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Six professors appointed

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Collage new profs

At its meeting of 11 and 12 July 2024 and upon application of Joël Mesot, President of ETH Zurich, the ETH Board appointed six professors. The Board also awarded the title of "Professor" two times and the title of "Professor of Practice" once.

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Electron vortices in graphene detected

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Representation of an electron vortex in graphs

Researchers at ETH Zurich have, for the first time, made visible how electrons form vortices in a material at room temperature. Their experiment used a quantum sensing microscope with an extremely high resolution.

by Oliver Morsch

Solving physics puzzles with coloured dots

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Painting “A Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte*

By analysing images made of coloured dots created by quantum simulators, ETH researchers have studied a special kind of magnetism. In the future this method could also be used to solve other physics puzzles, for instance in superconductivity.

by Oliver Morsch

Surprising reversal in quantum systems

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Researchers at ETH Zurich have studied topological effects in an artificial solid, making surprising observations. The new insights into topological pumping could be used for quantum technologies in the future.

by Oliver Morsch

A new ion trap for larger quantum computers

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The researchers' experimental setup

Researchers at ETH have managed to trap ions using static electric and magnetic fields and to perform quantum operations on them. In the future such traps could be used to realize quantum computers with far more quantum bits than have been possible up to now.

by Oliver Morsch
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