deuar@ifpan.edu.pl

@ http://www.ifpan.edu.pl/~deuar/deuar/index.html

Piotr Deuar is an Associate Professor in the Theoretical Physics Division at IFPAN. He graduated from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, and later obtained his PhD there in 2005 under the supervision of Peter Drummond in the field of ultracold atoms. In the meantime he spent some time working in a small R&D firm in Australia, active in the power distribution sector. He was a postdoc for a year at the University of Amsterdam, working with Misha Baranov in the group of Jook Walraven. He then spent two years on an EU  Marie Curie Individual Fellowship at Universite Paris-sud XI in Orsay, France, working with Gora Shlyapnikov. In 2009, he returned to Poland after 27 years, and has been at IFPAN since then. He has been instrumental in the application of phase space methods to ultracold atoms, including the first simulations of the full quantum dynamics of systems with over 100 000 particles.

He has published about 45 articles, among them 11 Physical Review Letters, and has been PI of six grants, including EU Fellowships. Piotr heads the "Quantum Noise" group, whose principal focus is on simulation of many-body quantum systems using phase-space and semiclassical methods. In recent years, the group has developed a number of cutting edge stochastic approaches for the dynamics of quantum gases. Since October 2019 he has served as the Head of PhD studies at the Institute.

Research interests:

Ultracold atoms, quantum droplets, polariton condensates, development of methods for the simulation of many-body quantum dynamics, phase-space representations, stochastic equations.

Major publications:

Deuar P., Pietraszewicz J., A semiclassical field theory that is freed of the ultraviolet catastrophe, arXiv:1904.06266

Pietraszewicz J., Deuar P., Mesoscopic density grains in a 1D interacting Bose gas from the exact Yang-Yang solution, New J. Phys. 19, 123010 (2017).

Deuar P., A tractable prescription for large-scale free flight expansion of wavefunctions, Comput. Phys. Commun. 208, 92 (2016).

Karpiuk T., Deuar P., Bienias P., Witkowska E., Pawłowski K., Gajda M., Rzążewski K., Brewczyk M., Spontaneous solitons in the thermal equilibrium of a quasi-one-dimensional Bose gas Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 205302 (2012).

Kheruntsyan K.V., Jaskula J-C., Deuar P., Bonneau M., Partridge G.B, Ruaudel. J., Lopes R., Boiron D., Westbrook C.I., Violation of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality with matter waves, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108,

260401 (2012).

Deuar P. and Drummond P. D., Correlations in a BEC collision: First-principles quantum dynamics with 150 000 atoms, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 120402 (2007).

 zalum@ifpan.edu.pl

OrcidID: 0000-0003-0488-8425 ResearcherID: D-6328-2015,

Magdalena Załuska-Kotur is a professor of physics at the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences. She has published about 80 articles, and has been PI of six  grants in the field of surface  science. Her group developed a new analytical approach  to the  collective diffusion and a new  simulation methods  of surface dynamics processes. Since October 2017, she has served as the Deputy Director for Scientific Affairs of the Institute.

Research interests

Statistical mechanics, surface physics, diffusion phenomena, surface pattern formation, nanowires,  classical and quantum correlations, bosonic condensates, fermionic  systems

Major publications:

Popova H., Krzyżewski F.,  Załuska-Kotur M. A.,  Tonchev V., 2020, Quantifying the Effect of Step–Step Exclusion on Dynamically Unstable Vicinal Surfaces: Step Bunching without Macrostep Formation, Crystal Growth & Design 20 (11), 7246-7259.

Pireddu G.,  Pazzona F.G.,  Demontis P., Załuska-Kotur M.A., 2019, Scaling-up Simulations of Diffusion in Microporous Materials,  Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 15 (12), 6931-6943.

Krzyżewski F., Załuska-Kotur M.A., Krasteva A., Popova H.,  Tonchev V., 2019, Scaling and Dynamic Stability of Model Vicinal Surfaces,  Crystal Growth & Design 19 (2), 821-831.

Mińkowski M.,  Załuska-KoturM A., 2018, Collective diffusion of dense adsorbate at surfaces of arbitrary geometry , Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment  (5), 053208.

Kang J.H.,  Krizek F., Załuska-Kotur M.A.,  Krogstrup D.P., Kacman P.,  Beidenkopf H.,  Shtrikman H., 2018. Au-assisted substrate-faceting for inclined nanowire growth,  Nano letters 18, 4115, 8.

 gajda@ifpan.edu.pl

@ http://info.ifpan.edu.pl/ON-5/quantum_gases/

ResearcherID: P-1606-2014,  OrcidID: 0000-0002-5370-9844

Mariusz Gajda is a professor of physics at the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences. He has got PhD in physics from the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences in 1986. He spent two years as the postdoctoral researcher at the Physics Department of the University of Arizona in Tucson and then he worked as the assistant professor at the Center for Theoretical Physics, PAS. Since 1991, he works at the Institute of Physics, PAS. In 2011 he has got the professor title.

Research interests:

Theory of ultracold quantum gases, Bose-Einstein condensates, quantum droplets, dipolar and spinor condensates, correlated quantum systems.

Major publications:

Karpiuk T. et al. (2020) Bistability of Bose-Fermi mixtures, New J. Phys. 22, 103025.

Rakshit D.et al. (2019) Self-bound Bose–Fermi liquids in lower dimensions, New J. Phys. 21, 073027.

Rakshit D. et al. (2019), Quantum Bose-Fermi droplets, SciPost Phys. 6, 079.

Zin P. et al. (2018), Quantum Bose-Bose droplets at a dimensional crossover, Phys. Rev. A 98, 051603(R).

Gajda M. et al.(2016), Single shot imaging of trapped Fermi gas, EPL 115, 20012.

lklopot@ifpan.edu.pl

@ http://www.klopotowski.com/physics

Łukasz Kłopotowski earned his Ph.D. cum laude at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw in 2003. His thesis was devoted to studies of tunneling of excitons between semiconductor quantum wells. He then worked as a postdoc at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, studying properties of exciton polaritons, quasiparticles emerging under strong light-matter coupling. Since 2004 he works at the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Science. Initially, he studied self-assembled quantum dots, investigating the possibility of electrical tuning of their spin state. Recently, his work is centered around tailoring the optical properties of colloidal nanostructures with a view of applications in optoelectronics, photovoltaics, and nanomedicine.

Currently, Łukasz is leading a project on physics and applications of ternary I-III-VI nanocrystals - cadmium-free, less toxic alternatives to well-known cadmium chalcogenide nanocrystals. The project is aimed at revealing the mechanism of light emission in these nanostructures and applying them to photovoltaic devices. Łukasz is also leading investigations of rare-earth doped nanoparticles. The goal of this research is to tailor the up-conversion properties of these nanoparticles by forming hybrids with semiconducting quantum dots or plasmonic nanostructures.

Research interests:

Chemical physics, nanotechnology, optical spectroscopy

Major publications:

Kłopotowski Ł., Mikulski J., Szymura M., Minikayev R., Parlinńska-Wojtan MKazimierczuk., T., Kossut J., Ultraslow Spin Relaxation Dynamics in Colloidal Copper-Doped CdSe Quantum Dots, J. Phys. Chem. C 2020, 124, 1042.

Borodziuk A., Baranowski M., Wojciechowski T., Minikayev R., Sikora B., Maude D. K., Płochocka P., Kłopotowski Ł., Excitation efficiency determines the upcon-version luminescence intensity of β-NaYF4:Er3+,Yb3+ nanoparticles in magnetic fields up to 70 T, Nanoscale 2020, 12, 20300.

Borodziuk A., Kowalik P., Duda M., Wojciechowski T., Minikayev R., Kalinowska D., Klepka M., Sobczak K., Kłopotowski Ł., Sikora B., Unmodified Rose Bengal photosensitizer conjugated with NaYF4:Er,Yb upconverting nanoparticles for efficient photodynamic therapy, Nanotechnology 2020, 31, 465101.

 ewitk@ifpan.edu.pl

@ https://sites.google.com/site/ewiitk/

Emilia Witkowska is a professor of theoretical physics in the field of quantum gases at the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences (IF PAN) in Warsaw. She graduated from the University in Białystok in 2003 with MSc in theoretical physics. She received her PhD in 2007 and Dsc (habilitation) in 2017, both in theoretical physics at the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Emilia Witkowska is the PI for one closed and two ongoing grants on squeezed and entangled states generation with ultra-cold atoms and on the coherence of degenerate gases with long-range interaction. Since December 2020, she serves as the Deputy head of the Division of Theoretical Physics IF PAN.

Research interests:

Ultra-cold atomic quantum gases, spin squeezed and entangled states with ultra-cold-atoms, optical lattices, many-body physics

Major publications:

Płodzień M., Kościelski M., Witkowska E., and Sinatra A., Producing and storing spin-squeezed states and Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states in a one-dimensional optical lattice, Phys. Rev. A 102, 013328 (2020).

Mirkhalaf S. S., Witkowska E., Lepori L., Supersensitive quantum sensor based on criticality in an antiferromagnetic spinor condensate, Phys. Rev. A 101, 043609 (2020).

Benedicto Orenes D., Kowalczyk A. U., Witkowska E., Barontini G., Exploring the thermodynamics of spin-1 87Rb Bose Gases with synthetic magnetization, New J. Phys. 21 043024 (2019).

Niezgoda A., Kajtoch D., Dziekańska J. and Witkowska E., Optimal quantum interferometry robust to detection noise using spin-1 atomic condensates, New J. Phys. 21 093037 (2019).

Kajtoch D., Witkowska E., Sinatra A., Spin-squeezed atomic crystal, EPL 123, 20012 (2018).

 rozycki@ifpan.edu.pl

@ http://www.ifpan.edu.pl/sdvs/en/on5.html  

In November 2006, Bartosz Różycki obtained his PhD in physics from the University of Warsaw, Poland. He was a Marie-Curie Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany, and at the National Institutes of Health, USA. His scientific mentors were Thomas Weikl, Reinhard Lipowsky and Gerhard Hummer. In November 2012, he was appointed an assistant professor at the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences. In June 2018 he obtained habilitation in physics. Bartosz Różycki has been the PI on three research grants: two of them supported by the National Science Center and one by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. 

Research interests: 

Theoretical and computational biophysics of molecular, macromolecular and subcellular systems, in particular: conformational transitions of multi-domain proteins with intrinsically disordered regions; ensemble refinement methods based on low resolution and/or sparse data; membrane remodelling and membrane curvature generation; formation of domains and patterns in multicomponent membranes; adhesion of cellular and biomimetic membranes. 

Major publications: 

Sicorello A., Różycki B., Konarev P.V., Svergun D.I., Pastore A. (2021). Capturing the conformational ensemble of the mixed folded polyglutamine protein ataxin-3. Structure, 29, published online. 

Li L., Hu J., Różycki B., Song F. (2020). Intercellular receptor-ligand binding and thermal fluctuations facilitate receptor aggregation in adhering membranes. Nano Letters, 20, 722-728. 

Steinkuehler J., Różycki B., Alvey C., Lipowsky R., Weikl T.R., Dimova R., Discher D.E. (2019). Membrane fluctuations and acidosis regulate cooperative binding of 'marker of self' protein CD47 with the macrophage checkpoint receptor SIRP-alpha. Journal of Cell Science, 132, 216770. 

Różycki B., Lipowsky R. (2015). Spontaneous curvature of bilayer membranes from molecular simulations: Asymmetric lipid densities and asymmetric adsorption. Journal of Chemical Physics, 142, 05410. 

Różycki B., Kim Y.C., Hummer G. (2011). SAXS ensemble refinement of ESCRT-III CHMP3 conformational transitions. Structure, 19, 109-116. 

lcyw@ifpan.edu.pl

@ http://info.ifpan.edu.pl/~lcyw/

@ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Dp_6GdIAAAAJ&hl=en

@ ORCID: 0000-0002-0162-7943

Łukasz Cywiński is a physics professor at the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences (IP PAS). In 2007, he received PhD from the University of California, San Diego. Afterward, he spent two years as a postdoc at Condensed Matter Theory Center at University of Maryland, College Park, working there with Prof. S. Das Sarma, and then moved back to Poland to IP PAS in 2009. In 2015, he obtained habilitation, and since 2016 he is an Associate Professor at IP PAS, leading a team working on physics of spin qubits and general theory of decoherence. Since 2018, he has been the Head of the Division of Theoretical Physics at IP PAS. He has published more than 60 articles (including 6 in Phys. Rev. Lett. and 41 in Phys. Rev. A and B). According to Web of Science, his articles have been cited more than 2300 times, and his h-index is 26.

Research interests:

Physics of solid-state based qubits (especially spin qubits: quantum dots and NV centers), theory of decoherence, real-life problems on the way to building quantum information processing devices.

Chosen publications:

J.A. Krzywda and Ł. Cywiński,  Adiabatic electron charge transfer between two quantum dots in presence of 1/f noise, Phys. Rev. B 101, 035303 (2020).

Krzywda, P. Szańkowski, and Ł. Cywiński, The dynamical-decoupling-based spatiotemporal noise spectroscopy, New J. Phys 21, 043034 (2019).

Kwiatkowski and Ł. Cywiński, Decoherence of two entangled spin qubits coupled to an interacting sparse nuclear spin bath: application to nitrogen vacancy centers, Phys. Rev. B 98, 155202 (2018).

Medford, Ł. Cywiński, C. Barthel, C.M. Marcus, M.P. Hanson, and A.C. Gossard, Scaling of Dynamical Decoupling for Spin Qubits, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 086802 (2012).

Ł. Cywiński, W.M. Witzel, and  S.~Das Sarma, Electron Spin Dephasing due to Hyperfine Interactions with a Nuclear Spin Bath, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 057601 (2009).

 tomasz.sowinski@ifpan.edu.pl

@ www.ifpan.edu.pl/~tomsow 

@ www.FewBody.ifpan.edu.pl 

Researcher ID: A-4993-2012 , My ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7970-4371   

Tomasz Sowiński received his Ph.D. in physics in 2008 from the University of Warsaw under the supervision of prof. Iwo Białynicki-Birula. He was a postdoc at ICFO (Barcelona) working with Maciej Lewenstein on extended Hubbard models describing ultracold matter confined in optical lattices. In 2015 he obtained habilitation, and currently, he is an associate professor at the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences. His research has been supported by two research grants of the National Science Center and one of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Tomasz is also known as an active science popularizer with more than 60 popular science articles, 5 short educational movies, and over 30 public lectures for a general audience. 

Research interests:  

Ultra-cold atomic physics, quantum systems with reduced dimensionality, strongly correlated few-body systems, quantum simulators, open quantum systems, public understanding of science. 

Major publications:  

Kościk P, Sowiński T, Variational ansatz for p-wave fermions confined in a one-dimensional harmonic trap, New J. Phys. 22, 093053 (2020). 

Pęcak D, Sowiński T, Signatures of unconventional pairing in spin-imbalanced one-dimensional few-fermion systems, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 012077(R) (2020). 

Sowiński T, García-March MA, One-dimensional mixtures of several ultracold atoms: a review, Rep. Prog. Phys. 82, 104401 (2019). 

Pęcak D, Gajda M, Sowiński T, Two-flavor mixture of a few fermions of different mass in a one-dimensional harmonic trap, New J. Phys. 18, 013030 (2016). 

Sowiński,Creation on demand of higher orbital states in a vibrating optical lattice, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 165301 (2012). 

 kilan@ifpan.edu.pl 

@ http://info.ifpan.edu.pl/ON-1/on13_pliki/LKilanski_Homepage/LKilanski_HomePage.html   

Since 2017 Łukasz Kilański is the head of the laboratory of semimagnetic semiconductors at the Institute of Physics PAS (IP PAS). Łukasz Kilański received his PhD at IP PAS in 2010. The main issues undertaken during his PhD studies were structural, magnetic, and electrical properties of semiconductors containing transition metals and rare earth impurities. Afterward, he spent a 1-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Aalto University in Espoo (Finland).  This internship allowed him to undertake the research of the structural defects in a number of different materials. After returning from the postdoctoral fellowship in Finland in August 2011, he started working as an Assistant Professor in IP PAS. In the period 2011-2017 he was involved in the studies of several research topics: (i) magnetic exchange interactions of the IV-VI group materials doped with magnetic impurities and (ii) functionalization of the graphene – magnetic oxide nanocomposites for biochemical applications and others. Currently, he is mainly involved in the studies of domain structures of multiferroic topological insulators.  

Research interests:  

Spintronic, multiferroics, perovskite solar cells. 

Major publications:  

Kilanski L. et al., Physical Review B 95, 035206-1-10 (2017). 

Kilanski L. et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 101, 072102 (2012). 

Jedrzejewska A., Kilanski L., et al., J. Magn. Magn. Mat. 471, 321–328 (2019).