Welcome to the webpage of the MEPS group led by Dario Bercioux. We are interested in the properties of mesoscopic systems of electrons and photons and in their mutual interaction.
We are based at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) in the beautiful city of Donostia-San Sebastián located in the northern part of Spain.
Our research is not supported by any Military Agency
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A new manuscript by Miguel A., and Dario has been accepted for publication in Communications Physics. We have studied a two-dimensional wallpaper group lattice under the action of several perturbations that can break the lattice symmetrues. Specifically, we look at the herringbone lattice; we have shown that by playing with the onsite energies and the hopping dimerization, it is possible to tune the position of the lattice Dirac cone within the first Brillouin zone. You can read it HERE . |
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The first manuscript by Minh and Dario, coauthors from San Sebastian, Daejeon and Lyon, has been uploaded to the repository. We study the topological properties of a synthetic photonic crystal platform. We have investigated semi-Dirac points and Fermi arc reconstruction. You can read it HERE . |
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Eusebio Jesus Rodríguez Fernández (University of Sevilla) will visit the group for one month. Eusebio will investigate spin dynamics in curved spaces. Welcome, Eusebio! |
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Carolina Martinez Strasser has joined the group as a graduate student; Carolina will investigate non-Hermitian physics in bosonic and fermionic systems. Welcome, Carolina! |
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A new manuscript by Dario and coauthors from San Sebastian and Sevilla has been uploaded to the repository. We study the transport and spectral properties of semiconducting rings in the presence of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. In the work we have used the quantum network technique we have for spin transport we developed a few years back. You can read it HERE . |
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Carolina Martinez Strasser defended successfully her master thesis, congratulations! She will start right away with a Ph.D. in our group working on the same topic. |
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17th Capri Spring School on "New trends in electron interferometry"
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Dr. Anastasiia Skurativska has joined the group as a postdoctoral fellow; she will investigate non-conventional superconductivity in collaboration with Miguel A. Cazalilla and Sebastian Bergeret. Welcome, Anastasiia! |
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The new manuscript by Miguel A., Maria and Dario has been published in the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. We study the electromagnetic energy density in the real space of a photonic crystal. We correlate with the position of the maximally localized Wannier functions so as predicted by topological quantum chemistry — a great collaboration with colleagues from the University of Lisbon, Purdue University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. You can read it HERE . |
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Dr. Camillo Tassi has joined the group as a postdoctoral fellow; he will investigate analogue quantum simulators in collaboration with Miguel A. Cazalilla. Welcome, Camillo! |
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Maria Blanco de Paz defended her dissertation and earned a Ph.D. with full marks! Congratulations, Maria, and thanks for the past years together! |
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We have a new manuscript by Miguel A., Maria and Dario accepted for publication in Physical Review B. The work presents an in-depth analysis of the properties of the breathing kagome lattice. We show that the system is not a higher-order topological insulator — a great collaboration with colleagues from Utrecht University. You can read it HERE . |
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Minh Nguyen has joined the group as a graduate student; he will investigate moiré physics. Welcome, Minh! |
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Carolina Martinez has joined the group as a master's student; she will investigate topological non-Hermitian lattice physics. Welcome, Carolina! |
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The manuscript coauthored by Dario on a proposal for a THz detector based on a defected metallic carbon-nanotube has been accepted for publication in Applied Physics Review (2021) — a great collaboration with colleagues from all around the world. You can read it here . |