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Congratulations to Prof. Alexey Kavokin,
the Scientific Director of MIFP,
who was awarded with the
International Quantum Device Award 2020
"For the prediction of room temperature Bose-Einstein condensation of exciton-polaritons, that led to the development of polariton lasers"
Congratulations to the
President of MIFP Dr. Giuseppe Eramo
with the Honorary Professorship
at the State University of Vladimir (Russia)
Congratulations to Rinaldo Santonico
MIFP congratulates the
Member of its Scientific Council,
Professor Rinaldo Santonico
with a prestigious International Award of
the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) of the Americal Physical Society.
The DPF Instrumentation award (2018) has been given to
Rinaldo Santonico for the development of
large gap Resistive Plate Chambers.
The President of MIFP Giuseppe Eramo
together with the
Member of MIFP and Nobel Prize Award Riccardo Valentini
received the
Honoris Causa of Georgian Technical University in Tbilisi
on 17/11/2018
from the Rector Prof. Dr. Archil Prangishvili
Stepanakert, 29th of June 2018
The President of MIFP Giuseppe Eramo
and the Principal of the Quantum College of Yerevan
have signed the Partnership and Collaboration Agreement.
The Ceremony has been attended by
the Minister of Science and Education of Armenia
and Minister of Science, Sport and Education of Artsakh.
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Congratulations to the
Scientific Director of MIFP Professor Alexey Kavokin
with the Honorary Professorship
at the State University of Vladimir (Russia)
PRL has promoted on its front page the work of MIFP Members
Daniele Sanvitto, Dario Ballarini, Fabrice Laussy and Lorenzo Dominici.
The image shows a Bose-Einstein condensate of exciton-polaritons.
The Scientific Director of MIFP
Professor Alexey Kavokin is awarded by
the Honorary Doctorship of the Russian-Armenian University (Erevan, Armenia).
The Award ceremony will take place in Erevan on the 22nd of December 2017.
Professor Alexey Abrikosov
has passed away today, March 30, 2017, at the age of 88.
He will always be remembered as one of the greatest
theoretical physicists of the XXth century.
The Scientific Director of MIFP Prof. Alexey Kavokin,
the Member of MIFP Prof. Alexey Ustinov
and 8 other leading Russian researchers have been received
in Kremlin by the President Vladimir Putin.
www.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/52916
Congratulations to the members of MIFP Bernard Gil and Anvar Zakhidov
who won the prestigious Megagrants of the Government of Russian Federation.
MIFP - QUANTUM COLLEGE AGREEMENT
It is a pleasure to announce that
the President of M.I.F.P. Dr. Giuseppe Eramo and
the Director of the Quantum College Dr. Robert Vartanian
have signed the COOPERATION AGREEMENT between the two Institutions.
This Agreement will help developing links of partnership, stimulate training and research visits, guest lecturing program and organisation of international events sponsored by both Institutions.
The Member of MIFP Mr. Nikita Kavokine
has published his research on the
"Light-Driven Transport of a Liquid Marble with and against Surface Flows"
in the prestigeous Angewandte Chemie
Recent highlighted publication of the Members of MIFP
"Towards a feasible implementation of quantum neural networks using quantum dots"
Mikhail V. Altaisky, Nadezhda N. Zolnikova, Natalia E. Kaputkina,Victor A. Krylov,Yurii E. Lozovik, and Nikesh S. Dattani
Applied Physics Letters,108, 103108 (2016); doi: 10.1063/1.4943622
"Spin–orbit coupling of light in asymmetric microcavities"
L. B. Ma, S. L. Li, V. M. Fomin, M. Hentschel, J. B. Götte, Y. Yin, M. R. Jorgensen, O. G. Schmidt
Nature Communications 7, Article number: 10983 doi:10.1038/ncomms10983
Havana, February 2, 2016
The Member of Scientific Council of MIFP Prof. Andrey Varlamov receives the
Distinction for Teaching and Research from the
Minister of Science and Education of Russian Federation Dmitry Livanov.
Quantum physicists from MIFP unravel the secret of roulette
Since the early XVIIIth century roulette is one of the most popular, most elegant and most dangerous gambling games. An ideal roulette always wins against any gambler, if the game continues indefinitely. All winning strategies fail at sufficiently long time scales.
Nevertheless, there are professional roulette players who make good money playing roulette on an every day basis. What is their secret? How a human being may outplay the most perfect mathematical machine?
It their recent publication, the physicists from MIFP
Alexey Kavokin, Alexandra Sheremet and
Mikhail Petrov
present a theory of a realistic non-ideal roulette where probabilities of realisations of different numbers slightly deviate. They propose a simple strategy that exploits the non-ideality of the roulette and makes its expected return positive for the gambler.
For more details see Bunching of numbers in a non-ideal roulette: the key to winning strategies
Congratulations to Andrey Varlamov and Attilio Rigamonti for the
Grand PrixRoberval 2015.
Two Members of MIFP has received this prestigious award for their book entitled
"Le kaléidoscope de la physique".
The article "Enhanced thermoelectric coupling near eletronic phase transition: The role of fluctuation Cooper pairs"
by the Members of MIFP H. Ouerdane, A. A. Varlamov and A. V. Kavokin
has been published as a Rapid Communication in Physical Review B
The 16th International Conference on the Physics of Light-Matter Coupling
has been organized by MIFP and the University of Antioquia
in Medellin (Colombia), from 3 to 8 of February 2015
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The article "Dispersion characteristics of electromagnetic excitations in a disordered one-dimensional lattice of coupled microresonators"
by the Member of MIFP Dr. V.V. Rumyantsev
has been published on Physica B
The President of MIFP is happy to announce that
the mythic Max Bar and Brasserie
is opening the 8th of December 2014
at N40 Oxford Street, Southampton, UK.
Max offers generous discounts to All Members of MIFP!
Max Bar is the only place in the World where you can order the M.I.F.P. cocktail.
Members of MIFP
Vladimir Rumyantsev and Alexey Kavokin
have published a paper of exciton-like electromagentic excitations
in Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing group).
This prestigeous publication is affiliated to MIFP!
A Historic Experiment Redesigned
MIFP Members Sven Hoefling and Alexey Kavokin
discuss in Nature the remarkable new observation by the group from Dortmund: giant Rydberg excitons with the size as large as 2 micrometers have been observed in transmission spectra of natural crystals of copper oxide. This experiment redesignes the historic experiment of 1952 which allowed Evgenii Gross and Nury Karryjew to observe Wannier-Mott excitons for the first time.
The Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to
I. Akasaki, H. Amano and S. Nakamura
for the development of blue Light Emitting Diodes based on GaN.
While the revolutionary technological advances in this area have been made in Japan in 1980s-1990s, the fundamental properties of GaN based heterostructures have been thoroughfully studied in Europe by MIFP Members.
Bernard Gil (CNRS, Montpellier, France) was one of the first to fully appreciate importance of wurtzitic crystals for semiconductor lighting. In his seminal papers:
In 1998, together with Alexey Kavokin, Bernard has proposed GaN-based microcavities for strong coupling applications:
Celebrating the Nobel Prize of Akasaki-Nakamura-Amano we also pay tribute to the important contributions of Bernard and his colleagues to the research on group III nitrides.
Bernard Gil (CNRS, Montpellier, France) was one of the first to fully appreciate importance of wurtzitic crystals for semiconductor lighting. In his seminal papers:
- "Internal structure and oscillator strengths of excitons in strained alpha-GaN", (B. Gil and O. Briot, Phys. Rev. B55, 2530 (1997))
- "Optical anisotropy of excitons in strained GaN epilayers grown along the [10(1)over-bar-0] direction", (B. Gil and A.Alemu, Phys. Rev. B56, 12446 (1997))
- "Valence-band physics and the optical properties of GaN epilayers grown onto sapphire with wurtzite symmetry", (Bernard Gil, Olivier Briot, and Roger-Louis Aulombard, Phys. Rev. B 52, R17028(R) (1995))
In 1998, together with Alexey Kavokin, Bernard has proposed GaN-based microcavities for strong coupling applications:
- "GaN microcavities: Giant Rabi splitting and optical anisotropy"
(A. Kavokin and B. Gil, Appl. Phys. Lett., 72, 2880 (1998))
- "Room temperature polariton lasing in semiconductor microcavities"
(S. Christopoulos et al , Phys.Rev. Lett., 98, 126405 (2007))
Celebrating the Nobel Prize of Akasaki-Nakamura-Amano we also pay tribute to the important contributions of Bernard and his colleagues to the research on group III nitrides.
MIFP congratulates
Profs. Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura with the
Nobel Prize for Physics 2014!
Many of us have strong collaboration links with the present Nobel winners.
The joint publication of MIFP members
Tatiana Shubina and Alexey Kavokin with Professor Amano on
Mie resonances, infrared emission and bandgap of InN can be found here »
Here is the text of the chess game played by the world champion GM Magnus Carlsen
and 2nd in ELO rating GM Levon Aronian (Whites, making moves one after another)
against Alexey Kavokin (Black)
at the Tatev monastery (Armenia) on the 23rd of June 2014.
Visual degradation in Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic self-portrait:
A nanoscale study
A. Mosca Conte, O. Pulci, M. C. Misiti, J. Lojewska,
L. Teodonio, C. Violante, and M. Missori
The discoloration of ancient paper, due to the development of oxidized groups acting as chromophores in its chief component, cellulose, is responsible for severe visual degradation in ancient artifacts. By adopting a non-destructive approach based on the combination of optical reflectance measurements and time-dependent density functional theory ab-initio calculations, we describe and quantify the chromophores affecting Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic self-portrait. Their relative concentrations are very similar to those measured in modern and ancient samples aged in humid environments. This analysis quantifies the present level of optical degradation of the Leonardo da Vinci’s self-portrait which, compared with future measurements, will assess its degradation rate. This is a fundamental information in order to plan appropriate conservation strategies.
The outcomes of this research are published on Appl. Phys. Lett., 104, 224101 (2014).
Press-conference of the President of MIFP Giuseppe Eramo
and the Scientific Director of MIFP Alexey Kavokin
with the Nobel Prize George Fitzgerald Smoot
at the G-Global Economic Forum in Astana, May 23, 2014.
"Theory of Optically Active
Imperfect Composite Materials"
A new book, edited by the Member of MIFP
Professor Vladimir Rumyantsev
and by S. Fedorov and by K. Gumennyk.
The Award Ceremony of MIFP will take place
at the lecture hall of the Grand Hotel Helio Cabala (Marino) on the 5th of April at 16.00
It will be followed by
The Inaugural Lecture of Professor Andrey Varlamov entitled
"Forty years in physics: long way from charge transfer in Liquid He to quantum fluctuations in superconductors"
All Members of MIFP are invited to the Ceremony, Lecture and the Banquet of MIFP
in a Honor of Professor Varlamov.
Take a look to the Photo Gallery »
"Physics of Quantum Rings"
The Member of MIFP Professor Vladimir Fomin
has published a book on Quantum Rings.
On November 30th at the Meijo University of Nagoya, Japan,
the Member of MIFP Doctor Bernard GIL (sitting right at the first row)
Director of Research at CNRS, University of Montpellier 2, France
and Bo MONEMAR,
Professor at the University of Linköping, Sweden (sitting left at the first row)
have been awarded
Doctor Honoris Causa of the Faculty of Technology at the Meijo University
Nagoya Japan.
These nominations have been initiated by Professor Isamu AKASAKI (center at the second row), the inventor of several advanced growth processes for improving the growth, the purification and the doping of semiconductors and the inventor of the blue light emitting diode based on nitride semiconductors.
At the second Row, from left to right are respectively standing
Professor Shigeru FUKUSHIMA
vice-President Director of the International Affairs at the Meijo University
Professor Toshiharu NAKANE
President of the Meijo University
Professor Isamu AKASAKI
Professor Akiyoshi KOBAYASHI
vice President of the Meijo University, Fellow of the Japanese Society for Precision engineering
Professor Koichi YOSHIHISA
Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology, Meijo university.
These Doctoris Causa nominations award
"the exceptional and determinental contributions of Professor Bo Monemar and Doctor Bernard Gil to the optical properties of nitride strained-layer heterostructures".
The first Polariton Laser with electric injection has been realised by MIFP Members
Sven Hoefling, Ivan Shelykh and collaborators.
This discovery is discusses in the Science News by Alexey Kavokin
www.sciencenews.org/article/low-energy-laser-makes-leap-toward-practicality
Alexey Kavokin giving lectures at the University of Vladimir,
the project funded by the Dynasty Foundation.
The mistery of magnetic orientation of migratory birds
is addressed in the groundbreaking paper of the MIFP Member Dr. Kirill Kavokin.
Read the Paper »
Sun is a source of dark matter: positrons were found in Sun flares.
Read about the new discoveries of the Member of MIFP
Professory Grigory Fleishman at
"Physics of Quantum Fluids"
A new book, edited by the Member of MIFP Alberto Bramati
and by Michele Modugno.
MIFP Member has become a Professor of Skoltech:
Congratulations to Dr. Natalia Berloff who has been appointed a
Full Professor and Vice-Dean of Energy at the Skolkovo Institute of Technology (Skoltech).
The article "Why the Expansion of the Universe Appears to Accelerate"
by the Member of MIFP Dr. Paul Smeulders
has been published by the Journal of Modern Physics.
The article "Model of a GaAs Quantum Dot Embedded in a Polymorph AlGaAs Nanowire"
by the Member of MIFP Dr. Daniele Barettin
has been published by the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics.
The Templeton Foundation supports projects in Fundamental Physics.
For details see: Templeton Foundation Mission »
MIFP congratulates Dr. Henni Ouerdane whose work on
"Optimal working conditions for thermoelectric generators
with realistic thermal coupling"
published in Europhysics Letters has been selected as one of the Highlights 2012.
"Dynamical Symmetries For Nanostructures"
A monograph written by the Member of MIFP Mikhail Kiselev
and by K. Kikoin and Y. Avishai.
Congratulations to Alexey Kavokin who has been awarded by the
Established Career Fellowship of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council of the United Kingdom!
Professor Ruben Seisyan has published a review paper summarizing 65 years of research on
diamagnetic excitons and magneto-polaritons
The new results on the high temperature superconductor LaCuO have been published by the Member of MIFP Professor Antonio Bianconi in the prestigeous Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.
Optimum inhomogeneity of local lattice distortions in La2CuO4+y.
"Exciton Polaritons in Microcavities: New Frontiers"
A new book, edited by the Member of MIFP Daniele Sanvitto.
"Quantum Dots: Optics, Electron Transport and Future Applications"
A new book, edited by the Member of MIFP Alexander Tartakovskii, with reviews on latest results in quantum dot research.
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