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Simulations of ‘Backwards Time Travel’ Can Improve Scientific Experiments
If gamblers, investors and quantum experimentalists could bend the arrow of time, their advantage would be significantly higher, leading to significantly better outcomes. Adjunct Assistant Professor and JQI affiliate Nicole Yunger Halpern and her colleagues at the University of Cambridge have shown that by… Read More - Research News
Embracing Uncertainty Helps Bring Order to Quantum Chaos
In physics, chaos is something unpredictable. A butterfly flapping its wings somewhere in Guatemala might seem insignificant, but those flits and flutters might be the ultimate cause of a hurricane over the Indian Ocean. The butterfly effect captures what it means for something to… Read More - Research News
Advocating for Quantum Simulation of Extreme Physics
The Big Bang, supernovae, collisions of nuclei at breakneck speeds—our universe is filled with extreme phenomena, both natural and human-made. But the surprising thing is that all of these seemingly distinct processes are governed by the same underlying physics: a combination of quantum mechanics… Read More - Research News
Novel Quantum Speed Limits Tackle Messy Reality of Disorder
The researchers and engineers studying quantum technologies are exploring uncharted territory. Due to the unintuitive quirks of quantum physics, the terrain isn’t easy to scout, and the path of progress has been littered with wrong turns and dead ends. Sometimes, though, theorists have streamlined… Read More - Research News
UMD Researchers Study the Intricate Processes Underpinning Gene Expression
A new study led by University of Maryland physicists sheds light on the cellular processes that regulate genes. Published in the journal Science Advances, the paper explains how the dynamics of a polymer called chromatin—the structure into which DNA is packaged—regulate gene expression. Through… Read More - Research News
UMD Scientists Help Discover the Highest-Energy Light Coming from the Sun
Sometimes, the best place to hide a secret is in broad daylight. Just ask the sun. A new paper in Physical Review Letters details the discovery of the highest-energy light ever observed from the sun. The international team behind the discovery also found that… Read More - Research News
Crystal Imperfections Reveal Rich New Phases of Familiar Matter
Matter—all the stuff we see around us—can be classified into familiar phases: our chairs are solid, our coffee is liquid, and the oxygen we breathe is a gas. This grouping obscures the nitty gritty details of what each molecule or atom is up to… Read More - Research News
New Study Identifies Mechanism Driving the Sun’s Fast Wind
The fastest winds ever recorded on Earth reached more than 200 miles per hour, but even those gusts pale in comparison to the sun’s wind. In a paper published June 7, 2023 in the journal Nature, a team of researchers used data from NASA’s… Read More - Research News
Insight into How Cells Get Signals from Physical Senses Could Lead to New Disease Treatments
The body’s cells are constantly receiving and reacting to signals from their environment. A lot is known about how a cell senses and responds to chemical signals, or biomolecules, such as COVID-19. But little is known about how signals from the physical environment, like… Read More
- Physics is Phun: The Physics of Light
- Physics on the Field
On a Saturday in April 2023, an unusual event unfolded on the grassy greens by the University of Maryland’s Memorial Chapel. Nearly 50 students, staff and faculty gathered to play in the inaugural Physics Champions League, an amateur soccer tournament run by the UMD Physics Undergraduate Committee (PUC). Created to bring together ph 
sics majors looking for some outdoor fun,
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Nov 16, 2023 Losert Named MPower Professor Wolfgang Losert has been named an MPower Professor. Three professors from UMD and from the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) received this distinction from the University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State (MPower), which recognizes, incentivizes, and fosters collaborations between the two institutions. Losert holds… Read More -
Nov 10, 2023 Eno Elected to Leadership Line Sarah Eno has been elected to the leadership track of the American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields (APS DPF). She will serve as vice-chair from 2024-26, followed by two years as division chair.Eno has worked on several collider experiments. In 1993, she joined UMD… Read More -
Oct 25, 2023 Milchberg Receives APS Schawlow Prize Professor Howard Milchberg has been awarded the 2024 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science, presented by the American Physical Society (APS), for “pioneering contributions in the fields of plasma optics, guiding the ultra-intense laser beams, and developing compact, high-gradient laser-driven accelerators”. Over the past year, Milchberg… Read More -
Nov 10, 2023 Buonanno to Receive Oskar Klein Medal Research Professor Alessandra Buonanno will receive the 2023 Oskar Klein Medal by the Stockholm University and the Nobel Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Each year, a distinguished physicist is invited to deliver the Memorial Lecture and to receive the Oskar Klein medal. Buonanno will… Read More
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