Today #DIPC Colloquia 👇 📌 Four geometrical-optics illusions 👨‍🔬 Michael Berry, University of Bristol 🗓️ July 24, 12h 🏫 DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room

Tomorrow #DIPC Colloquia 👇 📌 Battling the underdetermination of dark energy 👨‍🔬 Pedro G. Ferreira, Astrophysics, University of Oxford 🗓️ June 18, 16h 🏫 DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room

The abstract submission deadline (June 15) is coming up for NM4QM. If this workshop is on your radar, or if you know someone who might be interested, now's the time to submit or share the call.

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Pleased to announce the upcoming workshop on "Numerical Methods for Quantum Materials: From nanographenes to moiré materials (NM4QM)", which will take place at DIPC, Donostia/San Sebastián, October 13-16, 2026. nm4qm.dipc.org @dipcehu.bsky.social @icmm-csic.bsky.social

Tomorrow #DIPCcolloquia 👇 📌 Density Functional Theory: Why It Works, Why It Matters, and What Comes Next  👨‍🔬 Kieron Burke, School of Physical Sciences, @ucirvine.bsky.social  🗓️ April 16, 16h 🏫 DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room

Pleased to announce the upcoming workshop on "Numerical Methods for Quantum Materials: From nanographenes to moiré materials (NM4QM)", which will take place at DIPC, Donostia/San Sebastián, October 13-16, 2026. nm4qm.dipc.org @dipcehu.bsky.social @icmm-csic.bsky.social

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PSA: There are going to be many open positions in quantum technologies in CSIC in the coming years. Permanent positions. If you are interested, please review earlier calls to understand the requirements 1/

📣 we are hiring! We are looking for candidates for a fully funded PhD position at EHU to study organic radicals and charge-to-spin conversion mechanisms using computational chemistry methods @ec.europa.eu 👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬 📅 Deadline: April 17 👇 Details below, please RT www.danielreta.com/phd-computat...

Rafaelle Resta will give a DIPC colloquium today at 16h on "Adiabaticity and Quantum Geometry". Everybody is welcome. dipc.ehu.eus/en/scientifi... @dipcehu.bsky.social

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⚛️ Professor in experimental or theoretical quantum information Faculty position at the Université de Sherbrooke (Département de physique) and Institut quantique - Université de Sherbrooke! www.usherbrooke.ca/emplois/offr...

Two tenure track positions in computational physics @aalto.fi: www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...

We regret the loss of George Smoot who passed away at his home in Paris. It was an honour for us to have had the opportunity to work with Prof. Smoot. We will miss him deeply, and his legacy will continue inspiring us and future generations of scientists In memoriam bitl.to/571D

In memoriam George Smoot

DIPC’s community regrets the loss of George Smoot, who passed away at his home in Paris

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To harness graphene nanoribbons as controllable quantum objects, researchers need to isolate them from the metal surface while still being able to control their charge.

Tuning spin and charge in graphene nanoribbons

The behaviour associated to spin and charge of graphene nanoribbons can be tuned systematically by their geometry and environment

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New paper published! We studied how electronic properties of h-BN on graphite are modulated within moiré superlattices and explored what happens when two layers of h-BN get twisted 🔬 . Check it out in ACS Nano: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Nanoscale Band Gap Modulation and Dual Moiré Superlattices of Hexagonal Boron Nitride Weakly Coupled to Graphite

Van der Waals (vdW) materials, such as hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), are highly promising for applications in optoelectronics and quantum technologies. When assembled into heterostructures, h-BN can...

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The Perseverance rover on Mars has observed unusual minerals associated with organic matter — raising questions about the geochemistry of ancient Mars. go.nature.com/469V1nr

Mystery Martian minerals hint at the planet’s complex geochemical past

The Perseverance rover on Mars has observed unusual minerals associated with organic matter — raising questions about the geochemistry of ancient Mars.

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Out in Nat. Commun. Led by David Serrate (Zaragoza) the exp. team shows controlled electron filling in GNRs on ultrathin MgO/Ag(001). Electropositive surface = up to 19 extra electrons! Honoured to contribute some theory. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Graphene #QuantumMaterials #STM #Spintronics

Systematic modulation of charge and spin in graphene nanoribbons on MgO - Nature Communications

Precise control of charge and spin states in quantum dots is often challenging. Here, the authors show systematic manipulation of the electron occupation in graphene nanoribbons laying on MgO.

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The Topological Photonics 2025 (Topophoto25) workshop is taking place these days at Miramar Palace as part of DIPC´s workshops program. Check all the information here: topophoto2025.dipc.org #uik

Researchers studied a copper-phthalocyanine molecule on a thin layer of salt. They discovered that the salt actively reshapes the molecule’s structure and decides where extra electrons reside. 

How a salt layer shapes electron behaviour in a single molecule

Salt, far from being a passive bystander, actively reshapes the molecule’s structure and decides where extra electrons reside

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Book launch of "Las Guerras Nucleares" by Eduardo Jesús Sánchez Cascón happening now! www.bubok.es/libros/28144...

Ferromagnetic Molecular Spin Trimer pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #PiSky

On-Surface Synthesis of a Ferromagnetic Molecular Spin Trimer

Triangulenes are prototypical examples of open-shell nanographenes. Their magnetic properties, arising from the presence of unpaired π electrons, can be extensively tuned by modifying their size and shape or by introducing heteroatoms. Different triangulene derivatives have been designed and synthesized in recent years thanks to the development of on-surface synthesis strategies. Triangulene-based nanostructures with polyradical character, hosting several interacting spin units, can be challenging to fabricate but are particularly interesting for potential applications in carbon-based spintronics. Here, we combine pristine and N-doped triangulenes into a more complex nanographene, TTAT, predicted to possess three unpaired π electrons delocalized along the zigzag periphery. We generate the molecule on a Au(111) surface and detect direct fingerprints of multiradical coupling and high-spin state using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy. With the support of theoretical calculations, we show that its three radical units are localized at distinct parts of the molecule and couple via symmetric ferromagnetic interactions, which result in a S = 3/2 ground state, thus demonstrating the realization of a molecular ferromagnetic Heisenberg spin trimer.

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Fully funded PhD and Postdoc positions in Physics currently available in my group @dublincityuni.bsky.social on the interplay of two-dimensional materials, quantum transport and AI. PhD: www.dcu.ie/physics/theo... Postdoc: www.euraxess.ie/jobs/349999 #graphene #quantum #phd #jobfairy

Today #DIPCseminars 👇 📌 The weird and wonderful world of catalysis 👨‍🔬 Michele Parrinello, Italian Institute of Technology @iitalk.bsky.social  🗓️ May 27, 12:30 🏫 DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room

Prof. Rainer Blatt, IQOQI Innsbruck, speaking now for a general audience on "100 Years of Quantum Physics – And that´s just the Beginning" in @tabakalera.bsky.social. #quantum

SYNTOM workshop (SYNthetic TOpological Matter), to be held in the Benasque Science Center in Spain, August 31st, 2025 - September 06th, 2025 benasque.org/2025stm/

Paper out in #PhysRevLett with Moritz @gr221.bsky.social, Laerte @laertepatera.bsky.social, Felix, Jascha, Andrea @uniregensburg.bsky.social journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... @dipcehu.bsky.social @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social #STM #ChargeTransfer #JahnTellerEffect #ManybodyModel

TheBad Honnef Physics School on "Ultracold Quantum Matter“ is to be held at the Physics Center in Bad Honnef, Germany during the period August 10 – 16, 2025 www.dpg-physik.de/veranstaltun...

The ATRAE program from @ageinves.bsky.social aims "to facilitate the incorporation of consolidated research talent, of recognised international prestige" Given the circumstances, this may be of particular interest for academics from the US www.aei.gob.es/en/news/agen...

Today in Physical Review Letters (journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...), control of Andreev reflection via a single-molecule orbital, together with Lorenz Meyer, Nicolas Néel, and Jörg Kröger

Ready to learn about #quantum algorithms at a joint Basque-Bordeaux event in #Baiona. @dipcehu.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social #BasQ

As from today, the conference on Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Materials (#AI4AM2025) will be bringing together over 200 experts in #AI applied to the development of #advancedmaterials from industry and research centres 📌Donostia / San Sebastián April 08-10 2025 👀 https://tinyurl.com/4h5chaz4