When magnetism meets topology
The search for exotic particles is one of the most fascinating pursuits of modern physics. While this area of research is traditionally associated with elementary particles created in high-energy physics, simple ‘quasi-particles’, with sometimes highly unconventional...
LCN student awarded the prestigious Ramsay Medal
It has been announced that LCN PhD student, Toby Gill, has been awarded the Ramsay Medal by UCL’s Department of Chemistry. Toby Gill is supervised by Dr Cyrus Hirjibehedin and co-supervised by Professor Yukiko Yamada-Takamura at the Japan Advanced Institute of...
Magnetically driven metal-insulator transition in a correlated spin-orbit material
Perhaps the most basic classification of a material is according to whether or not it conducts electricity in response to an applied electric field. However, our understanding of why the metallic state is preferred over the insulating one, or vice versa, is far from...
EU referendum: the LCN’s message to students and staff
In light of the UK’s vote to leave the European Union, UCL President & Provost Professor Michael Arthur assures UCL students and staff from EU countries that they will continue to be as valued and as welcome as before, and that their contribution to UCL lfe is...