Fangzhou Zhao from the MPSD’s Theory group has been selected for a Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdocs. He will pursue first-principles calculation methods to investigate the light-matter interaction of 2D materials in optical cavities.
The MPSD has officially opened its new state-of-the-art research building in Hamburg. The President of the Max Planck Society, Professor Patrick Cramer, and the Second Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Science Senator Katharina Fegebank, were guests of honor at the opening ceremony.
Mark Kamper Svendsen has been awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship to investigate how cavities need to be adapted in order to achieve specific changes in the materials placed inside them.
Sam Holt, a postdoc in the Scientific Support Unit Computational Science, has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship. The funding will allow him to explore new and novel magnetic structures.
Angel Rubio, director of the Theory Department and managing director of the MPSD, has been awarded the prestigious Spanish National Research Prize for his work on computational solid-state physics.
Researchers at the University of California San Diego and the MPSD have used an advanced optical technique to learn more about Ta2NiSe5 (TNS), with a broadened range of frequencies. The MPSD’s Theory Group provided DFT calculations for the study.
Jonathan Mannouch, a postdoc in the Theory Department, has been awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship. He joined the MPSD in October 2022 and has been developing new approaches for simulating nonadiabatic dynamics in chemical systems.
New study published in Nature Communications by members of the Theory Department sheds light on the optical nonlinearities induced and amplified by strong phonon resonances within hexagonal boron nitride (hBN).
Angel Rubio, the MPSD’s managing director, has been awarded the foreign membership of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The theoretical physicist was also recently named as the recipient of the Spanish National Research Prize.
Mark Kamper Svendsen, a postdoctoral researcher in the Theory group, has been selected for the Young Researcher Award by the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) for his PhD thesis, Light-Matter Interactions from First Principles.
Researchers in Germany and the USA have produced the first theoretical demonstration that the magnetic state of an atomically thin material, α-RuCl3, can be controlled solely by placing it into an optical cavity.
The mechanism by which liquids emit a particular light spectrum known as the high-harmonic spectrum is markedly different from the one in other phases of matter like gases and solids. An international research team from ETH Zurich and the MPSD reports on this distinctive process in Nature Physics.