In the beginning of the year, right after the holiday, I joined the seminar on magnetism in Physikzentrum. The building is very elegant with high ceiling and big almost like a castle. It also has a cozy celler, where everyone can relax and discuss while having a few drinks in the evening. The seminar was …
2024 Begins!
Happy new year everyone. From mid-December 2023 till the new year, I had good time for travelling and having relaxing moment at home. I travelled to beatiful places in Austria as well as the capital of Slovakia, Bratislava. In Austria, the weather was exceptioanlly warm for winter. I felt quite strange, but it was quite …
Berry phase effects!?
In the last few days, I had a chance to think about some fundamental aspects of Berry phase and related transport phenomena. What triggered me is the ICMAB school on orbital currents, where I explained how the orbital-dependent emergent gauge field appears in the theoretical description. Also, at last, I am finalizing the manuscript on …
School on Orbital Currents in Barcelona
Soon after I returned back to Germany from the trip to Korea, I went to another trip to Barcelona. I joined the School on Orbital Currents in ICMAB as one of the lectureres. My lecture slides can be downloaded from the following link. The other lecturers were Tatiana G. Rappoport (Uni Rio de Janeiro), Enric …
Trip to Korea (Part 4: Busan and Return trip)
After the orbitronics workshop, I moved to Busan to participate in the Korean Magnetics Society meeting for the winter of 2023, where I also gave an invited talk. This time, because the audience was broad, I presented an overview on orbitronics, my own reconstruction of the development of the field. I think my talk went …
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Trip to Korea (Part 3: Orbitronics Workshop)
After spending time at POSTECH, I spend the weekend with my parents. We had nice time together, and it was time for me to relax a bit. Of course, I tried to eat as many nice home made dishes as possible. Since my suitcases arrived, I was able to give them all the good from …
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Trip to korea (Part 2: POSTECH)
The first destination for the trip to Korea was POSTECH to visit my former PhD supervisor (Hyun-Woo Lee) and his group. I gave two talks in seminars, one in each day. The first talk was for general audience to introduce what orbitronics is, what are scientifically important questions, and how we are trying to solve …
Trip to Korea (Part 1: Onward journey)
In November, I visited Korea for a business trip, for which I combined three different occasions to make best use of the trip because it is not so close from Germany and it takes quite some physical effort to get used to jetlag. I also took a chance to bring lots of goods from Germany …
Making a Korean dish (잡채; Jap-Chae)
One of the nice things about working at home is that I can make a nice dish on my own, although it is not easy to motivate myself. Sometimes I get tired of repeating menus at the cafeteria at the reserach center, where the menus are slightly different everyday, but in my opinion, they all …
Vacation in France & Home Office
From the end of September, I spent two weeks of vacation in France with family. We stayed in the French Alps in the area close to "Gap". We explored different vallies, hiked around them, and spent very good time there. The best part was that I was able to see beautiful mountains everyday from the …
Spintronics, Orbitronics, and Physics Beyond 