News 2021

Charge order and superconductivity in kagome materials

Sun, 12 Dec 2021 23:00:00 GMT

Researchers from the group of Titus Neupert publish in Nature Physics.

Open Day 2021, November 26

Sun, 28 Nov 2021 23:00:00 GMT

Members of the Physics Department presented 40 posters with current research directions and ideas for future experiments and lead through the mechanical workshop and the research laboratories.

Dectris Preis 2021 - Vera Hiu-Sze Wu

Wed, 24 Nov 2021 23:00:00 GMT

Herzlichen Glückwunsch an Vera Hiu-Sze Wu, die Gewinnerin des DECTRIS Preises! Der Preis wird für eine hervorragende Masterarbeit in Experimentalphysik an unserem Institut verliehen.

Gravitational-Wave Catalog

Fri, 19 Nov 2021 09:23:37 GMT

Black holes of ‘all shapes and sizes’ in new gravitational-wave catalog

New strain cell for neutron and x-ray scattering

Tue, 21 Sep 2021 12:26:43 GMT

A collaboration between the groups of Profs. Chang and Janoschek and the PSI, has developed a novel strain cell that can be combined with high-resolution synchrotron diffraction techniques allowing to change the strain of a quantum material in-situ while directly observing the lattice symmetry.

Fast spectroscopic mapping of two-dimensional quantum materials

Tue, 16 Nov 2021 10:11:38 GMT

New publication by the group of Fabian Natterer in Phys. Rev.

Florencia Canelli - neue CMS Physik Koordinatorin

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 22:00:00 GMT

Am 1. September begann Florencia Canelli Ihre Arbeit als CMS Physik-Koordinatorin. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

Exceptional Topological Insulators

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:23:08 GMT

Researchers from the group Neupert propose the non-Hermitian analogue of three-dimensional topological insulators.

Installation des CMS Pixel Detektors

Tue, 07 Sep 2021 22:00:00 GMT

Nach mehr als zwei Jahren Wartung und Upgrade während der Shutdown des LHC Beschleunigers wurde der Pixeldetektor im Zentrum des CMS-Detektors wieder installiert.

Zwei neue Ambizione Fellows

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 22:00:00 GMT

Herzlichen Glückwunsch: Luca Rottoli (Gruppe Grazzini) und Shubhanshu Tiwari (Gruppe Jetzer) erhalten einen SNF Ambizione Grant für die nächsten vier Jahre!

In memoriam Roland Engfer, 5. Dezember 1934 - 18. Oktober 2021

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 19:07:42 GMT

Gravitationswellen-Exponat in focus Terra ETH

Wed, 25 Aug 2021 22:00:00 GMT

RAI SuperQuark: Italian TV report on recent LHCb results

Thu, 12 Aug 2021 22:00:00 GMT

Italian TV report on the Flavour Anomalies measured at LHCb, featuring Nico Serra and Gino Isidori

Leading Xenon Researchers unite to build next-generation Dark Matter Detector

Mon, 02 Aug 2021 22:00:00 GMT

Hundreds of global researchers, including University of Zurich, are planning the most sensitive dark matter detector ever built.

Theory meets Experiment: Ultimate precision for the Drell-Yan process

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 22:00:00 GMT

Theoretical particle physicists of the group of Massimiliano Grazzini have completed the first computation of strong-electroweak corrections to the Drell-Yan process.

New sputtering system with in situ Reflective High Energy Electron Diffraction

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 22:00:00 GMT

This new system used by the group of Marta Gibert allows to track the growth of complex oxide thin films with atomic precision in real time.

Das Unsichtbare sichtbar machen

Sun, 04 Jul 2021 22:00:00 GMT

Die Astroteilchenphysikerin Laura Baudis sucht nach verborgener Materie.
SCNAT portraitiert Laura Baudis in der Reihe Wissenschaftlerinnen in ehemaligen Männerdomänen

First discovery of a neutron star colliding with a black hole

Tue, 29 Jun 2021 22:00:00 GMT

For the first time, gravitational-wave astronomers of the LIGO collaboration - including Maria Haney und Shubhanshu Tiwari from the group of Philippe Jetzer - have confirmed the detection of a collision between a black hole and a neutron star.

Kenny Choo erhält SPS Thesis Award

Sun, 13 Jun 2021 22:00:00 GMT

Für seine Doktorarbeit über Quantenzustände in neuronalen Netzwerken erhielt Kenny Choo aus der Condensed Matter Theory Group den PhD Thesis Award 2021 der Schweizerischen Physikalischen Gesellschaft in der Kategorie Computational Physics.

Theorists discover new paradigm of topological band structures

Sun, 06 Jun 2021 22:00:00 GMT

In their recent work members of the group Neupert extend the paradigm of topological insulators to areas which were previously thought to contain only trivial insulators.

ERC grant: TOPUP - Theory of Particle Collider Processes at Ultimate Precision

Fri, 23 Apr 2021 22:00:00 GMT

Professor Thomas Gehrmann erhält einen ERC Advanced Grant um neue Methoden für Präzisionsberechnungen in der Teilchenphysik zu entwickeln.

Recent Results from LHCb Challenge Leading Theory in Physics

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 23:00:00 GMT

The LHCb collaboration has just released new intriguing results. The latest measurements strengthen hints for a deviation with respect to the theoretical expectations.

Damic

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 23:00:00 GMT

The DAMIC experiment has uncovered an interesting excess of events while searching for dark matter. The probability that the background produced the excess is less than one in a thousand.

WannierBerri

Thu, 18 Feb 2021 23:00:00 GMT

The Python code WannierBerri developed by Stepan Tsirkin breaks the records of speed in evaluation of anomalous transport in solids.

CMS Award for Cristina Botta

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 23:00:00 GMT

Cristina Botta was awarded for her outstanding contributions in developing and coordinating the physics trigger menu for the CMS Level-1 Phase-2 Trigger upgrade (more)

High-quality hexagonal boron nitride from 2D distillation

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 23:00:00 GMT

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is the key packaging material in two-dimensional (2D) materials field, though synthesis of high-quality h-BN has remained a major challenge. Cun at al. reported a new scheme to fabricate single layer h-BN

GERDA Resultat: Neutrinoloser Doppelbetazerfall

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 23:00:00 GMT

Die Untergrenze für die Halbwertszeit des neutrinolosen doppelten Betazerfalls (0νββ) von ⁷⁶Ge beträgt 1,8 × 10²⁶ Jahre, so das Endergebnis des Experiments GERDA im Untergrundlabor LNGS in Italien.

Unusual coupling in an artificial material

Mon, 05 Oct 2020 22:00:00 GMT

The group of Marta Gibert published results on the transport properties of atomic-precise superlattices made from two alternating distinct nickelate layers, NdNiO₃ and SmNiO₃ in Nature Materials.

Machine Learning kompakt

Sun, 17 Jan 2021 23:00:00 GMT

Einstieg zum Machine Learning - ein Buch von Titus Neupert et al. Das Buch richtet sich an Studierende aller Naturwissenschaften und kann https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783658322670 kostenlos (von der UZH aus) heruntergeladen werden.