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Read more at: Nature Physics paper published on the 4-spin plaquette singlet state in a in a 2-D quantum material

Nature Physics paper published on the 4-spin plaquette singlet state in a in a 2-D quantum material

17 September 2017

Phase diagram of SrCu 2 (BO 3 ) 2 as a function of pressure and temperature. With QM investigator Dr. Montu Saxena, a team of scientists led by colleagues at EPFL and the Paul Scherrer Institut have realized experimentally a new quantum many body state in a material representing a famous theoretical model called the "...


Read more at: A bumper crop of vivas 

A bumper crop of vivas 

15 June 2017

We celebrate with three QM PhD students - Phil Brown, Hugh Glass, Matt Coak (from left to right in picture) - who have recently or very recently, as in today, successfully defended their theses. Congratulations on the successful completion of some very challenging work in good time, well under four years! Well done! (15/6/...


Read more at: Viva(t) Edd Cavanna

Viva(t) Edd Cavanna

16 March 2017

QM PhD student Edd Cavanna has taken his viva (at last ...) with external examiner Prof. Andrew Boothroyd, internal Malte Grosche. Congratulations! Edd was supervised by Prof. John Cooper and his dissertation is titled 'New developments in the methods of differential calorimetry'. (16/3/2017)