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Photo © Zhe Wang Due to the Corona pandemic, this year´s EMFL award ceremony took place less festive as usual. This time, Dr. Zhe Wang, junior group leader at the University of Cologne, had the honor to receive the prize. Due to the unusual circumstances, Jochen Wosnitza, Director of the Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory and chair of the prize committee, was forced to hand over the award via mail. Dr. Zhe Wang received the award for his pioneering work in the field of quantum magnetism, in particular for the experimental detection of Bethe strings using terahertz spectroscopy [...]

Photo © Jake Ayres Experimental physicist Jake Ayres, a former PhD student at HFML, has been awarded a two-year fully funded EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship to determine whether the elusive origin of high-temperature superconductivity can come from a newly revealed incoherent variety of electrons. “Using the high fields at the HFML during my PhD, I found signs that there appear to be two ‘varieties’ of electrons in hightemperature superconductors. One type behaves as we would expect ‘normal’ electrons to behave in magnetic fields, but the other variety is very unusual and appears to be incoherent. It’s potentially very [...]