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The long article by Jasper van der Veen, supervised by Filip Meysman, Herre van der Zant, and myself, on electron transport in cable bacteria - which, in particular, shows that at low temperature one sees quantum behavior - is now published by ACS Nano, pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Congratulations to Miriam.

Samuel Mañas-Valero and Toeno van der Sar, together with Rembert Duine and Bart van Wees, put a nice perspective on arXiv today on magnonics in 2D van der Waals magnets. They mainly cover injection and detection of magnons: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.14979

🎉 Congratulations to LiedewijLaan and Toeno van der Sar who both received an European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant! They will research robustness of functions in cells and spin-wave devices with superconductors, respectively. More information 👉 edu.nl/m4pad #physics

Congratulations to Álvaro who went on to pursue a PhD at our department.

Gerd, in addition to what was said and will still be said about him, was also a professor in Delft in the early 1990s, and together with Hans Mooij he shaped the quantum community in the Netherlands. He also is one of a few people who made me who I am now.

Congratulations Maurits Houmes (and promotors Peter Steeneken and Herre van der Zant) with the successful PhD defense. It was great working with you and good that you stay in academia and will be around.

Thanks to the editors of the roadmap, Dr. Antonija Grubišić-Čabo Marcos Guimaraes Zeila Zanolli David Soriano . There is a contribution there by Maurits Houmes, Herre van der Zant, and myself on the mechanical detection of magnetic phase transitions: arxiv.org/abs/2412.18020

Last year, I had an excellent generation of master students, and the papers now start to appear. We begin with Enes Ilbuğa: Here is the article by him, Viatcheslav Dobrovitski, and myself on emission of magnons with zero linewidth using the Heitler effect: arxiv.org/abs/2501.01254

Congratulations to Thijs van Gogh and his promotor Kobus Kuipers with the successful - and very well deserved - PhD defense. I was happy to serve as the second promotor.

Congratulations to Mattias Matthiesen and his promotor Andrea Caviglia with the successful PhD defense. It was a great thesis and a pretty convincing defense. I was happy to serve as the second promotor.

Using two Silicon Nitride membranes inside a Fabry-Pérot cavity can enhance optomechanical coupling strength nearly four-fold under specific conditions. Read the paper: go.aps.org/4hgAKRK #Optomechanics

Herre van der Zant Faculteit TNW / Faculty of Applied Sciences talks on ‚Interfering electron waves in single-molecule junction‘ #Marcels60Symposium #MM60 University of Basel

Álvaro Bermejillo-Seco posted our article on arXiv, which is based on his master thesis and part of Xiang Zhang's PhD thesis and explains how one can model damping in 2D membranes close to a phase transition (with FePS3 as an example): arxiv.org/abs/2502.02987

An exciting start to the year! Our latest work on localized plasmon resonances in twisted WS₂ flakes is now published! Huge congratulations to Abel, who will soon defend his PhD! 🎉👏🏻 #2Dmaterials #EdgePlasmons #ProudSupervisor Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Samuel Mañas-Valero, Toeno van der Sar, Rembert Duine, and Bart van Wees just published the perspective on magnons in 2D van der Waals magnets, mostly covering their generation and detection: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Rob den Teuling put on arXiv his first paper in which we derive (semi)-analytical expressions for magnon spectra in mono- and bilayers of a 2D van der Waals layered antiferromagnet CrSBr: arxiv.org/abs/2502.20797

Excited to share our new article on TU Delft , Universitat València & NUS breakthrough nanodrum research on 2D nanomaterials. Ata Keşkekler, Yaroslav M. Blanter, Maciej Koperski and team. engineeringness.com/study-reveals-… #Nanotech

Vinicius Hernandes and the Greplová Group put an article on arXiv on how one can detect phase transitions by looking at patterns of weights of neural quantum states approximating wave functions: arxiv.org/abs/2503.17140

Ritesh Das put our latest manuscript on spin wave spectra in a 2D van der Waals antiferromagnet NiPS3 on arXiv today, arxiv.org/abs/2504.20540