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Michał Tomza

@michaltomza.bsky.social

Quantum Physicist, Ultracold group leader, Professor at the University of Warsaw

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🏆 Our collaborator and the first author, Alessio Ciamei, has already won an ERC Starting Grant to build the proposed experiment in Florence.

🚀 Stay tuned!

09.03.2026 16:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

⚡ Searching for the electric dipole moment of the electron is a first step toward solving a major mystery in modern physics: why the Universe contains far more matter than antimatter.

09.03.2026 16:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🔬 We propose ultracold YbCr and similar high-spin polar molecules, featuring large internal electric fields and an ideal rotational structure controllable with modest laboratory fields, as a sensitive platform for probing physics beyond the Standard Model.

09.03.2026 16:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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📄 Our new research article on “Ultracold High-Spin Σ-State Polar Molecules for New Physics Searches” has been published in Physical Review X:
journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...

09.03.2026 16:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

To this end, we showed that the excited metastable X1⁢𝛴+b3⁢𝛱 electronic manifold supports field-linked tetramers in a broader range of electric fields with collisional shielding extended to zero field. The discovered phenomenon is more general, thus stay tuned!

06.01.2026 15:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We proposed proof-of-principle experiments to implement stimulated Raman adiabatic passage and photoassociation using field-linked tetramers, paving the way for the formation of deeply bound ultracold polyatomic molecules.

06.01.2026 15:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Our new research article on "Optical excitation and stabilization of ultracold field-linked tetratomic molecules" was published in @physrevlett.bsky.social with our excellent former postdoc Dr. Bijit Mukherjee
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

06.01.2026 15:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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This week, I participate in the Haikou Workshop and Winter School: Fundamentals and Frontiers of Ultracold Atoms and Molecules in Hainan in China organized by Prof. Xin-Yu Luo (罗鑫宇)

11.12.2025 12:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The interactions between laser-coolable molecules in excited electronic states were investigated for the first time, with implications for collisional losses among spin-polarized molecules.

03.11.2025 20:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Our new research article on "CaF+CaF interactions in the ground and excited electronic states: implications for collisional losses" was just published in @physreva.bsky.social A by our excellent postdocs Dibyendu Sardarand & Marcin Gronowski with John Bohn
journals.aps.org/pra/abstract...

03.11.2025 20:09 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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🍂 Mid-autumn group dinner to celebrate recent scientific success 🚀, welcome new group members, and wish farewell to those leaving for professor or PhD positions 🎓✨

01.11.2025 16:00 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🎓Students are our greatest asset and our future!🌟

Outstanding Kacper Cybiński, Dawid Dąbrowski, Weronika Sobień, and Yahor Mankevich completed their excellent MSc and BSc theses under my supervision at the University of Warsaw this year.

19.09.2025 18:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This week we host the Workshop on Ultracold Molecules at the University of Warsaw organized by Simon Cornish and me with the Candela Foundation!

24.06.2025 10:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Together with @michaltomza.bsky.social we are looking forward to our close collaboration with the National Contact Point as part of our mission as Ambassadors for the
@erc.europa.eu We plan to engage in joint initiatives aimed at supporting ERC applicants and grantees in Poland #Amb4ERC

29.05.2025 19:27 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Our new research article on "Ground and first excited states of the NaSr molecule: Experimental and theoretical study" published in J. Phys. Chem. A @pubs.acs.org in experimental-theoretical collaboration led by Dr. Jacek Szczepkowski at the Institute of Physics PAN
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

25.05.2025 13:45 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🎓 Last month, our outstanding undergrads Weronika Sobień, Jan Okoński, and Dawid Dąbrowski presnted their results at the International Physics Student Conference SMOK in Kraków 🐉 and the High-Performance Computing Users Conference in Zakopane 🏔️.

25.05.2025 13:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Ultrazimne cząsteczki
YouTube video by Polska Akademia Nauk Ultrazimne cząsteczki

Już jutro o 18 zapraszam na premierę kolejnego odcinka "A o tym PAN słyszał?", w którym będę rozmawiał z @michaltomza.bsky.social z Wydziału Fizyki UW ale też AMU PAN o badaniach ultrazimnych cząsteczek i tym do czego mogą nas prowadzić. Zapraszam do oglądania! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IRv...

20.05.2025 14:00 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I am honored to be appointed the Ambassador for the ERC
@erc.europa.eu, along with @justynaolko.bsky.social, the second Polish Ambassador, and 30 other ERC grantees, to promote the importance of frontier scientific research as the engine of a prosperous, knowledge-driven Europe!
#Amb4ERC

29.04.2025 20:29 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The coupling between electronic spin and mechanical rotation in ultracold KRb-Rb collisions was probed experimentally and rationalized theoretically. We found and explained exceptionally large spin-roration coupling!

07.04.2025 21:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We contributed electronic structure calculations to the experimental-theoretical collaboration led by Prof. Kang-Kuen Ni and her group at Harvard University with quantum scattering calculations by Prof. Timur Tscherbul from the University of Nevada and Prof. John Bohn from JILA.

07.04.2025 21:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Our new research article on "Hyperfine-to-rotational energy transfer in ultracold atom-molecule collisions of Rb and KRb" was just published in NatureChemistry with our excellent postdocs Dr Marcin Gronowski and Dr Hela Ldjimi
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

07.04.2025 21:56 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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👩‍🔬🍕🔬 The group dinner to celebrate our recent research successes and the end of winter! 🏆

11.03.2025 21:00 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Prof. Tomza o polskiej nauce: Ciągle musimy udowadniać, że nie jesteśmy złodziejami Dwa razy więcej pieniędzy na badania podstawowe, nowe instytuty naukowe i reforma NCBiR - to pakiet pomysłów, z którym naukowcy poszli do premiera. Jakie są szanse na ich realizację?

O pomysłach, które naukowcy przedstawili premierowi @donald-tusk.bsky.social rozmawiam z prof. @michaltomza.bsky.social

wyborcza.pl/7,75398,3170...

23.02.2025 13:53 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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🚀 Our outstanding PhD student Maks Walewski and BSc student Dawid Dąbrowski participate in the Winter School on Quantum Revolution in AMO Sciences organized by @harvard.edu at Biosphere 2 🌿 in Arizona🏜️

21.02.2025 21:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🎉 Big news! Our brilliant postdoc, Dr. Bijit Mukherjee, has been awarded a prestigious MSCActions postdoctoral fellowship! 🌟 This means Bijit will stay with our group for 2 more years. 🙌
Congratulations, Bijit! 🥳👏

14.02.2025 00:48 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In the theoretical-experimental collaboration between @UniWarszawski and @WeizmannScience, we show that magnetically tunable Feshbach resonances in Sr⁺ + Rb collisions survive far above the ultracold regime—defying the idea that quantum phenomena vanish at higher temperatures.

05.02.2025 20:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Our new research article on "Quantum control of ion-atom collisions beyond the ultracold regime" published in @ScienceAdvances by our excellent PhD student Maks Walewski and postdoc Dr. Matthew Frye with Dr. Or Katz, Dr. Meirav Pinkas, and Prof. Roee Ozeri
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

05.02.2025 20:05 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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Our new research article on "Characterizing OOD generalization of neural networks: application to the disordered SSH model" published in Machine Learning: Science and Technology by our great MSc student Kacper Cybiński led by Prof. Anna Dawid @molecularrobot.bsky.social with @icfonians.bsky.social

22.01.2025 16:57 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michał Tomza: Paper mills to psucie nauki na poziomie systemowym - Forum Akademickie Najbardziej smuci mnie fakt, że to sami badacze pozwalają sobie na nieetyczne zachowania. Jak na dłoni widać, że nie wszyscy, którzy mienią się naukowcami,

#Papermills to psucie nauki na poziomie systemowym. Jeśli większość naukowców nie będzie dążyć do wyższych standardów etycznych, wyższej jakości i rzetelności badań, to stoimy na przegranej pozycji – mówi w wywiadzie dla FA @michaltomza.bsky.social

22.01.2025 09:47 — 👍 9    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

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14.01.2025 15:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0