A multimethod investigation of 2D boron sheet – i.e. borophene – on the surface of iridium is reported in a new paper by our colleagues from the SIMAT group with PhD student Sherif Kamal as the lead author. The study, published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, highlights the nanomodulated properties of epitaxial borophene which acts as an electron diffraction grating.

In a recent paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, our colleague Ivor Krešić described a new method of generating quantum entanglement between ultracold atoms, based on self-organization in optical resonators laser-pumped to a state out of thermodynamic equilibrium

In a paper published in the Physical Review X, our colleague Nina Girotto contributed to the international collaborative research to quantify the comparison of controversial approaches to calculating the self-energy of phonons by downfolding the problem to effective low-energy systems. This work settles a heated debate about which formulation is more appropriate in a first-principles context.

Nina Girotto and Dino Novko published a paper in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, where they theoretically examined intriguing consequences of a photo-excited electron distribution on phonons in graphene

Our colleagues Branko Gumhalter and Dino Novko have published a monograph in a special volume of the journal Progress in Surface Science in which they had developed complementary perturbative and non-perturbative treatments of plasmonically induced electron emission from flat metal surfaces