Honors Program

The Physics Department Honors Program:

The goal of the program is to allow extraordinary undergraduate students to take part in cutting edge research and scientific activities in the Department of Physics at the Technion.
The program is intended for a limited number of students with scientific curiosity and exceptional intellectual abilities.

Main features

Participation in research, from early stages of the studies.
Personal mentorship by scientists in the department.
Course work tailored to personal interests.
Unique academic enrichment activities and exposure to current research.
Fellowship covering the full tuition and a stipend for living expenses.
Automatic acceptance to the Technion Graduate Program in Physics (M.Sc. or direct Ph.D.) after successfully graduating from the program.

Application

Applicants should have a Technion entry score of at least 92. Exceptions in extraordinary cases will be considered.
Applicants will register to study physics at the Technion (either before or when they register to the program).
Candidates will send a CV and a letter explaining why they match the program and why they want to take part in it. Candidates may include recommendation letters.
Suitable candidates will be invited for an interview.

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Spotlights

Nadav Shapira has won at the 13th international workshop on vortex matter in superconductors for the best poster on the Behavior of Individual Vortices on Twin Boundaries in Underdoped Single Crystal YBCO

I reported on measurements of individual vortices in YBCO single crystals with unidirectional twin boundaries (TBs) - a common planar defect in YBCO: Using low temperature magnetic force microscopy (MFM) with single vortex resolution we study the behavior of vortices in the vicinity of TBs. By imaging and dragging individual vortices we reveal their anisotropic behavior – it is easier to drag a vortex along a TB than across it, and observe a difference between dragging in the two directions normal to the TB. Finally, we search for variations of the superfluid density on TBs.

See attached figure:

A scan at T=4.8K and at height ≈ 730 nm above the sample - vortices are visible as blue disks. We locate TBs by spatial correlations of vortex locations and by remembering that vortices decorate defects.

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