LOUIS TAILLEFER

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Universal Quantum Phenomenon Found in Strange Metals !

Experiments suggest that exotic superconducting materials share a “strange metal” state characterized by a quantum speed limit that somehow acts as a fundamental organizing principle.
Universal Quantum Phenomenon Found in Strange Metals
Nathalie Wolchver,
Quanta Magazine
Universal T-linear resistivity and Planckian dissipation in overdoped cuprates
A. Legros et al.,
Nature Physics (2018)

Simon Memorial Prize

Louis Taillefer is the first Canadian to receive the prize since it was established in 1957. Every three years, the Institute of Physics (IOP) gives this international prize in recognition of honorable work in low temperature physics either in theoretical and experimental physics.
CIFAR’s quantum physicist Louis Taillefer first Canadian to win Simon Prize
CIFAR
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (March 2, 2017)
Louis Taillefer : premier Canadien à recevoir le prix Simon Memorial
Faculté des sciences
Université de Sherbrooke (March 8, 2017)
Interview with Louis Taillefer
THE
Times Higher Education
Simon memorial prize
IOP
Institute of Physics

VULGARISATION

Professor Louis Taillefer explains, in an internview published in the magazine Internationnal Innovation, his vision about the future of high critical temperature superconductors.