- Research News
Researchers Generate Tunable Twin Particles of Light
Identical twins might seem “indistinguishable,” but in the quantum world the word takes on a new level of meaning. While identical twins share many traits, the universe treats two indistinguishable quantum particles as intrinsically interchangeable. This opens the door for indistinguishable particles to interact… Read More - Research News
Two (Photons) is Company, Three’s a Crowd
Photons—the quantum particles of light—normally don’t have any sense of personal space. A laser crams tons of photons into a tight beam, and they couldn’t care less that they are packed on top of each other. Two beams can even pass through each other… Read More - Research News
Research Team Describes "Somersaulting" Photons
Spinning or rotating objects are commonplace, from toy tops and fidget spinners to spinning figure skaters. And from water circling a drain to far less welcome tornadoes and hurricanes. In physics, there are two kinds of rotational motion, spin rotation or orbital rotation. Earth’s… Read More - Research News
A Handy New Platform for Majorana Fermions
A new, experimentally-feasible approach to generating Majorana fermions has been identified in iron-based superconducting thin films, potentially paving the way for Majorana-based quantum computation. The research, conducted by CMTC and JQI postdoc Ruixing Zhang and Distinguished University Professor Sankar Das Sarma, was published in Physical… Read More - Research News
Intriguing New Result Announced by the LHCb Experiment at CERN
The Standard Model of particle physics explains the most fundamental forces and particles in the universe with unprecedented precision. However, a recent announcement from the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment at CERN raises the tantalizing prospect of new physics beyond the Standard Model… Read More - Research News
Switchbacks Science: Explaining Parker Solar Probe’s Magnetic Puzzle
When NASA’s Parker Solar Probe sent back the first observations from its voyage to the Sun, scientists found signs of a wild ocean of currents and waves quite unlike the near-Earth space much closer to our planet. This ocean was spiked with what became… Read More - Research News
Researchers Comb Atoms into a Novel Swirl
When you brush your hair in the morning, there’s a pretty good chance you’re not thinking about quantum physics. But the way your hair swirls as you brush is actually related to some features of the quantum world. Important properties of quantum particles are… Read More - Research News
Pushing the Frontier of Extreme Light-Matter Interaction Research
University of Maryland Physics Professor Howard Milchberg and the students and postdoctoral researchers in his lab explore the dramatic results of experiments that push light to extremes in the presence of matter. In Milchberg’s opinion, researching the intense interactions between light and matter—which are… Read More - Research News
Researchers Create On-Demand Cold Spots to Generate Electromagnetic Cone of Silence
In modern society, we are accustomed to having electronic systems that always work, regardless of the conditions. Protection of sensitive electronics to interference through unwanted coupling between components or intentional electromagnetic attack is important to ensure uninterrupted service. However, the environments in which we… Read More
- Student Spotlight
- Grad Student Spotlight
As a child of immigrant parents, Jorge Ramirez learned very early on the importance of education. And not just any education—a U.S. education. 
Jorge Ramirez Ortiz
“My family was heavily burdened by the economic crises happening in Honduras during the ’90s, so my parents immigrated to the United States with my siblings and me,” he shared. “My parents were illegal immigrants my entire life, so despite having college experience and a lot of
… Read More For some graduate students, being a teaching assistant is seen as a bit of a chore. 
Batoul Banihashemi Teaching classes and grading assignments can take time away from the research they enrolled in the program to do. But for Batoul Banihashemi, the opportunity to teach has been a highlight.
“Usually teaching is looked at as an extra thing that grad students are required to do, or they have to do it because
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Apr 27, 2021 Buonanno Elected to National Academy of Sciences Alessandra Buonanno has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Buonanno is the director of the Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity Department at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam and a Research Professor at the University of Maryland. She joined the UMD Department… Read More -
Apr 19, 2021 Gorshkov to Receive Flemming Award Adjunct Associate Professor Alexey Gorshkov is among 12 exceptional public servants chosen to receive the Arthur S. Flemming Award for 2020. The awardees will be honored during a virtual celebration this summer. Gorshkov, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology(link is external) (NIST),… Read More -
Apr 1, 2021 Mohapatra Authors Book on Neutrino's Importance Distinguished University Professor Rabi Mohapatra recently published The Neutrino Story: One Tiny Particle’s Grand Role in the Cosmos, a book describing the importance of the mysterious particle that Mohapatra has studied for decades. “The idea for writing this book came to me when I realized… Read More -
Mar 30, 2021 Rockafellow One of Three UMD Goldwater Scholars Ela Rockafellow, a junior physics major who is also a member of the University Honors program in the Honors College, is one of three University of Maryland undergraduates awarded scholarships this year by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, which encourages students… Read More
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