- Research News
New Approach to Information Transfer Reaches Quantum Speed Limit
Even though quantum computers are a young technology and aren’t yet ready for routine practical use, researchers have already been investigating the theoretical constraints that will bound quantum technologies. One of the things researchers have discovered is that there are limits to how quickly… Read More - Research News
Neuromorphics for Network Discovery
From neurons connected by axons to Facebook profiles connected by friendships, interaction networks lie all around us. In new work recently published in Physical Review X, Amitava Banerjee, Joseph D. Hart, Rajarshi Roy and Edward Ott applied machine learning tools to formulate and test a new approach to… Read More - Research News
Unconventional Superconductor Acts the Part of a Promising Quantum Computing Platform
Scientists on the hunt for an unconventional kind of superconductor have produced the most compelling evidence to date that they’ve found one. In a pair of papers, researchers at the University of Maryland’s (UMD) Quantum Materials Center (QMC) and colleagues have shown that uranium… Read More - Research News
Time Delay Acquires a New Dimension
Physicists love to do scattering experiments. When they are trying to figure out a new force of nature, or discover a new particle, they fire up the accelerator and shoot tiny particles at their target, and measure what comes out. Usually they carefully measure… Read More - 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
- Student Spotlight
- Graduate Student Spotlight
Kate Sturge knew one thing for sure when she began her freshman year at the University of Maryland: she loved physics. So, when she received an email inviting her to apply for the First-Year Innovation and Research Experience (FIRE) program, she immediately searched for an option that would allow her to do physics research.
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junior physics and astronomy dual-degree student ultimately selected the Simulating Particle Detection (SPD) stream—one of FIRE’s 15 groups that offer first-year UMD students a faculty-mentored
Before this summer, going to college seemed impossible to Casey Claveria, a rising senior at Quince Orchard High School in Gaithersburg, Maryland. A problem-solver at heart, Claveria was set on a career in STEM but did not know how to get there. A University of Maryland program called PROPEL—Physics Research Opportunity for Promoting Equity in Learning—changed that.
PROPEL aims to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in physics by exposing high school students to cutting-edge university research. When UMD’s Department
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Sep 7, 2021 John S. Toll Endowed Lecture in Physics Honors a Culture of Excellence, Curiosity and Collaboration John Toll (1923-2011) knew how to bring talented people together to build something bigger than themselves. As chair of the University of Maryland’s Department of Physics and Astronomy from 1953 to 1965, Toll recruited dozens of top-tier scientists to catapult the department onto an international… Read More -
Sep 7, 2021 Research Projects Open Doors for High School Students Before this summer, going to college seemed impossible to Casey Claveria, a rising senior at Quince Orchard High School in Gaithersburg, Maryland. A problem-solver at heart, Claveria was set on a career in STEM but did not know how to get there. A University of… Read More -
Sep 7, 2021 Elevating the Humble Neutrino Rabindra Mohapatra wants “neutrino” to be a household word. “This is a very fascinating particle,” he said. “Neutrinos are so tiny, there are billions of them passing through us every second, and they interact so weakly, we even can’t tell. But the neutrino is pretty… Read More -
Sep 7, 2021 Quantum Materials Center’s Silent Hero Recognized with College Award When responding to an interview request for this story, Douglas Bensen (B.S. ’85, industrial education), who has worked at the University of Maryland for 35 years, warned that he might be a boring subject. His title on the Department of Physics website is the generic… Read More
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