Ataç Imamoğlu has been awarded his third ERC Advanced Grant. The project aims to demonstrate a new type of superconductivity in atomically thin materials, in which electrons pair up through their mutual repulsion.
Using only a laser pulse, the group and collaborators at the University of Basel flipped the polarity of a topological ferromagnet in twisted MoTe2 bilayers, without heating the material. The results were published in Nature.