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Sudden Breakups of Monogamous Quantum Couples Surprise Researchers
Quantum particles have a social life, of a sort. They interact and form relationships with each other, and one of the most important features of a quantum particle is whether it is an introvert—a fermion—or an extrovert—a boson. Extroverted bosons are happy to crowd… Read More - Research News
When Superfluids Collide, Physicists Find a Mix of Old and New
Physics is often about recognizing patterns, sometimes repeated across vastly different scales. For instance, moons orbit planets in the same way planets orbit stars, which in turn orbit the center of a galaxy. When researchers first studied the structure of atoms, they were tempted… Read More - Research News
With Passive Approach, New Chips Reliably Unlock Color Conversion
Over the past several decades, researchers have been making rapid progress in harnessing light to enable all sorts of scientific and industrial applications. From creating stupendously accurate clocks to processing the petabytes of information zipping through data centers, the demand for turnkey technologies that… Read More - Research News
Researchers Identify Groovy Way to Beat Diffraction Limit
Physics is full of pesky limits. There are speed limits, like the speed of light. There are limits on how much matter and energy can be crammed into a region of space before it collapses into a black hole. There are even limits on… Read More - Research News
Researchers Imagine Novel Quantum Foundations for Gravity
Questioning assumptions and imagining new explanations for familiar phenomena are often necessary steps on the way to scientific progress. For example, humanity’s understanding of gravity has been overturned multiple times. For ages, people assumed heavier objects always fall quicker than lighter objects. Eventually, Galileo… Read More - Research News
Researchers Spy Finish Line in Race for Majorana Qubits
Our computer age is built on a foundation of semiconductors. As researchers and engineers look toward a new generation of computers that harness quantum physics, they are exploring various foundations for the burgeoning technology. Almost every computer on earth, from a pocket calculator to… Read More - Research News
Superconductivity’s Halo: Physicists Map Rare High-field Phase
A puzzling form of superconductivity that arises only under strong magnetic fields has been mapped and explained by a research team of UMD, NIST and Rice University including professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University. Their findings, published in Science July 31, detail how uranium… Read More - Research News
A Cosmic Photographer: Decades of Work to Get the Perfect Shot
John Mather, a College Park Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland and a senior astrophysicist at NASA, has made a career of looking to the heavens. He has led projects that have revealed invisible stories written across the sky and helped us… Read More - Research News
New Protocol Demonstrates and Verifies Quantum Speedups in a Jiffy
While breakthrough results over the past few years have garnered headlines proclaiming the dawn of quantum supremacy, they have also masked a nagging problem that researchers have been staring at for decades: Demonstrating the advantages of a quantum computer is only half the battle;… Read More
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Remembering and Giving Back It’s been more than 30 years, but Jeff Saul (M.S. ’91, Ph.D. ’98, physics) still remembers the week that changed his life. “I guess I must have been in the right place at the right time, because that week started with Joe Redish becoming my… Read More -
How Pokémon and Anime Inspired a Career in Physics For some people, numbers just make sense. That’s always been the case for Samuel Márquez González (B.S. ’25, physics). Márquez remembers his quantitative curiosity first sparking while he was playing Pokémon video games in elementary school. Inspired by his favorite character, Pancham, a pubescent dark-… Read More -
Air Force Veteran Rekindles His Passion for Science at UMD Morgan Smith (B.S. ’25, physics) wasn’t your typical undergraduate student. Before he even began his undergraduate degree at the University of Maryland at age 29, he’d traveled the United States and dedicated six years to serving his country in the military. After graduating high school… Read More -
How Physics Powers EA’s Next-Gen Video Games What does quantum research have to do with video game graphics? Well, nothing—at least not directly, according to William Donnelly (Ph.D. '12, physics). Donnelly conducted quantum entanglement and gravity research for his dissertation at the University of Maryland and is now a senior rendering researcher… Read More
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