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Earlier we predicted the quantum Anomalous Hall effect in twisted mono-bilayer graphene (tMBG), and we showed how spin-orbit coupling can be induced in graphene by placing it on top of a TMD. The next natural step is to study the combination of these two: what happens to tMBG when spin-orbit...

The regular Flat Club meetings will continue in the spring of 2026 with another set of amazing speakers. Please check the Flat Club website https://flatclub.dqmp.ch/, and register there for the mailing list to keep up to date!

For the fall of 2026 our group has an opening for a postdoctoral position, based at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Interested candidates can read more ánd apply at AcademicJobsOnline: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31696The deadline is Tuesday 17 March, but exceptional candidates...

On Thursday 23 January, our group member Dario Rossi successfully defended his PhD thesis "Quantum Magnetism in Synthetic Systems". Dario was jointly supervised by Louk Rademaker and Dima Abanin from Princeton. His work spans two major experimental platforms — moiré materials and quantum...

Vincent Lombardo, who wrote his Master thesis "Single-particle spectral function of a fractionalChern insulator using exact diagonalization" in our group, has received the Prix Jean Würth for best Master thesis of the Physics Section. During the Ceremony to honor the graduates of 2025 he received ...

We are happy to announce the schedule for the Flat Club meetings in Spring 2025. You can see the full list of participants here:

The field of strongly correlated physics revolves, traditionally, around two classes of materials: the heavy fermions and the cuprates. In both, there are signatures of a quantum critical point (QCP). The main features of both these QCPs can be understood by a simple picture of having a Mott...

Dr. Giulia Venditti obtained a highly competitive SNSF postdoctoral fellowship. The main aim of her project Xtra-Ordinary Vortices (XVORTEX) is to study the intertwining of topological defects and the topology of the electronic degrees of freedom in novel 2D systems.

On March 15th, Dr. Giulia Venditti gave a talk for the Flat Club seminar series entitled "The struggle of 2d superconductors". She discussed the practical challenges of observing the hallmarks of a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition in real 2d superconductors, where screening...