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Topological Quantum Materials

Tenfold Table

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Creating and Imaging Topological Defects

Specific types of spatial defects or potentials can turn monolayer graphene into a topological material.  We propose a way to Read more… »

Quantum Entanglement and Topology

Entanglement of vacanacies

Topological features of condensed matter systems and quantum entanglement are two topics of current physical interest.  Read more… »

Quantum phase transitions – Anomalies

Quantum phase transitions – Anomalies – imageScale invariance is a property of our everyday environment. Its breaking gives rise to less common but beautiful structures like fractals. Read more… »

Statistical mechanics of out of equilibrium systems

 

The best understood systems in statistical mechanics are those at equilibrium (fixed energy) or in thermal contact with a thermostat.  These  systems  are  well  descri-Read more… »

Topology of tilings

The notion of tilings recover structures also Read more… »

Statistical mechanics and quantum fields on fractals

Statistical mechanics and quantum fields on fractals – imageFractals define a new realm to study basic phenomena in quantum field theory and statistical mechanics.  This results from speci-Read more… »

Quantum mesoscopic and Casimir physics

Quantum mesoscopic physics – imageQuantum coherent effects are usually washed up at a macroscopic scale. De­co­her­ence originates from disorder, temperature, external couplings, etc.  But  carefully  prepa- Read more… »

Cooperative effects and superradiance

Cooperative effects and superradiance – imageSpontaneous emission of an atom coupled to quantum vacuum fluctuations is well un­derstood.    When two or more atoms are bro- Read more… »

Topology and Physics on Mount Carmel

Topology and Physics on Mount Carmel

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Despite all that may have been said against science, we must not forget that, amid the deterioration of so many human orders, scientific research remains one of the rare domains in which man controls himself, bows to reason, is not wordy or violent, but pure. These are moments of research, constantly interrupted by the banalities of everyday life, but moments that, conjoined, have their own duration. Is not the place of morality and loftiness henceforth the laboratory?

E. Levinas (Le Monde, 19/20 Mars 1978)