TMD excitons in strong fields.
Congratulations to Zeb Krix with prestigious award!
Congratulations to Zeb Krix for getting a postdoctoral research position at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Zeb was awarded prestigious Georg H. Endress Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue his research. Wishes of success and good luck!
Jack Engdahl attended the CMQM 2024 Conference in Scotland
Jack Engdahl presented a talk “Driving Viscous Hydrodynamics in Bulk Electron Flow in Graphene Using Micromagnets” at the Conference on The Condensed Matter and Quantum Materials (CMQM 2024). The meeting covers a wide range of topics and emerging fields, ranging from solid state and materials physics to many-body effects and quantum simulation. The conference was held in the University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK from July 2 – 5, 2024.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2024
May your life be happy, amazing and interesting, filled with sunshine and smiles, pleasant surprises and jokes, kindness, love and music, interesting books. With all our hearts we wish you joy, laughter, interesting impressions, wonderful dreams, wonderful unforgettable travels, good health and much more.
The time of 2023 is going away, to the past. We hear tender and sad sounds of bells, saying good bye to 2023. We hope that your life in 2024 will be full of good interesting events and meetings with lovely kind people.
The 46th Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting, Wagga 2024
The 46th Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting will be held from Tuesday 6th – Friday 9th, February 2024 at sunny Wagga Wagga, Charles Sturt University site. The Organising Committee look forward to welcoming all participants there! Recent advances in condensed matter research from around Australia and New Zealand will be discussed at the meeting. For all information, visit the webpage: https://aip.org.au/CMM-Conference.
Congratulations on Zeb Krix’s achievement!
Zeb Krix has been awarded a Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Theses.
The Dean’s Award recognises high quality PhD theses produced at UNSW. The Dean’s Award goes to Zeb Krix who had submitted a thesis “Controlling interaction effects in artificial crystals” that received outstanding and excellent levels of achievement for all examination criteria, and, in the opinion of both examiners, is in the top 10% of PhD theses examined.
Welcome to the Gordon Godfrey 2023 Workshop
The organising committee welcomes participants of the Gordon Godfrey 2023 Workshop. The workshop will be held at the School of Physics, UNSW, on 20 - 24 November 2023. The program includes the variety of topics: Spins/pseudospins, magnetism and correlations in low dimensional systems and nanostructures; Topological physics and materials; Phase transitions, Superconductivity, Bose condensation; Correlations and active defects in solids; Approaches for neuromorphic technologies. The speakers from the Netherlands, Italy, Slovenia, Singapore, the USA, Israel and Australia will present the latest discoveries and results. Research students, postdocs, research associates are encouraged actively to participate.
Congratulations to Dr. Zeb Krix
Zeb Krix is awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. His thesis "Controlling interaction effects in artificial crystals" got outstanding reports and marks. Well done and well deserved.
FLEET’s annual workshop, Lorne, 3 – 7 July 2023
This year FLEET’s annual workshop was held at Mantra Lorne, southwest of Melbourne along the Great Ocean Road. It was a great opportunity to gather together and share research progress. The program was concentrated around the new scientific fields of topological electronics, atomically thin materials, exciton condensates, and non-equilibrium phenomena. Jack and Zeb presented their talks and posters:
Jack Engdahl, Dramatic increase of viscous effects in magnetohydrodynamics in graphene (poster)
Zeb Krix, New kind of magnetic oscillation in artificial crystals (poster)
Jack Engdahl, Bandgap and exciton energy renormalization in doped TMD (talk)
