Alexei Vagov

This year, the Future Technologies Forum focused on new materials and chemistry. Scientists from HSE University participated in the event. Alexei Vagov, Director of the Centre for Quantum Metamaterials at HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (HSE MIEM), discussed developments in quantum superconducting electronics and the creation of high-entropy materials for energy storage and perovskite solar panels.

MIEM Associate Professor A.M. Ostovari will talk about high-entropy materials, their classification and application in the field of energy storage and catalysis.
The seminar will be held at 17:00, February 27 (Thursday), 2025, in auditorium 501 (Academic Council Hall), MIEM. Everyone is invited to attend.

The Future Technologies Forum is a discussion platform dedicated to the development of high-tech technologies in Russia. The Forum was launched in 2023 and has become a flagship event where leading experts, scientists, business representatives and government authorities talk about advanced scientific developments and product solutions based on them. The Roscongress Foundation is the operator of the Forum, and the largest Russian corporations are co–organizers. The plenary session of the Forum was attended by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.

This event launched the First Brazilian academic and scientific Mission in Russia, and one of its results was the signing of cooperation agreements between the Higher School of Economics and four Brazilian universities.

Scientists at HSE MIEM and MIPT have demonstrated that highly complex spatial structures, similar to the intricate patterns found in nature, can emerge in superconductors. Mathematically, these patterns are described using the Ginzburg–Landau equation at a specific combination of parameters known as the Bogomolny point. The paper has been published in the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter.

July 16-24, the director of the Center, Professor Vagov A.V., took part in the work of the Russian - Chinese  School and the symposium "Promising functional materials for quantum Nanoelectronics and Superconductivity", organized on the basis of the Beijing Institute of Technology (PTI). He presented the results of the Center's research on the properties of ferromagnetic superconducting materials.

The Superstripes 2024 Conference (Ischia, Italy, June 24-29, 2024) continued the successful tradition of international scientific meetings started by the first Stripes Conference, held in Rome in 1996. The event is dedicated to the growing interest of the international scientific community in the emergence of new phenomena related to complexity in quantum matter. The goal of Superstripes 2024 is to promote the development of science and scientific culture at the highest level and unite world scientific leaders in the field of new achievements in topical topics of the science of quantum complex matter.

Publication by scientists of the Centre for Quantum Metamaterials "Suppression of superconducting fluctuations in multi-zone superconductors as a mechanism for increasing critical temperature" (Mini-review) // Letters to the Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics. 2024. Vol.119. No.3. p. 234 – 252// She was recognized as the best in the nomination "Science" in the field of PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES.

The fifteenth meeting of the Working Group was held on June 4, 2024,jointly chaired by N.Y. Kudryavtsev, Deputy Director of the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, and Sun Jian, Deputy Director of the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China. The event was held in Yekaterinburg on the basis of the Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin.

The ninth ICSM2024-ICQMT2024 International Conference (Fethiye, Turkey, April 27 – May 4, 2024) became an interdisciplinary forum for fruitful exchange of knowledge about the latest experimental results and theoretical achievements in the field of superconductivity, magnetism, innovative advanced materials, quantum science and technology, and their applications, including related technologies.

The session is chaired by the Chief Researcher of the Center, Professor A.A. Shanenko. 14 reports of young scientists from the HSE (Moscow), MIPT (Dolgoprudny), MEPhI (Moscow) and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR, Dubna) will be presented. The session will be opened by a well-known scientist, director of the Center for Advanced Methods of Mesophysics and Nanotechnology, Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Stolyarov V.S. He will talk about the current state of research on new functional materials, structures based on them and work on their application in the emerging field of superconducting electronics. Young staff and graduate students of the Center will also speak at the session.

The impressive results of the Centre's Researchers' work were presented at the XXVIII International Symposium "Nanophysics and Nanoelectronics" in a poster presentation "Transition from type II to Type I superconductivity in dirty ferromagnetic superconductors". The symposium was held in Nizhny Novgorod on March 11 - 15, 2024 and brought together more than six hundred scientists from all over Russia, as well as from other countries. This is the largest conference on condensed matter physics in Russia, covering a wide range of issues from the physics of superconducting, magnetic and semiconductor systems, multilayer X-ray optics and quantum technologies.

Theoretical physicists from Russia and Brazil are working together on a theory that describes novel superconducting materials with potentially high critical temperatures. The theory can explain many properties of superconductors with non-trivial topological properties, as well as of those with multiple condensates. In this interview, Prof. Mauro Doria from the Institute of Physics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Prof. Alexei Vagov from the Centre for Quantum Metamaterials, MIEM HSE, talk about their cooperation.

The Russian and Brazilian scientists have started the joint development of a new theory of high-temperature superconductivity, which will explain the nature of recently discovered superconductors with multiple condensates, as well as the so-called topological superconductors. Mauro Doria, Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and Alexey Vagov, Director of the Center for Quantum Metamaterials at the Higher School of Economics, told HSE Daily about how cooperation will develop.

11 scientific articles have been published in Q1 journals, including Nature Physics and Physical Review Letters. The research results were also presented in 17 reports at leading international scientific (scientific and practical) conferences in the Russian Federation and abroad.

Joint research is aimed at the theoretical description of a new generation of superconducting materials and devices. Among them is the work on the magnetic response of ferromagnetic superconductors, which offers a fresh look at the phenomenon of intermediate or intertype superconductivity in various materials. Another interesting work concerns the new mechanism of the "origin of complexity from simplicity" - when a system with rather primitive interactions between its constituent parts allows the emergence of complex spatial and temporal configurations (patterns). The  article with these results were sent respectively to the editors of the prestigious journals Communications Physics and Physical Review X.

Theoretical physicists from Russia and Brazil are working together on a theory that describes novel superconducting materials with potentially high critical temperature. The theory can explain many properties of superconductors with non-trivial topological properties as well as of those with multiple condensates. This was stated to TASS by professor Dr. Mauro Doria (Institute of Physics at the Federal University of Rio-de-Janeiro, Brazil) and professor Dr. Alexei Vagov (Center for Quantum Metamaterials, Moscow Institute for Electronics and Mathematics, HSE University).

The main goal of this scientific visit was a joint research with scientists working at the Center, in particular, with Professor A. Shanenko and Professor A. Vagov. Professor Doria has also given a seminar at the MIEM HSE, where he  talked about his recent work on new materials with non-trivial topological properties.

The Center hosted the traditional meeting of the participants of all its research projects

Researchers at the HSE MIEM Center for Quantum Metamaterials, together with colleagues from Germany and the UK, have proposed an algorithm for Automated Compression of Arbitrary environments (ACE).

The Director of the Centre , Professor  Dr. Alexey Vagov, acted as an invited speaker at the world-famous global summit CONMAT 2022 in Dubai, UAE.

Two international laboratories will be created at the HSE University Institute of Electronics and Mathematics, one at the Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technology, and one at the Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology. The four projects were selected from a total of 17 applications.