Anche quest'anno il progetto delle Italian Quantum Weeks  coordinato dall'Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie (IFN) del CNR fa tappa a Salerno. L'evento inaugurale dal titolo Quantum Discovery Day intende celebrare il World Quantum Day.

The applications of symmetry properties in condensed-matter physics has become of paramount importance at the forefronts of chemistry and materials science. To unveil the microscopic mechanisms at the basis of the intriguing physical properties of complex materials, advanced computational tools are often required for describing symmetries of crystals and their impact on electronic and magnetic structure of the materials.

The webpage for the seminar series is now available at the URL: https://www.spin.cnr.it/research/research-seminar-series

Cnr-Spin is organizing the online “Workshop on Materials and Devices for Biomagnetism and Magnetometry” scheduled on April 16, 2024. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working in the field of magnetic devices and related materials to stimulate new ideas and directions in emerging applications of biomagnetism.

Nel mese di Aprile tornano le attività di outreach incentrate sulla divulgazione degli aspetti fondamentali della Meccanica Quantistica e dei relativi sviluppi tecnologici, alla crescente attenzione, oggi, tanto del mondo della ricerca che di quello industriale.

A Genova torna EDU2024, evento di disseminazione per le scuole, presso l’Area Territoriale della Ricerca di Genova del Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche (Cnr): vi trovano spazio diverse iniziative delle strutture dell'Ente, finalizzate a promuovere il trasferimento della conoscenza verso le scuole del territorio.

During the week 17-24 February 2024, Dr. Fabio Miletto Granozio (FMG), Director of the CNR-SPIN, and Dr. Alessandro Stroppa (AS), Deputy Director of SPIN Unit of L’Aquila, were invited by Prof. Wei Ren, Shanghai University (SHU), to visit several scientific institutions in Shanghai, in order to share common interests for potential collaborations.

A research team which includes a large group of researchers from CNR-SPIN, CNR-IOM together with scientists of University Ca’ Foscari, University of Salerno, and MagTop Research Centre in Warsaw, as well as other national and international partners, has discovered a new state of matter characterized by the existence of a quantum phenomenon dubbed “spin-orbital chiral current”. These currents are generated on an atomic scale by a chiral cooperative movement of electrons, unlike conventional magnetic materials whose properties originate from the quantum characteristic of an electron known as spin and their ordering in the crystal.
Chirality is a property of extreme importance in science. In the quantum phenomenon discovered, the chirality of the currents was detected by studying the interaction between light and matter, in which a suitably polarized photon can emit an electron from the surface of the material with a well-defined spin state.

On December 20^th, the 2023 edition of the Workshop “Best Young Research Article Award (BYRA)” was held online and chaired by the SPIN researcher Carino Ferrante.

Lo scorso 13 Dicembre, la rivista Nature ha pubblicato i cosiddetti Nature's 10, la lista dei dieci personaggi che si sono distinti nelle cronache scientifiche del 2023. Si tratta di 10 personalità che hanno contribuito in maniera significativa al dibattito scientifico globale nel corso dell’anno su temi di particolare interesse e rilevanza quali, tra gli altri, la deforestazione dell'Amazzonia, la cura del cancro, gli effetti del riscaldamento globale.