Tommy Li's PhD Thesis "Spin-orbit coupling and topological phase transitions in semiconductor heterostructures" contains a wealth of highly original results and merits the award of the PhD degree. Well done, Tommy!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
All the best to everyone, health, success, love and peace, music and travel, smiles and fine food, interesting books and fireworks.
Photo courtesy of Oleg Jnr Sushkov, Iceland, September 2016.
Group members attendance at the 13th Asia Pacific Physics Conference in Brisbane
Dima Miserev and Samuel Bladwell are presenting their research works at the joint 13th Asia Pacific Physics Conference and 22nd Australian Institute of Physics Congress in Brisbane (4 - 8 December 2016).
Dima has a poster and will present a work "In-plane g-factor anisotropy in hole type quantum point contacts" on 5th of December. Samuel has a poster and will present a work "Magnetic focusing with strong spin orbit interactions" on 6th of December.
Congratulation to Tommy Li
Congratulation to Tommy Li - his paper on Chern insulating state has just appeared in Physical Review B : Li, Tommy and Sushkov, Oleg P. (2016) Chern insulating state in laterally patterned semiconductor heterostructures. Phys. Rev. B 94, 155311.
New ARC Centre of Excellence for Science
Excellent news and a great win for the School of Physics at UNSW: the academics and PhD students from the School of Physics will be involved in the new ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies. The Centre will be led by Professor Michael Fuhrer and will be established at the Monash University.
The Centre aims to develop the scientific foundation for new electronics technologies. Decreasing energy use is a major societal challenge. The Centre aims to meet that challenge by realising fundamentally new types of electronic conduction without resistance in solid-state systems at room temperature. Novel resistance-free electronic phenomena at room temperature are expected to form the basis of integrated electronics technology with ultra-low energy consumption.
For more information - see Media release issued by the ARC on 8th of September 2016.
Theoretical Physics Chief investigators Oleg Sushkov and Dimi Culcer with PhD students and postdocs.
Congratulations to Yaroslav Kharkov
Congratulations to Yaroslav Kharkov on publishing "The amplitudes and the structure of the charge density wave in YBCO" in Scientific Reports, 6, 34551 (2016). We are happy to share a full-text version of our paper by using the link.
The Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting Wagga Wagga 2017
The annual Condensed Matter and Materials meeting will be held at Charles Stuart University Wagga Wagga from 31st of January till 3rd of February 2017. The conference topics cover a broad range in condensed matter physics and materials science. Particular emphasis will be on novel multifunctional properties, solid-state magnetism and superconductivity, 2D quantum materials, and other recent developments in condensed matter and materials research.
Abstract submission opened from Monday, 12th of September 2016. For more details about the meeting check the website http://www.wagga2017.unsw.edu.au/
Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting in 2014
Merry Christmas and Happy New 2016 Year
Hope that this year was successful for you and next year will be happy, wonderful and enjoyable with a lot of fun, smiles, joy, peace and love.
Christmas celebration with families in Royal National Park, Sydney 7 years ago (20th of December 2008).
Gordon Godfrey Workshop on Spins and Strong Electron Correlations 2015
Gordon Godfrey Workshop on Spins and Strong Electron Correlations 2015 has been very successful and well attended.
Important aspect of the workshop was the opportunity for the participants to exchange interesting ideas. Young PhD students and researchers got acquainted with each other not only through hot discussions in the conference room but also through chatting. Special one day, Friday, was dedicated for discussions.