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Four New Gravitational Wave Events Detected from Black Hole Mergers
The Virgo Collaboration and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, which includes UMD Physics Professors Peter Shawhan and Alessandra Buonanno, announced the detection of four new gravitational wave events from black hole mergers. (Image: LIGO-Virgo/Frank Elavsky/Northwestern) Read More -
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Fast-flowing electrons may mimic astrophysical dynamos
A powerful engine roils deep beneath our feet, converting energy in the Earth’s core into magnetic fields that shield us from the solar wind. Similar engines drive the magnetic activity of the sun, other stars and even other planets—all of which create magnetic fields… Read More -
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Mountaintop Observatory Sees Gamma Rays from Exotic Milky Way Object
The HAWC collaboration has detected highly energetic light coming from the outermost regions of an unusual star system within our own galaxy. The source is microquasar SS 433—a black hole that is gobbling up stuff from a nearby companion star and blasting out two… Read More -
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Modified Superconductor Synapse Reveals Exotic Electron Behavior
Electrons tend to avoid one another as they go about their business carrying current. But certain devices, cooled to near zero temperature, can coax these loner particles out of their shells. In extreme cases, electrons will interact in unusual ways, causing strange quantum entities… Read More -
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Pristine Quantum Light Source Created at the Edge of Silicon Chip
Protected Pathways for Light Offer a way to Streamline Single Photon Production. The smallest amount of light you can have is one photon, so dim that it’s pretty much invisible to humans. While imperceptible, these tiny blips of energy are useful for carrying quantum… Read More -
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LHC Scientists Finally Detect Most Favored Higgs Decay
Scientists now know the fate of the vast majority of all Higgs bosons produced in the LHC. Today at CERN, the Large Hadron Collider experiments ATLAS and CMS jointly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson transforming into bottom quarks as it decays. This… Read More -
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JQI Scientists Monroe and Gorshkov are Part of a New, $15 Million NSF Quantum Computing Project
NSF has announced a $15 million award to a collaboration of seven institutions including the University of Maryland. The goal: Build the world’s first practical quantum computer. "Quantum computers will change everything about the technology we use and how we use it, and we… Read More -
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Complexity Test Offers New Perspective on Small Quantum Computers
State-of-the-art quantum devices are not yet large enough to be called full-scale computers. The biggest comprise just a few dozen qubits—a meager count compared to the billions of bits in an ordinary computer’s memory. But steady progress means that these machines now routinely string… Read More -
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Chris Monroe Co-authors Piece on National Quantum Initiative - The Washington Times
Quantum technology harnesses the radical power of quantum systems — such as isolated atoms, photons and electrons — to transform how we process and communicate information. But that potential can be realized only if our nation’s resources are focused in a way that helps bring quantum… Read More
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Physics graduate student Freddy Cisneros has been awarded the best oral presentation award in Physics and Astronomy at the annual SACNAS conference in San Antonio, Texas for his work on using machine learning to study rare events in
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Dec 5, 2018
Sankar Das Sarma and Ian Spielman Named 2018 Highly Cited Researchers
Sankar Das Sarma and Ian Spielman join six other faculty members in the University of Maryland’s College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences included on Clarivate Analytics’ 2018 list of Highly Cited Researchers, a compilation of influential names in science. Sankar Das Sarma is a Richard E. Prange…
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Nov 6, 2018
Sundrum Win APS Sakurai Prize
The American Physical Society awarded its 2019 J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics to Raman Sundrum, a Distinguished University Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland. Sundrum’s collaborator on two key papers, Harvard University Physics Professor Lisa Randall, also received the award. Sundrum…
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Nov 6, 2018
Jarzynski Wins APS Onsager Prize
The American Physical Society awarded its 2019 Lars Onsager Prize in Theoretical Statistical Physics, to Chris Jarzynski, a Distinguished University Professor in the University of Maryland’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Physics, and Institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST). Jarzynski will receive the…
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Nov 5, 2018
UMD Alumnus Wins Breakthrough New Horizons Prize
Aron Wall, who received his UMD Ph.D. in 2011, has been awarded the 2019 Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize for fundamental insights about quantum information, quantum field theory and gravity. The $100,000 prize is given each year to up to three “promising junior researchers…
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