Science top 10
Study on the natural geometry of fragmentation, by our colleague János Török and his coauthors, is selected by Science as one of their 10 favorite science news stories in 2020.
Quantum bits in carbon nanotubes
One step toward telecom-compatible quantum communication: new experimental results from the BME Spin Spectroscopy research group published in ACS Nano.
Péter Makk in the HAS news
News portal of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences covers research results of Péter Makk (Institute of Physics), as one of the most successful recent recipients of the Bolyai Scholarship.
Cubes
In their new paper, János Török and his colleagues provide support for the ancient idea of Plato that on Earth, "everything is built up from cubes". Also covered by index.hu.
Publication prizes in the Institute of Physics
Two of the publication prizes of BME and the Pro Progressio Foundation were awarded to papers authored by researchers in the Institute of Physics, published in Nature Communications and Nature Materials.
The Yu-Shiba-Rusinov state
BME physicists find an unexpectedly large extension of the Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) state in a superconducting nanostructure, a result which paves the way toward topologically protected qubits.
New information on the coronavirus
This communique contains the steps taken by the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
Fulbright U.S. Scholarship holder at the Department of Stochastics
Timothy O'Brien, Professor in Statistics at Loyola University Chicago was awarded the Fulbright U.S. Scholarship to stay at the Department of Stochastics, BME in the fall semester 2020.