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The Department of Condensed Matter Physics has expanded with a new research group, Quantum Information and Thermodynamics, led by Ing. Dominik Šafránek, Ph.D. The group, funded by two prestigious grant — Primus and Junior Star—will focus on developing a novel…
The Charles University Grant Agency has published the final evaluations of its funded projects. We are pleased to share that the project ‘Electrical and magnetic properties of rare-earth iridates under extreme conditions’ (no. 148622), solved by Mgr. Daniel Staško, Ph.D.,…
Theory department members contributed to a complex DFT-based study of the van der Waals magnetic material VI₃, revealing how its specific easy axis direction is linked to lattice distortions and exceptionally high orbital momentum. The obtained solution has specific electronic…
In the term of 14th - 17th July 2025 the UAAT-ICU Workshop: International Taiwan–Czech Event on Research, Innovation, and Education takes place in Prague, Czech Republic. This workshop marks significant moment in the growing scientific collaboration between the Czech Republic and…
The annual Scientific Members Meeting of the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL; Grenoble, France) took place in Paris on 19th June 2025. The main topics of the agenda included recent scientific and technical developments at the ILL, covering the advancement of experimental…
Researchers from the groups of Klára Uhlířová and Tim Verhagen have become the first to discover moiré ferroelectricity in single crystals of chalcogenides with incommensurate crystal structures. The phenomenon was first identified during the work on a bachelor thesis, though…
Last Saturday, there was a Garden party organized by our group head Ross Colman for (not only) our department colleagues in Tuchotice yard. This already traditional meeting complements our friendly collective relationship on more informal basis and brings more open…
In last months we have succeeded in implementation of a new experimental method - measurement of structural parameters upon application of high pressure. This method uses the commercially bought diamond anvil pressure cell (DAC) from Almax easyLab bv company in…
The Bernard Bolzano Endowment Fund Prize was awarded to Michal Vališka on March 12, 2025, for his outstanding contributions in research of unconventional superconductor UTe₂. This recognition follows the publication of key findings in PNAS, Nature Communications, and other high-impact…
On Monday 27th January 2025, our PhD student Daniel Staško successfully defended his doctoral thesis, completing his study cascade at our department and faculty. His research path began in 2017 within the student faculty project and was followed by his…
