The graphic illustrates the interplay between topology (blue ring) and strong correlation (electron spins; coloured arrows on the square grid). This is what the Würzburg Collaborative Research Centre ToCoTronics is all about. (Image: Jörg Schäfer / Universität Würzburg)
05/23/2019 - A great success for Würzburg's physics department: its Collaborative Research Centre was rated as excellent and is now entering its second funding phase. The German Research Foundation is providing 12 million euros for this purpose. In 2015, physicists at Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg in Bavaria, Germany, succeeded in establishing a new Collaborative Research Centre in Würzburg. The German Research Foundation (DFG) provided around 11 million euros for this purpose. The money went into research into topological materials - this class of materials is characterised by very unusual properties. It is being studied intensively worldwide because it promises novel applications in information technology and other fields. Now the Collaborative Research Centre (in short SFB for "Sonderforschungsbereich") was to be evaluated according to plan.
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