Congrats to our colleague Gwendal Fève for winning the Oliver E. Buckley Prize on condensed matters by American Physical Society !
PI in the Laboratoire de Physique, Ecole Normale Supérieure (LPENS), and Professor at Sorbonne Université in Paris, Gwendal studies the quantum transport of electric current in very pure two-dimensional conductors at very low temperatures. Strong interactions between electrons can give rise to new quasiparticles called anyons. In particular, Gwendal Fève has highlighted the exotic properties of anyons which, unlike fermions and bosons, retain a robust memory of exchanges between particles that could be exploited for quantum information processing.
The Oliver E. Buckley Prize recognizes and encourages outstanding contributions—theoretical or experimental—in the field of condensed matter physics.
Specifically, this prize was awarded to Gwendal Feve for his groundbreaking experiments that observed anyonic braiding statistics in the fractional quantum Hall effect, thus establishing the significance of topological excitations in two-dimensions.
