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Research Team Realize and Analyze Exotic Quasiparticle

In quantum physics physical processes in condensed matter and other many-body systems can often be described with quasiparticles. In Innsbruck, for the first time Rudolf Grimm’s team of physicists has succeeded in experimentally realizing a new quasiparticle - a repulsive polaron - in an ultracold quantum gas. The scientists have published their results in the online issue of the journal Nature.

24 May 2012

STRINGS 2012, The Annual String Theory Conference, Takes Place at LMU Munich in July

Hundreds of string theorists meet each year to discuss their research at an international conference. STRINGS 2012 takes place in Munich, and is organized jointly by LMU Munich, the Max-Planck Institute for Physics, the ...

23 May 2012

Innsbruck Researchers Create First Bose-Einstein Condensate of Erbium

Francesca Ferlaino’s research team at the University of Innsbruck is the first to successfully create a condensate of the exotic element erbium. The Innsbruck experimental physicists hold the world record in attaining the first Bose-Einstein condensates of different chemical elements.

22 May 2012

Advanced Spectroscopy Confirms Quantum Predictions for Behaviour of Water Molecules

Water is the most abundant and one of the most frequently studied substances on Earth, yet its geometry at the molecular level - the simple two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, and how they interact with other molecules, including other water - has remained somewhat of a mystery to chemists.

18 May 2012

Researchers from the University of Zurich discover new particle at CERN

Physicists from the University of Zurich have discovered a previously unknown particle composed of three quarks in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator. A new baryon could thus be detected for the first t...

27 Apr 2012

Physicists Simulate Strongly Correlated Fermions

Combining known factors in a new way, theoretical physicists Boris Svistunov and Nikolai Prokof’ev at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with three alumni of their group, have solved an intractable 50-year-old problem: How to simulate strongly interacting quantum systems to allow accurate predictions of their properties.

18 Mar 2012

Quantum Criticality Provides Insights into Cosmology

University of Chicago physicists have experimentally demonstrated for the first time that atoms chilled to temperatures near absolute zero may behave like seemingly unrelated natural systems of vastly different scales

18 Mar 2012

Lancaster Quantum Technology Centre to Use Etch Tools from Oxford Instruments

Lancaster University based in the UK is populating part of its new world-class Lancaster Quantum Technology Centre (LQTC) with Oxford Instruments’ plasma systems as part of its strategy for the development of physical sciences.

21 Feb 2012

Work on Nano Diamonds Recognised with Research Award

Macquarie University presented its annual Research Awards at a special awards ceremony held on campus on Wednesday evening. Amongst the award winners was Dr James Rabeau whose team won an award for research into nano diamonds.

13 Oct 2011

Kiel Researchers Discover Exotic Quantum Crystal

Nature knows two opposite types of solids: one that emerges upon compression from a liquid and a second that appears if the pressure on a liquid is reduced. Now it has been shown that there exists yet a third form of matter that inherits both of these properties.

10 Aug 2011