UZH Physik-Institut

Great success of Prof. Neupert’s group! 🎉🎉🎉
Martina O. Soldini et al. published their paper titled “Two dimensional topological crystalline superconductors can be built atom by atom” in Nature Physics !

Researchers in the Neupert group at the University of Zurich and in the Sessi group at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle, Germany, have predicted and experimentally realised two-dimensional superconducting “Shiba lattices” which show signatures of crystalline topology. These lattices consist of Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states, motivating the name “Shiba lattices”, which arise when magnetic adatoms are placed on the surface of a conventional superconductor. By assembling lattices of magnetic adatoms one-by-one, by means of scanning tunnelling microscopy techniques, the experimentalists have built different two dimensional structures, distinguished by the type of lattice in the bulk and termination geometry. Scanning tunnelling microscopy also allows to probe these structures with single-atom precision. The experimental measurements and theoretical predictions indicate that two of the structures host Majorana edge bands and higher order corner Majorana modes, respectively, which are protected by the crystalline symmetries of the sample and termination geometry.
This work shows that Shiba lattices are promising a platform to design topological phases in two-dimensional superconductors.

We recommend a new exhibition in the Science Pavilion 🤩
Come and learn more about gravitational waves !

Last month success of Adinda De Wit (our former colleague, now in Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, in France) : Adinda won the "2023 Guido Altarelli award” for outstanding achievements in understanding the nature of the Higgs boson, including precision studies of the quark couplings and decay channels. Congrats!🎉

Want to know more about the cutting-edge research happening at our Physik-Institut? Check out our latest annual report to learn about our incredible team and their groundbreaking discoveries.



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Annual Report 2022

Thrilling news from CERN !
The two experiments report the first observation of neutrinos at the which paves the way for exploring new physics scenarios. The group of Nico Serra crucially contributed to the detector and the analysis - congratulations!
Read more on: https://home.cern/news/news/physics/new-lhc-experiments-enter-uncharted-territory

Dear high school students, we invite you to participate in the open days of our faculty. Our staff, researchers, and students will be available to answer all your questions. You are also welcome to attend lectures and take part in laboratory tours. See you on Saturday!

Find detailed schedule in the link below:

www.mnf.uzh.ch

Following the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we highlight the Women in Physics Career Symposium taking place as part of the annual meeting of the Swiss Physical Society in Basel. Check out the details below and see you there!

Along with the upcoming Women in Science Day we are proud to present a fresh achievement of our women scientist, Postdoc, dr. Carolina Marques. Carolina won the “best poster award” at the SAOG in Fribourg on February 3rd (Surface Science and Thin Films Community of Switzerland) for her poster “Probing the superconductor-quantum spin liquid interaction in a van der Waals material”.

We are very proud of Carolina and her award because it comes from original research Carolina has started since joining us at the Department of Physics and because it combines all the recent developments from our group and collaborators.

Congratulations!🎉

Join our guided tours through the Science Pavilion 👇

Wollen Sie die Ausstellungen des Physik-Instituts der Universität Zürich im Science Pavilion UZH geführt erkunden? Am 10. Januar 2023 haben Sie wieder die Möglichkeit. Mehr Infos und Anmeldung unter: https://t.uzh.ch/1qa

The snow has fallen and the corridors of our Institute are becoming quiet and empty....
so before you all leave for a well-deserved rest, we wish you a peaceful, harmonious and full of mercy holidays and a happy New Year! 🎄🎄🎄

Weihnachtsessen 2022
It was a magic evening! We thank all of you for your presence and a great atmosphere🎄

Last Friday, our institute hosted guests. Within the corridors and machine shops on floor G, each group presented posters about its research profile. We finished the event with a traditional apero 😊 Thank you for your presence !