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WOPM2025 at PSI - Workshop on optically-pumped magnetometers
From August 6 to 8, the 2025 workshop on 'Optically-Pumped Magnetometers' took place at PSI with a full day of Summer School lectures, followed by scientific sessions attended by 145 researchers from institutions worldwide.
SμS call for proposals II-25 is closed now
The call for SμS proposals II-25 (deadline 02 June 2025) is closed now.
E-MRS 2025 Spring Meeting Young Researcher Award for Mohammadhossein Montazerian
During its recent spring meeting the European Materials Research Society has awarded the E-MRS Young Researcher Award to Mohammadhossein Montazerian from the LMX laboratory in recognition of his "Outstanding contribution to the Symposium L: Solid state batteries - materials, processing and advanced characterization".
Scientific Highlights
Discovery of Nodal-Line Superconductivity in Chiral Crystals
Chiral crystals, whose key feature is the structural handedness, host exotic quantum phenomena driven by the interplay of band topology, spin-orbit coupling (SOC), and electronic correlations. Due to the limited availability of suitable chiral-crystal materials, their unconventional superconductivity (SC) remains largely unexplored.
Here, the discovery ...
Ferroaxial density wave from intertwined charge and orbital order in rare-earth tritellurides
The discovery of the axial amplitude mode—commonly referred to as the Higgs mode—in charge density wave systems, such as rare-earth tritellurides, indicates the presence of a hidden order. A theoretical study proposed that this axial Higgs mode arises from a hidden orbital texture of the charge density wave, which produces a ferroaxial charge order.
However, experimental evidence ...
Observation of Magnetic Pseudogap Behavior in Phosphorus-Doped Silicon
The recent discovery of a Kondo condensate in phosphorus-doped silicon (Si:P) presents its significant potential for achieving novel many-body quantum states. Si:P exhibits Kondo condensation, characterized by an energy gap in the electronic density of states, while the precise nature of its magnetic state has yet to be determined.
Here, we utilize ...