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JQI Undergraduate Receives IPST Monroe Martin Prize

Michael Kossin, an undergraduate who works with JQI Fellow Luis Orozco, has been awarded an IPST Monroe Martin Prize for Undergraduate Research in Physics for his paper, "Production of a Polarizing Millimeter-Wave Fabry-Perot Resonator.” He also earned Departmental High Honors. This summer Kossin will work with Professor Alejandro Garcia at the University of Washington, whose research involves weak interactions in the nucleus. Kossin plans to attend graduate school in 2016.

27 May 2015

New Calculations by UAH Astrophysicist Throw Light on Fluid Dynamics

New calculations by a theoretical astrophysicist at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) provide tools that open a door to exploring the history of events in astrophysical flows and in plasma fusion devices described by magnetohydrodynamics (MHD).

27 May 2015

Highly Stable, Squeezed Schrödinger Cats Hold Promise for Quantum Computers

Quantum physics is full of fascinating phenomena. Take, for instance, the cat from the famous thought experiment by the physicist Erwin Schrodinger. The cat can be dead and alive at once, since its life depends on the quantum mechanically determined state of a radioactively decaying atom which, in turn, releases toxic gas into the cat's cage. As long as one hasn't measured the state of the atom, one knows nothing about the poor cat's health either - atom and kitty are intimately "entangled" with each other.

27 May 2015

Supernovas Work in Tandem with Huge Black Holes to 'Clean' Galaxies

Supernovas just might be the maid service of the universe.

27 May 2015

Mixing Matter with Anti-Matter May Help Solve Quarks Arrangement Puzzle

Fans of science and science fiction have been warned that mixing matter with anti-matter can yield explosive results. And that’s just what physicists were counting on, in hopes of blowing wide open a puzzle that has confounded them for the last decade.

26 May 2015

Continuous-Variable Quantum Systems Allow Parallel Transmission of Information

Scientists at the University of York's Centre for Quantum Technology have made an important step in establishing scalable and secure high rate quantum networks.

26 May 2015

Undulator Frames Begin to Arrive at SwissFEL Building

The first undulator frames have arrived at the SwissFEL building. They will take around six months to assemble, after which the finished undulators will be taken to the SwissFEL accelerator tunnel for installation.

25 May 2015

Rice Merges Rice Quantum Institute and Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology

Rice University is merging two of its multidisciplinary research institutes, the Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology and the Rice Quantum Institute, to form a new entity, the Smalley-Curl Institute.

25 May 2015

Scientists Measure Intrinsic Angular Momentum and Parity of Sub-Atomic Particle Lambda

First identified more than 50 years ago, the sub-atomic particle called Lambda(1405) was routinely seen in experiments, yet two of its key characteristics were too difficult to measure. For the first time, scientists measured these descriptors, intrinsic angular momentum and parity.

22 May 2015

As Liquid Water Becomes Supercooled it Does Not Become Completely Unstable

Water behaves in mysterious ways. Especially below zero, where it is dubbed supercooled water, before it turns into ice. Physicists have recently observed the spontaneous first steps of the ice formation process, as tiny crystal clusters as small as 15 molecules start to exhibit the recognisable structural pattern of crystalline ice.

22 May 2015