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SUMMARY:IMX Seminar Series - Long-ranged coherence in quantum materials: t
 he search for stable electronic waves
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Philip Moll\, EPFL\, Switzerland\nQuantum mechanical ele
 ctron waves in a metal\, quite like the everyday waves in a cup of tea\, a
 re governed by the size and shape of the vessel containing them. By contro
 lling the shape of metals on the sub-micron scale\, one can strongly influ
 ence their electronic properties and thereby achieve new functionality. Th
 e fabrication method we develop here at EPFL is a procedure based on Focus
 ed Ion Beam machining. As grown crystallites or particles are etched by a 
 tightly focused beam of ions\, which locally evaporates the crystal\, leav
 ing behind a sample of desired shape. I will review two recent application
 s of this concept to the transport of highly anisotropic metals in the bal
 listic limit\, and nanostructured heavy-fermion superconductors and their 
 applications in quantum information technology.\nBio: “Philip Moll recei
 ved his Ph.D. in physics in 2012 at ETH Zurich\, with a focus on iron-base
 d high-temperature superconductors and their potential for high magnetic f
 ield applications. As a change in research directions\, he joined the grou
 p of James Analytis at UC Berkeley to work on materials with topological b
 and structure defects\, such as Dirac- and Weyl-semi-metals. During that t
 ime\, his research demonstrated the existence of a novel quantum process\,
  the Weyl quantum oscillation. Based on these results\, he successfully co
 mpeted for an Independent Max-Planck Research Group (IMPRG) in 2016 at the
  Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden\, Germany\, and attra
 cted an ERC Starting Project to focus onto topological matter. Since 2018 
 he is a tenure-track assistant professor at EPFL at the Institute of Mater
 ials\, where he particularly explores materials for quantum applications.
 ”
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