News from FZU

The situation in Ukraine remains serious and there are many opportunities to get involved in helping its citizens. Among other things, we have prepared an online form in order to connect those interested in providing help with people who need it. In this context, we have recently hired or are currently hiring several new employees from Ukraine at FZU. The Social Fund of the FZU then offers all employees other possibilities of financial assistance, which can be used for employees and their families who have been directly affected by the conflict in Ukraine. On March 16 in the afternoon, a second aid stand took place in front of the Optics building. Those interested met with the coordinators of activities aimed at helping Ukraine and could ask them questions.

Scientists from the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences in collaboration with their Korean colleagues successfully demonstrated an experiment to create and destroy solitons with non-integer charge. They achieved this by using electrical pulses from the tip of a scanning microscope. The new procedure is an important step in the development of quantum computers based on solitons. The result was published in the Nature Nanotechnology journal.