Gregor Jotzu
About
Magnets stick to the fridge. Glass is transparent. The brushes made of graphite conduct electricity inside the motor in a washing machine. All these materials have very different but very reliable properties. But they consist of trillions of trillions of atoms interacting with each other and we need to use quantum theory to understand them. Why do such complex systems often behave so simple and ordered? How, and how fast, does such order form? Gregor Jotzu’s research uses lasers to shine light on these questions. Using short flashes of light, Jotzu’s lab investigates how quantum systems become ordered in real time.
Awards
- General Physics Prize, Swiss Physical Society, 2015
- QStarter Innovation Award, National Centre of Competence in Research QSIT, 2013
- Michael von Clemm Fellowship, Michael and Louisa Von Clemm Foundation, 2009
- Fellow, German Academic Scholarship Foundation, 2007
- Scholar, Corpus Christi College Oxford, 2006
Relevant Publications
- Fava, S., De Vecchi, G., Jotzu, G., Buzzi, M., Gebert, T., Liu, Y., ... & Cavalleri, A. (2024). Magnetic field expulsion in optically driven YBa2Cu3O6. 48. Nature, 632(8023), 75-80. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07635-2
- McIver, J. W., Schulte, B., Stein, F. U., Matsuyama, T., Jotzu, G., Meier, G., & Cavalleri, A. (2020). Light-induced anomalous Hall effect in graphene. Nature Physics, 16(1), 38-41. DOI: 10.1038/s41567-019-0698-y
- Jotzu, G., Messer, M., Desbuquois, R., Lebrat, M., Uehlinger, T., Greif, D., & Esslinger, T. (2014). Experimental realization of the topological Haldane model with ultracold fermions. Nature, 515(7526), 237-240. DOI: 10.1038/nature13915