Projects

International

Conductance of disordered mesoscopic conductor obtained from many-body calculation of electronic structures
Program: FP6
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Moško Martin, DrSc.
Duration: 1.1.2005 – 31.12.2005

National

ROTOLES – Optimalizovaný rast a transportné a optické vlastnosti tenkých vrstiev vybraných topologických polokovov
Optimised growth and the transport and optical properties of thin layers of selected topological semimetals
Program: SRDA
Project leader: Dr. rer. nat. Hulman Martin
Annotation: One of the fundamental results of quantum mechanics in the 1920s was the derivation of relativistic equations formassive fermions (Dirac), massless fermions (Weyl) and fermions that are themselves antiparticles (Majorana).Since those times, particle physics has been searching for particles representing Weyl and Majorana\’s fermions.However, their search has not yet been successful.In the last twenty years, it has been shown that the band structure of some materials has such uniquecharacteristics that the charge carriers in them can behave according to the dynamics satisfying the Dirac or Weylrelativistic equations. Such materials include compounds from the group of transition metals dichalcogenides,which we will focus on in our project.We will work with very thin layers of selected materials from this group, such as PtSe2, MoTe2 and WTe2. The firststep in the implementation of the project will be the preparation of such layers by chalcogenisation of thin films oftransition metals. Their transport and optical properties will then be thoroughly investigated. Temperaturedependent transport measurements can show us transitions between different structures of the same material. We expect that a metal-insulator transition can be observed when the thickness of such thin films is varied. Some ofthese materials can go into a superconducting state at very low temperatures. We will also try to induce this state inclose proximity, i.e. when the thin layer is in contact with another superconductor.Optical measurements will be correlated with transport measurements. We derive essential frequency-dependentcharacteristics, such as optical conductivity, from the latter. We will look for characteristics theoretically predictedfor Dirac and Weyl fermions in the optical conductivity.
Duration: 1.7.2024 – 30.6.2027
Teoretické štúdium vodivosti a perzistentných prúdov v nízkorozmerných mezoskopických systémoch: Vplyv interakcie, disorderu a pásovej štruktúry
Theoretical study of conductance and persistent currents in low-dimensional mesoscopic systems: effects of interaction, disorder, and band structure
Program: VEGA
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Moško Martin, DrSc.
Duration: 1.1.2014 – 31.12.2016
Transport elektrónových a elektromagnetických vĺn v malých systémoch
Transport of electron and electromagnetic waves in small systems
Program: VEGA
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Moško Martin, DrSc.
Duration: 1.1.2009 – 31.12.2011
Koherencia, dekoherencia a neusporiadanosť v kovových a supravodivých systémoch
Coherence, decoherence and disorder in metallic and superconducting systems
Program: SRDA
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Moško Martin, DrSc.
Duration: 1.5.2006 – 1.5.2009
Elektrón-elektrónová interakcia a koherentný elektrónový transport v mezoskopických drôtoch a prstencoch
Electron-electron interaction and coherent electron transport in mesoscopic wires and rings
Program: VEGA
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Moško Martin, DrSc.
Duration: 1.1.2006 – 31.12.2008