Alexandre Pourret, CEA Grenoble and Gabriel Seyfarth, LNCMI-Grenoble. The recently discovered heavy-fermion superconductor UTe2 with superconducting transition temperature of 1.6 K is one of the rare examples of a heavy-fermion material with superconductivity appearing above 1 K. In contrast to the ferromagnetic heavy-fermion superconductors UCoGe and URhGe, UTe2 is [...]
Wuhan, capital city of Hubei province in the People‘s Republic of China, was the first urban center worldwide to get hit hard by the Corona pandemic. Now, months later, the situation on site is slowly getting back to normal. On April 8, 2020, the Wuhan lockdown officially ended. Meanwhile, [...]
Photo (©) HZDR André Wirsig Prof. Sebastian M. Schmidt took the reigns as scientific director of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) on April 1, 2020. He came from the Forschungszentrum Jülich, where he was a member of the Executive Board and has been responsible since November 2007 for the research [...]
Together with partners the three European Magnetic Field Laboratories, joined in EMFL, have been awarded two EU Horizon 2020 grants: one to develop all-superconducting user magnets beyond 40 Tesla (2.9 M€), and one to expand EMFL’s industrial and user community (4.9 M€). With these grants, EMFL will strengthen its [...]
Photo (©) LNCMI/Alexandra Gasparini. Published on May 13, 2020. LNCMI Grenoble. I am currently in my first year of PhD at LNCMI in Grenoble under the supervision of David Le Bœuf and Marc-Henri Julien. I passed a master’s degree in fundamental physics at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon. During [...]
Km Rubi, HFML Nijmegen. Photo (©): Km Rubi In order to extend the field range (0 - 30 T) of the data measured at HFML-Nijmegen, I performed magnetotransport measurements on an ionic-liquid gated two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) at complex oxides interface in pulsed magnetic fields up to 60 T [...]
Tino Gottschall, HLD Dresden. Photo (©): HZDR/Bernd Schröder The last two month of 2019 saw one of the first scientific secondments funded by the newly implemented exchange program of the EMFL. PhD student Adrià Gràcia-Condal from the University of Barcelona came to visit the HLD at the Helmholtz-Zentrum DresdenRossendorf [...]
Denis Gorbunov, HLD Dresden. The physical properties of uranium-based intermetallic compounds depend strongly on the degree of localization of the 5f electrons. The extended character of the 5f states leads to a high sensitivity to external parameters. The pronounced spin-orbit interaction of uranium provides significant orbital polarization of the [...]
Walter Escoffier, Michel Goiran, LNCMI Toulouse and Km Rubi, HFML Nijmegen. The discovery of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) at the interface between the two insulators LaAlO3 (LAO) and SrTiO3 (STO) has not only enhanced the expectations of oxide-electronics but has also brought new and exciting opportunities to explore [...]
Igor Vinograd and Marc-Henri Julien, LNCMI-Grenoble. High-temperature superconductivity in the cuprates arises in close proximity to a charge density wave (CDW) phase. A challenge in the field is to understand how both phenomena compete and whether, behind pure competition, there is a more involved relationship between them. To tackle [...]