Jasper van Wezel - homepage


Jasper van Wezel - homepage
University of Amsterdam Institute of Physics Postbus 94485 1090 GL Amsterdam The Netherlands	Science Park 904 room C4.265 Email: physics@jvanwezel.com
I am an associate professor in Condensed Matter Theory at the University of Amsterdam. I do research in theoretical condensed matter physics at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITFA) within the Institute of Physics. Look here for the complete list of research highlights, my full CV, my list of presentations, and my list of publications.

Current Calendar

Recent Publications

"Ultrafast formation of topological defects in a 2D charge density wave"
Yun Cheng, Alfred Zong, Lijun Wu, Qingping Meng, Wei Xia, Fengfeng Qi, Pengfei Zhu, Xiao Zou, Tao Jiang, Yanfeng Guo, Jasper van Wezel, Anshul Kogar, Michael W. Zuerch, Jie Zhang, Yimei Zhu, and Dao Xiang
arXiv, 2211.05748 (2022)
arXiv:2211.05748
"Quantum state reduction of general initial states through spontaneous unitarity violation"
Aritro Mukherjee, Srinivas Gotur, Jelle Aalberts, Rosa van den Ende, Lotte Mertens, and Jasper van Wezel
arXiv, 2301.03233 (2023)
arXiv:2301.03233
"Anisotropic optics and gravitational lensing of tilted Weyl fermions"
Viktor Könye, Lotte Mertens, Corentin Morice, Dmitry Chernyavsky, Ali G. Moghaddam, Jasper van Wezel, Jeroen van den Brink
arXiv, 2210.16145 (2022)
arXiv:2210.16145

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Recent Highlights


Topology with rotational symmetry Although our recent classification of topological crystals predicted the existence of new types of topological phases in materials with rotational symmetries, it did not provide a way of identifying these new phases, nor any of their physical properties. We now complete the picture by proposing a unified method for calculating topological invariants that can diagnose all known types of topology, including the newly predicted ones. It also indicates when these new phases will have excitations localised at either their edges or corners.
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		Born’s rule cannot emerge from linear dynamics We give a theoretical proof that one of the fundamental open problems in physics -how Born’s rule relating quantum dynamics to observed classical probabilities- cannot be solved using linear or unitary theories. As a corollary, we also show that an often-used constructing which seemingly predicts the natural emergence of Born’s rule, in fact contains a logical flaw.
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Topological Bulk-Boundary correspondence in a non-Hermitian metamaterial We demonstrate that a metamaterial of robots holding hands can realise a type of non-Hermitian topological state that has been hard to realise in natural matter. The metamaterial moreover establishes a bulk-boundary correspondence for the new phase, in which a localised mode moves from one side to the other as the robots undergo a topological phase transition.
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