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UTA Professor Named Fellow of the American Physical Society

University of Texas at Arlington physics professor Kaushik De has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society for his work in developing cloud computing architectures that enabled global collaboration and big data analysis on the ATLAS experiment at CERN.

19 Oct 2015

Atomic Clocks Could Enable Ultra-Powerful Quantum Computers

An advanced atomic clock will neither gain nor lose a single second over the lifespan of the universe. Why does such incredible precision matter? On Nov. 4, join Nobel Laureate David Wineland as he discusses how atomic clocks – including an emerging breed of laser-based optical clocks – may enable revolutionary new technologies, including ultra-powerful quantum computers.

19 Oct 2015

Genetically Engineered Viruses Enhance Transport of Excitons using Quantum Coherence

Nature has had billions of years to perfect photosynthesis, which directly or indirectly supports virtually all life on Earth. In that time, the process has achieved almost 100 percent efficiency in transporting the energy of sunlight from receptors to reaction centers where it can be harnessed — a performance vastly better than even the best solar cells.

16 Oct 2015

Berkeley Lab Scientists and Engineers had Played Key Roles in Nobel Prize-Winning Neutrino Research

“If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants” – Sir Isaac Newton

16 Oct 2015

A Little Bit of Background Starlight Still Manages to Get Through Coalsack Nebula

The Coalsack Nebula is located about 600 light-years away in the constellation of Crux. This huge, dusky object forms a conspicuous silhouette against the bright, starry band of the Milky Way and for this reason the nebula has been known to people in the southern hemisphere for as long as our species has existed.

16 Oct 2015

Dwarf Planet Ceres Could be a Cosmic Dartboard

A new set of high-velocity impact experiments suggests that the dwarf planet Ceres may be something of a cosmic dartboard: Projectiles that slam into it tend to stick.

16 Oct 2015

Ancient Galaxies Were More Efficient at Star Formation

Galaxies forming stars at extreme rates nine billion years ago were more efficient than average galaxies today, researchers find.

16 Oct 2015

Ramanujan's Taxi-Cab Number Linked to String Theory and Quantum Physics

Taxi-cab numbers, among the most beloved integers in math, trace their origins to 1918 and what seemed like a casual insight by the Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. Now mathematicians at Emory University have discovered that Ramanujan did not just identify the first taxi-cab number - 1729 - and its quirky properties. He showed how the number relates to elliptic curves and K3 surfaces - objects important today in string theory and quantum physics.

16 Oct 2015

CMS Collaboration Reports on Very First Particle Collisions of Large Hadron Collider’s Second Run

After a two-year hiatus, the Large Hadron Collider, the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world, began its second run of experiments in June, smashing together subatomic particles at 13 teraelectronvolts (TeV) -- the highest energy ever achieved in a laboratory. Physicists hope that such high-energy collisions may produce completely new particles, and potentially simulate the conditions that were seen in the early universe.

16 Oct 2015

Researchers Prove Bounded L2 Curvature Conjecture, Could Help Solve Einstein Equations

Proposed 15 years ago, the bounded L2 curvature conjecture has finally been proved by a group of three researchers at the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions (CNRS / UPMC / Université Paris Diderot) and Princeton University. It provides a potentially minimal framework in which it is possible to solve the Einstein equations, which in turn could be a critical step toward the proof of major conjectures, such as Penrose’s cosmic censorship conjectures. This work was published in Inventiones Mathematicae on October 14.

16 Oct 2015

Studying Changes in Comet's Tail Could Help Solve Solar Wind Mysteries

We can't see the wind, but we can learn about it by observing things that are being blown about. And by studying changes in a comet's bright tail of gas and ions, scientists are on the trail to solving two big mysteries about the solar wind, the supersonic outflow of electrically charged gas from the Sun's million-degree upper atmosphere or corona.

15 Oct 2015

Wayne State Professor Elected APS Fellow for Contributions to Heavy Flavor Physics

Wayne State University Physics and Astronomy Professor Alexey A. Petrov has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) for “contributions to heavy flavor physics, in particular studies of charm quarks and contributions to indirect searches for physics beyond the Standard Model.”

15 Oct 2015

Dedication Enables Detection of Neutrinos

As a graduate student Peter Wittich, associate professor of physics, worked at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO), located in an active nickel mine in Ontario, Canada. The observatory is deep underground to block out background radiation from other particles.

15 Oct 2015

Brookhaven Physicist Named Blavatnik Regional Award Finalist for Work Exploring Fundamental Nuclear Physics

Physicist Dennis Perepelitsa, a Goldhaber Distinguished Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been named a 2015 Blavatnik Regional Award Finalist in Physical Sciences & Engineering.

15 Oct 2015

New Resonator That Focuses Electrons Holds Promise for Quantum Computers

More than two thousand years ago the Greek inventor and philosopher Archimedes already came up with the idea of using a curved mirror to reflect light in such a way as to focus it into a point – legend has it that he used this technique to set fire to the ships of the Roman enemies.

15 Oct 2015

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UTA Professor Named Fellow of the American Physical Society

Atomic Clocks Could Enable Ultra-Powerful Quantum Computers

Genetically Engineered Viruses Enhance Transport of Excitons using Quantum Coherence

Berkeley Lab Scientists and Engineers had Played Key Roles in Nobel Prize-Winning Neutrino Research

A Little Bit of Background Starlight Still Manages to Get Through Coalsack Nebula

Dwarf Planet Ceres Could be a Cosmic Dartboard

Ancient Galaxies Were More Efficient at Star Formation

Ramanujan's Taxi-Cab Number Linked to String Theory and Quantum Physics

CMS Collaboration Reports on Very First Particle Collisions of Large Hadron Collider’s Second Run

Researchers Prove Bounded L2 Curvature Conjecture, Could Help Solve Einstein Equations

Studying Changes in Comet's Tail Could Help Solve Solar Wind Mysteries

Wayne State Professor Elected APS Fellow for Contributions to Heavy Flavor Physics

Dedication Enables Detection of Neutrinos

Brookhaven Physicist Named Blavatnik Regional Award Finalist for Work Exploring Fundamental Nuclear Physics

New Resonator That Focuses Electrons Holds Promise for Quantum Computers

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