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HAWC’s Measurement of the Highest Energy Photons Sets Limits on Violations of Relativity
New measurements confirm, to the highest energies yet explored, that the laws of physics hold no matter where you are or how fast you're moving. Observations of record-breaking gamma rays prove the robustness of Lorentz Invariance—a piece of Einstein's theory of relativity that predicts… Read More - Research News
Lathrop Lab's Geodynamo Set for Overhaul
In a hangar-sized laboratory off Paint Branch Drive, Dan Lathrop gives the signal, and what he often calls simply “the experiment” awakens. A huge, steel sphere with tubes and electrical wires snaking across its surface begins a stately, nearly silent rotation inside a towering… Read More - Research News
Catching New Patterns of Swirling Light Mid-flight
In many situations, it’s fair to say that light travels in a straight line without much happening along the way. But light can also hide complex patterns and behaviors that only a careful observer can uncover. This is possible because light behaves like a… Read More - Research News
Johnpierre Paglione Receives $1.55M from the Moore Foundation
Physics Professor Johnpierre Paglione has been awarded more than $1.5 million by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to study the complex behavior of electrons in quantum materials. “The Moore Foundation has played a pivotal role in supporting and promoting quantum materials research over… Read More - Research News
Galactic Gamma-ray Source Map Reveals Birthplaces of High-energy Particles
Nine sources of extremely high-energy gamma rays have been identified in a new catalog compiled by researchers with the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory, including nine University of Maryland physicists. All nine sources produce gamma rays with energies over 56 trillion electron volts… Read More - Research News
Remote Quantum Systems Produce Interfering Photons
UMD physicists have observed, for the first time, interference between particles of light created using a trapped ion and a collection of neutral atoms. Their results could be an essential step toward the realization of a distributed network of quantum computers capable of processing… Read More - Research News
LHCb Experiment Discovers CP Violation in the Charm Quark System
A major unsolved puzzle in particle physics and cosmology is the apparent asymmetry in the abundance of matter and antimatter in the universe. One condition for such an asymmetry to arise is the breaking of charge-parity (CP) symmetry in laws of interactions amongst particles,… Read More - Research News
Hybrid Device among First to Meld Quantum and Conventional Computing
Researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have trained a small hybrid quantum computer to reproduce the features in a particular set of images. The result, which was published Oct. 18, 2019 in the journal Science Advances, is among the first demonstrations of quantum… Read More - Research News
Stretched Photons Recover Lost Interference
The smallest pieces of nature—individual particles like electrons, for instance—are pretty much interchangeable. An electron is an electron is an electron, regardless of whether it’s stuck in a lab on Earth, bound to an atom in some chalky moon dust or shot out of… Read More
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Mar 30, 2020 Physics Student Named 2020 Goldwater Scholar Scott Moroch was one of four CMNS undergraduates to receive a scholarship from the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, which encourages students to pursue advanced study and research careers in the sciences, engineering and mathematics. Over the last decade, UMD’s nominations yielded 33… Read More -
Mar 10, 2020 Jarzynski Wins Simons Fellowship 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), is one of three faculty members in the University of Maryland’s College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences… Read More -
Mar 6, 2020 Physics Professors Selected for MURI Awards The Department of Defense (DoD) announced 26 2020 Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) awards totaling $185 million, and the University of Maryland tied with the University of Illinois for the highest university representation on the list. The MURI program complements other DoD basic research efforts… Read More -
Mar 6, 2020 UMD Spring Semester Scheduling Updates Please stay up-to-date with campus information here: https://umd.edu/virusinfo Read More
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