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Outstanding Research Contributions into Interactive Quantum Systems Wins the Leibniz Prize

The new recipients of Germany's most prestigious research funding prize have been announced: On Thursday, 6 December 2012 the Joint Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) named eleven researchers – two women and nine men – as winners of the 2013 Leibniz Prize.

15 Dec 2012

New Form of Three-Particle Quantum Entanglement

Physicists at the University of Calgary and at the Institute for Quantum Computing in Waterloo have published new research in Nature Physics which builds on the original ideas of Einstein and adds a new ingredient: a third entangled particle.

15 Dec 2012

International Scientists Collaborate on the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment

Robert J. Wilson, professor at Colorado State University, has been selected to help lead the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment - an international science collaboration - for the next two years.

15 Dec 2012

Scientists Searching for Higgs Boson Report Small Discrepancies

Scientists searching for the Higgs boson on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva are reporting small discrepancies from the two main channels they use to look for the particle.

14 Dec 2012

The Standard Model of Particle Contains 12 Fermions

How many matter particles exist in nature? Particle physicists have been dealing with this question for a long time. The 12 matter particles contained in the standard model of particle physics? Or are there further particles with too high a mass to be produced by the experiments performed so far? These questions are now answered by researchers of KIT, CERN, and Humboldt University in the current issue of the Physical Review Letters. (DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.241802)

14 Dec 2012

Black Hole Jets Share Striking Similarities Regardless of Mass, Age or Environment

Black holes range from modest objects formed when individual stars end their lives to behemoths billions of times more massive that rule the centers of galaxies. A new study using data from NASA's Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope shows that high-speed jets launched from active black holes possess fundamental similarities regardless of mass, age or environment. The result provides a tantalizing hint that common physical processes are at work.

14 Dec 2012

CQT and New Scientist Magazine Launch Competition for Short Films Inspired by Quantum Physics

In July, the Centre for Quantum Technologies in partnership with New Scientist magazine launched a competition for short films inspired by quantum physics.

14 Dec 2012

UB Researchers Celebrate the Discovery of New Subatomic Particle

UB researchers drew a crowd of about 100 people to HiggsFest, an event held last week that celebrated the discovery of the Higgs boson, an important new subatomic particle.

14 Dec 2012

The Centre for Quantum Technologies Presents CQTian of the Year 2012 Award

The Centre for Quantum Technologies likes to celebrate the achievements of its staff, scientific or otherwise. Two awards were made on 12 December to people who shine for their contributions to the CQT community: Evon Tan, Admin Executive, was named CQTian of the Year 2012 for all she does to keep the Centre running smoothly, and Troy Lee, Senior Research Fellow, was selected from a crop of excellent performers as the winner in the CQT's Got Talent competition.

14 Dec 2012

Physicists Win International Awards for Research on Quantum Properties of Black Holes

Davide Gaiotto, a Perimeter Institute faculty member, and Stephen Hawking, a Perimeter Distinguished Visiting Research Chair, along with other celebrated physicists, have been awarded prizes from the Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation. Gaiotto has won a $100,000 New Horizons in Physics Prize for emerging work as a young researcher, and Stephen Hawking was awarded a $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize for his work on black holes.

From Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics 14 Dec 2012

Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Discusses Doomsday Prophecies

This year's winter solstice will take place on Dec. 21, the same date on which some believe the world will come to an end, coinciding with the end of the Mayan long-count calendar. Doomsday prophecies even prompted NASA to address people's concerns. Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Ned Ladd says the world will end, just not this month.

13 Dec 2012

Bingeing Black Hole Sheds New Light on X-ray Sources in Other Galaxies

The discovery of a bingeing black hole that is expelling powerful beams of material has shed new light on some of the brightest X-ray sources seen in other galaxies, according to new research led by Durham University.

13 Dec 2012

Scientists Use LCLS X-ray Laser to Study Massive Cosmic Phenomena

Scientists have used powerful X-rays from the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, to study and measure, in atomic detail, a key process at work in extreme plasmas like those found in stars, the rims of black holes and other massive cosmic phenomena.

13 Dec 2012

Colossal Black Hole is 10 Times More Massive than Sun

For the first time, astronomers have found a microquasar -- a black hole devouring material from a companion star -- in a galaxy beyond our own Milky Way. The object, pumping out X-rays and bright bursts of radio waves, ...

13 Dec 2012