News
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Realization of a combined band- and Mott insulator
Recently the UZH research group of Johan Chang uncovered - using angle-resolved photoemission electron spectroscopy - the nature of the Mott phase in Ca2RuO4 that has puzzled for decades.
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Bismuth on higher ground
Together with international collaborators the group of Titus Neupert reached a new understanding of the electronic properties of elementary bismuth
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PPC 2018 workshop, August 2018
Experts from different fields in Physics discussed the connections between particle physics and cosmology at the international conference 'Interconnection between Particle Physics and Cosmology', which took place in August 2018 in Zurich.
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5th Higgs anniversary
The discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations was announced five years ago, on 4 July 2012. To celebrate the fifth anniversary of this discovery, CMS released six videos with young researchers among them Daniel Salerno from UZH.
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XENON1T probes deeper into Dark Matter
New results from XENON1T, the world’s largest and most sensitive detector dedicated to a direct search for Dark Matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), were reported May 28.
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Higgs boson reaches the top
The CMS experiment at CERN unambiguously demonstrates the interaction of the Higgs boson and top quarks. This major milestone is an important step forward in our understanding of the origins of mass.
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Neuartige Isolatoren mit leitenden Kanten
Titus Neupert und seine Gruppe erforschen eine neue Materialklasse, die sogenannten topologischen Isolatoren höherer Ordnung. Die Kanten dieser kristallinen Festkörper leiten elektrischen Strom verlustfrei,
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Scalable growth of two dimensional (2D) materials
Centimeter sized boron nitride can be grown on and exfoliated from a single-crystalline rhodium thin film substrate. The findings have been highlighted in Science, 359, 649 (2018).
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Schrödingers Tage in Arosa
In seinen Zürcher Jahren revolutionierte der spätere Nobelpreisträger Erwin Schrödinger die Physik. Der Durchbruch gelang ihm in den Weihnachtsferien 1925 in Arosa.
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6th Beam Telescope and Test Beam Workshop, 16th - 19th January 2018
This workshop covers a wide range of topics related to test beams for detector studies in tracking detectors, calorimetry and beyond.
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Tag der offenen Tür 2017, 24. November
Mitarbeitende des Physik-Instituts präsentierten 40 Poster mit aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen und Ideen für zukünftige Experimente und führten durch die mechanische Werkstatt und die Forschungslabors.
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ZPW2018 - Flavours: light, heavy and dark, 15.-17. Jan. 2018
