DFMT I.C. student Henrique Jose Correia Zanoli received an Honorable Mention Award in the 20º International Scientific Initiation Symposium of USP. The awarded study “Structural and electronic analysis of amino acids by semi-empirical quantum computational methods” was supervised by Profa. Helena M. Petrilli in the NANOMOL group and supported by FAPESP I.C. scholarship.

Bose-Einstein condensation occurs when a system of quantum-mechanical particles with integer  spin or angular momentum is cooled to its ground state and forms a coherent state of identical particles. The Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) occurs in systems that satisfy two requirements: bosonic behavior and number conservation. It is this second requirement that limits the prevalence of BEC systems in nature. BECs were first identified in dilute collections of laser-cooled cold atoms in 1995, leading to the Nobel Prize.

O professor Ronaldo Rodrigues Pelá, do Departamento de Física do ITA, foi premiado na Conferência Internacional de Física de Semicondutores (ICPS) ocorrida de 29/07 a 03/08 no ETH em Zurique.

In field of topological insulators, the article "Nonlocal Transport Near Charge Neutrality Point in a Two-Dimensional Electron-Hole System” published in PRL 108, 226804 (2012) by Prof. Gusev, Prof. Levine and collaborators was selected for the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology.   

A new class of nonequilibrium phenomena is expected when a low-dimensional electron gas, subjected to a weak magnetic field, is also irradiated with microwaves. In a recent publication, an experimental work in the LNMS at DFMT-IFUSP provides evidence for an edge-state current stabilized by microwave irradiation.
“ Microwave-induced nonlocal transport in a two-dimensional electron system”

Uma nova área de pesquisa em materiais 2D tem explorado a combinação destes materiais 
em heteroestruturas verticais chamadas de cristais de van der Waals. Um trabalho 
realizado por membros do DFMT, com o objetivo de obter novas propriedades a partir do 
empilhamento apropriado, foi publicado Phys. Rev. Lett. e obteve destaque na segunda 
edição do BIFUSP. 

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van der Waals Heterostructure of Phosphorene and Graphene: