Dal 18 al 20 maggio si è tenuta l’edizione 2026 di Pint of Science, il festival internazionale che porta la ricerca scientifica nei pub e nei bar, trasformando luoghi informali in spazi di dialogo tra ricercatori e cittadini.

A new study published in Physical Review Letters demonstrates how intense terahertz light can parametrically control atomic vibrations, providing a new blueprint for ultrafast material engineering.

An international research team bringing together leading groups in the field of quantum materials, and guided by the SPIN Institute (Mario Cuoco and Luciano Jacopo D’Onofrio), in close collaboration with the teams from the University of Padova (Federico Mazzola), University of Krakow (Wojciech Brzezicki) and University of Salerno (Carmine Ortix and Maria Teresa Mercaldo), has uncovered a remarkable new phenomenon, now termed the MISOH Effect — Multipolar-Induced Spin-Optical Helicity effect.

Alessandro Stroppa, dirigente di ricerca di CNR-SPIN, ha partecipato a Fiera Didacta Italia 2026 sia come relatore nel programma scientifico dedicato alla formazione dei docenti, sia come espositore nello stand istituzionale del CNR, dove ha presentato percorsi e materiali didattici su simmetria, rottura di simmetria e chiralità per laboratori per bambini di scuola primaria.

The paper introduces the first theoretical description of ferroelectrically switchable altermagnetism.

SPARK-e is a new project funded by the European Innovation Council (EIC) with a total budget of almost €4 million. This collaborative consortium, made up of 10 partners from seven different countries, will design and test a new generation of phase change materials (PCMs) to boost the performance and extend the lifetime of smart edge devices.

As in the past years, and always with the goal of promoting the original contributions of young researchers on relevant research topics, the SPIN institute has assigned the Best Young Research Article (BYRA) award in 2025 to a scientist under the age of 35 who is part of the SPIN community.

Gli scorsi 24 e 25 Novembre, presso il Centro Congressi dell’Università Federico II di Napoli, si è tenuta la nuova edizione del Congresso dell’Istituto SPIN, con una larghissima partecipazione (quasi 100 iscrizioni) sia del personale di ricerca che di quello del settore tecnico – amministrativo, in rappresentanza di tutte le sedi.

A superconducting spin valve (SSV) is a device typically having a ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet (F/S/F) sandwich structure. It can switch between a resistive and a dissipationless state upon the application of a small in-plane magnetic field, which allows the relative orientation of the F-layer magnetizations to change from parallel to antiparallel, respectively. 

Nonlinear effects of a visible beam interacting with a material are typically probed by a pulsed laser with high brilliance. Free-Electron-Laser facilities offer the advantage to extend such investigations in the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) but at the same time inherently limit practical applications.