News from Physics
2004
18 Dec: A joint project between the Department of Physics and Institute for Surface Science and Technology (ISST) and Scientific Vacuum Systems (SVS) Ltd has received a national KTP award for the development of a process for making diamond-like coatings. Press release
16 Dec: Visitors Dr A Vagov (Antwerpen), Dr A Boris (MPI, Stuttgart) and Dr N Kovaleva (MPI, Stuttgart) to the Condensed Matter Theory and Quantum Information group, supported by the ESF network AQDJJ.
3 Nov: Sergei Bulgadaev from the Landau Institute, Moscow, and Kliment Kugel from the Institute of High Temperatures, Moscow, are visiting the Department for three months as Royal Society Visiting Fellows for research collaboration with the Condensed Matter Theory and Quantum Informationgroup.
22-26 Oct: The Department organised the inaugural workshop of the ESF network on Arrays of Quantum Dots and Josephson Junctions held at Medena, Croatia.
2 Sept: Dr Ivica Bradaric of the 'Vinca' Institute of Nuclear Sciences Laboratory for Theoretical and Condensed Matter Physics, Belgrade (Serbia and Montenegro) is visiting the department from 1 September to 24 November 2004. A grant has been awarded by the Royal Society for studies of novel oxides in collaboration with Prof Sasha Alexandrov.
8 Jul: Alexei Abrikosov, Leverhulme Visiting Professor to the Department of Physics and 2003 Nobel Laureate, receives honorary degree. Photos from dinner on 9 July.
1 Jul: Yang Yu, research student in the Materials Physics and Applications group, won a student poster prize at the UK Neutron and Muon User conference held June 28-30th 2004 at Warwick University for her work on the measurement of stress in the interior of adhesive joints.
12 Jun: Professor Sasha Andreev, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Director of the Kapitza Institute, is visiting the department from 21 May till 15 June 2004. A grant has been awarded by the Royal Society for studies of the Andreev reflection in high-temperature superconductors in collaboration with Professor Sasha Alexandrov.
7 Jun: Glorious sunshine for the staff-student football match.
11 Mar: It is with deep regret that we announce the death of Ron Howson, Emeritus Professor of Applied Physics, whose funeral took place today. Our sympathies go to Val and their children and grandchildren. Obituary.
25 Feb: Proceedings of workshop on Molecular Nanowires and Other Quantum Objects to appear April 2004 (Kluwer, 2004).
28 Jan: Leverhulme Visiting Professor Daniel Khomskii to give special lectures Physics of Systems with Strongly Correlated Electrons 9-13 Feb.
28 Jan: Ian Gilmore of the National Physical Laboratory has been awarded the Paterson medal and prize of the Institute of Physics for the development of an analytical tool G-SIMS for the analysis of molecules at surfaces. He developed this technique during his time as a Loughborough Physics PhD student.
2003
15 Dec: The Condensed Matter Theory and Quantum Information Group welcomes EPSRC Research Fellow Dr Mukul Laad to the Department.
7 Oct: Alexei Abrikosov, Leverhulme Visiting Professor to the Condensed Matter Theory and Quantum Information Group, shares 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics with Tony Leggett and Vitaly Ginzburg for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids.
Professor Abrikosov has already spent two extended visits at the Department of Physics to collaborate with Professor Feodor Kusmartsev on the theory of high temperature superconductors, once in December 2002 when he also participated in the international workshop on Strongly Correlated Electrons in New Materials, and again in May 2003 when he also presented the ninth annual Sir Nevill Mott lecture on Superconductivity: History and Current Status. Four Nobel laureates have spoken in this series at Loughborough, including Sir Peter Mansfield, 2003 Nobel laureate for Medicine. Professor Leggett has also recently visited the Department, presenting a Quantum Information seminar Testing the limits of quantum mechanics:motivation,state of play, prospects in June 2003.
15 Sept: A one-day workshop on Quantum Information Processing in Condensed Matter took place, organised by the Centre for Quantum Information. Five invited speakers and a number of contributors covered a wide range of developments in this rapidly advancing field. Report and photographs.
19 Aug: New book Theory of Superconductivity: From Weak to Strong Coupling by Prof Sasha Alexandrov, IOP Publishing
17 May: NATO has made an award to Prof Sasha Alexandrov for an Advanced Research
Workshop on Molecular Nanowires and other Quantum Objects to be held in Bled,
Slovenia from 7 to 10 Sep 2003. Workshop announcement and web site.
16 May: Score in staff-student football match is 5-4 to staff team. Photos and more information.
7 May: Professor Alexei Abrikosov (Argonne, USA) gave the ninth annual Sir Nevill Mott lecture on Superconductivity: History and Current Status. Report, transparencies and photos here.
17 April: A workshop on Quantum Information Processing in Condensed Matter will take place on 15 Sept
18 March: Professor Alexei Abrikosov (Argonne, USA) will give the ninth annual Sir Nevill Mott lecture on Wed 7 May on Superconductivity: History and Current Status
6 January: Dr Bakhrom Yavidov (Uzbekistan) will start his one year fellowship in April 2003 in the Quantum Structures and Phase Transitions group. He has received an award sponsored by NATO and administered by the Royal Society for research on bipolarons in high-temperature superconductors with Professor Sasha Alexandrov.
2002
14-17 December: The Department organised an international workshop on Strongly Correlated Electrons in New Materials. There were 35 speakers and 9 poster presenters from a total of 12 countries, covering many aspects of the physics of novel materials. The annual meeting of the Condensed Matter Theory group of the Institute of Physics also took place at Loughborough on 17 Dec in conjunction with the workshop. The abstract book is available for downloading, and papers from this workshop will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Physics A.
9 December: Professor Safarali Dzhumanov (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan) starts his study visit to the Quantum Structures and Phase Transitions (QSPT) group in January 2003. He has received a Royal Society study visit grant for research on bipolarons in high-temperature superconductors with Professor Sasha Alexandrov.
2 December: Professor Sasha Andreev, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Director of the Kapitza Institute, is visiting the Quantum Structures and Phase Transitions (QSPT) group from 6 January till 25 January 2003. He is taking part in the Leverhulme interchange project on high-temperature superconductivity.
24 November: Dr. Kirill Alekseev, Advanced Fellow, Academy of Finland, and Humboldt Fellow in Regensburg, Germany, is visiting the Condensed Matter Theory and Quantum Information group from November 2002 to January 2003 as Research Fellow of Royal Society. He is taking part in research related to nanoscience and quantum information.
1 November: Professor Philip W Anderson, 1977 Nobel laureate for Physics, gave the eighth annual Sir Nevill Mott lecture on Friday, 1 November, on the history of the Mott metal-insulator transition..
16 September: The second Leverhulme Interchange Project meeting on high-temperature superconductivity will take place in the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) on 4-7 October 2002. The Institutional Partners from the Loughborough QSPT group, the University of Cambridge, Kapitza Institute (Moscow), and Leuven Laboratorium voor Vaste Stoffysica en Magnetisme will discuss the properties of high-temperature superconductors in ultra-high magnetic fields:
2 September: Professor David Emmony retires at the end of this month. We wish David and Marcia many happy years in their new home in Somerset.
20 August: Professor Philip W Anderson, 1977 Nobel laureate for Physics, will give the eighth annual Sir Nevill Mott lecture on Friday, 1 November.
5 April: Professor Sasha Andreev, Vice President of the Russian Academy of
Sciences and Director of the Kapitza Institute, is visiting the Quantum
Structures and Phase Transitions group in September-October 2002. He is taking
part in the Leverhulme interchange project on high-temperature
superconductivity.
4 March: The Leverhulme Trust has agreed to offer Loughborough University a research
grant to study the formation of electronic molecules, strings and stripes in oxides,
to be administered by Feo V Kusmartsev. Professor Danya Khomskii (distinguished professor from Groningen University and honoured professor of the Lebedev General Physics Institute, Moscow) is joining the Condensed Matter Theory and Quantum Information group as Leverhulme Professor for the next 1.5 years.
22 January: Professor Sasha Andreev (Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Director of the Kapitza Institute), Professor Yao Liang (Cambridge),
Professor Victor Moshchalkov (Leuven, Belgium), and Dr. Alex Bratkovskii
(Hewlett Packard, California) are visiting the Quantum Structures and Phase Transitions group in January, 23 to 29. They will take part in the Leverhulme interchange project meeting on high-temperature superconductivity.
21 January: Professor Klaus Ploog Director of the Paul Drude Institut in
Berlin, to visit the Experimental Condensed Matter research group in April.
The visit is intended to discuss matters arising in connection with
common research projects, in particular spintronics.
2001
19 December: Gerry Swallowe has been awarded an EPSRC research grant to the value of £211,840 for A numerical and experimental investigation of 3-dimensional strains in adhesively bonded joints for the years 2002-4.
14 December: Average RAE grade of Department is 4.2, with staff returned under two units of assessment: grade 4 for Physics and grade 5 for Mechanical Engineering.
30 November: Earlier this year Professor Brown, a member of the Condensed Matter Physics
group, won the European neutron scattering prize. Now she has been awarded
the Guthrie prize and medal of the Institute of Physics for her outstanding
contributions to the field of neutron scattering, especially in the area of
polarisation phenomena in the scattering process.
12 November: New degree programme Quantum Information and Computation is the first of its kind in the UK.
12 November: Revised degree programme Physics and Computing (formerly Physics with Computing), now equally split between Physics and Computing.
12 November: New visitor: Professor K I Kugel from the Institute for Theoretical and Applied Electrodynamics, Russia, supported by the Royal Society. The Kugel-Khomskii Hamiltonian, which he has proposed, is one of the fundamental Hamiltonians of Condensed Matter Physics. His research is concerned with different areas of condensed matter theory: electron theory of metals and their compounds, magnetism, superconductivity, astrophysics and polymer science. In recent publications he has dealt with the physics of manganites with colossal magnetoresistance (instabilities of homogeneous state and formation of superstructures, phase separation, fluctuations, and transport phenomena) and dynamic transitions in vortex matter of type-II superconductors.
17 September: The Leverhulme Trust has agreed to offer Loughborough University a research interchange grant for High-temperature superconductors in ultrahigh magnetic fields to be administered by Professor Alexandrov. Dr Vladimir Zavaritsky (from Lebedev General Physics Institute, Moscow) is joining the Quantum Structures and Phase Transitions group as Leverhulme Research Fellow for three years.
23 August: Jane Brown, a member of the Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Group and Visiting Professor in the Department of Physics at Loughborough University, has been awarded the 2001 Walter Hälg Prize from the European Neutron Scattering Association, in recognition of her pioneering contributions to the science of neutron scattering over the last four decades. The prize will be presented to Jane on 10 September, during the International Conference on Neutron Scattering in Munich.
14 June: Professor Mikko Saarela arrives on 2 July from Finland to work in the Condensed Matter Theory Group on the metal-insulator transition, supported by EPSRC.
8 June: Prof. Viktor Kabanov arrives on 1 July as an EPSRC Research Fellow.
6 Apr: The Nobel Laureate Professor Philip Anderson (from Princeton) has accepted our invitation to deliver the 2002 Sir Nevill Mott lecture. In 1977 Professor Anderson, Sir Nevill Mott and Professor van Vleck jointly won the Nobel Prize "for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems"
1 Feb: Professor K. A. Müller (Nobel Prize Laureate in superconductivity) will visit the Department in June/July following the invitation of Prof. Alexandrov supported by the Royal Society. Picture.
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