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Cold Atoms Offer a Glimpse of Flat Physics
In a pair of papers published this week in Physical Review Letters, Physics researcher and JQI Fellow Alexey Gorshkov, along with several collaborators, proposed new ways of studying flat physics. Read More -
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Researchers Measure Casimir Torque for the First Time
Physics researchers and members of the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics worked with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering to measure for the first time an effect that was predicted more than 40 years ago, called the Casimir torque. Read More -
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Four New Gravitational Wave Events Detected from Black Hole Mergers
The Virgo Collaboration and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, which includes UMD Physics Professors Peter Shawhan and Alessandra Buonanno, announced the detection of four new gravitational wave events from black hole mergers. (Image: LIGO-Virgo/Frank Elavsky/Northwestern) Read More -
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Fast-flowing electrons may mimic astrophysical dynamos
A powerful engine roils deep beneath our feet, converting energy in the Earth’s core into magnetic fields that shield us from the solar wind. Similar engines drive the magnetic activity of the sun, other stars and even other planets—all of which create magnetic fields… Read More -
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Mountaintop Observatory Sees Gamma Rays from Exotic Milky Way Object
The HAWC collaboration has detected highly energetic light coming from the outermost regions of an unusual star system within our own galaxy. The source is microquasar SS 433—a black hole that is gobbling up stuff from a nearby companion star and blasting out two… Read More -
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Modified Superconductor Synapse Reveals Exotic Electron Behavior
Electrons tend to avoid one another as they go about their business carrying current. But certain devices, cooled to near zero temperature, can coax these loner particles out of their shells. In extreme cases, electrons will interact in unusual ways, causing strange quantum entities… Read More -
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Pristine Quantum Light Source Created at the Edge of Silicon Chip
Protected Pathways for Light Offer a way to Streamline Single Photon Production. The smallest amount of light you can have is one photon, so dim that it’s pretty much invisible to humans. While imperceptible, these tiny blips of energy are useful for carrying quantum… Read More -
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LHC Scientists Finally Detect Most Favored Higgs Decay
Scientists now know the fate of the vast majority of all Higgs bosons produced in the LHC. Today at CERN, the Large Hadron Collider experiments ATLAS and CMS jointly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson transforming into bottom quarks as it decays. This… Read More -
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JQI Scientists Monroe and Gorshkov are Part of a New, $15 Million NSF Quantum Computing Project
NSF has announced a $15 million award to a collaboration of seven institutions including the University of Maryland. The goal: Build the world’s first practical quantum computer. "Quantum computers will change everything about the technology we use and how we use it, and we… Read More
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The University of Maryland chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) has won an Outstanding Chapter Award from the SPS National Office. This is the fifth time the chapter has been recognized for its excellence as a
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On the MD STEM Festival Podcast, Donna Hammer and Oluchi Ofoha discuss the many outreach programs run by the University of Maryland Department of Physics. Listen here.
Department News
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Jan 10, 2019
Christopher Monroe Quoted in Gizmodo Article on IBM's New Quantum Computer
Distinguished University Professor & Bice Seci-Zorn Professor Christopher Monroe was quoted in the Gizmodo article, "Why Experts Are Skeptical of IBM's New Commercial Quantum Computer," which explores "Q System One, or as the IBM team described it, “the world’s first fully integrated universal quantum computing system designed…
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Jan 10, 2019
Third Annual Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Winter School
The University of Maryland Department of Physics will host the third annual Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Winter School and Workshop January 14th to the 18th at the University of Maryland. The Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Winter School and Workshop is an annual event unique to North America, dedicated…
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Dec 5, 2018
Sankar Das Sarma and Ian Spielman Named 2018 Highly Cited Researchers
Sankar Das Sarma and Ian Spielman join six other faculty members in the University of Maryland’s College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences included on Clarivate Analytics’ 2018 list of Highly Cited Researchers, a compilation of influential names in science. Sankar Das Sarma is a Richard E. Prange…
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Nov 6, 2018
Sundrum Win APS Sakurai Prize
The American Physical Society awarded its 2019 J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics to Raman Sundrum, a Distinguished University Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland. Sundrum’s collaborator on two key papers, Harvard University Physics Professor Lisa Randall, also received the award. Sundrum…
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