Falling Walls Falling Walls Science Summit 2023

Breaking the Wall to New Quantum Matter

Titus Neupert

Engineering & Technology

The nominating institution University of Zurich on the breakthrough:

Neuromorphic and quantum computers will revolutionize the way we perform calculations. Both concepts require new hardware foundations, creating a demand for quantum materials with exotic properties. In particular, systems with topological effects — described using tools from the name-bearing field of mathematics — are promising due to their universality and robustness. This research effort identifies conceptually novel principles for topological matter and materials in which they are realized.

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Digitalisation, Quantum Technologies.

Titus Neupert

Department of Physics, University of Zurich

Prof. Titus Neupert studied physics in his hometown Dresden, Germany, and in Zurich, Switzerland. After his masters, he spend one year as a visiting scientist in RIKEN, Japan. In Titus’ PhD (2013, ETH Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute), he worked on topological states with anyonic excitations, so-called fractional Chern insulators. From 2013 until 2016 he was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, USA. Since 2016 Titus is Professor for theoretical condensed matter physics at the University or Zurich. He won the following awards: Distinction from ETH and Swiss Physical Society PhD Prize (2013), Klung-Wilhelmy Prize (2019).

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