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26 Apr 2024 | News
New key to the world of quantum mechanics: the intensity of light affects electrons’ kinetic energy
Particles, sometimes a long way from one another, can be entangled. This strange phenomenon completely confounds our intuition, but the explanation for it has been provided through...
4 Apr 2024 | News
Two physicists become new Wallenberg Scholars
Vanya Darakchieva, Professor of Semiconductor Materials, and Heiner Linke, Professor of Nanophysics, have been named Wallenberg Scholars, a programme funded by the Knut and Alice W...
23 Feb 2024 | News
New super-simulation of how galaxies are formed
Astronomers can use supercomputers to simulate the formation of galaxies from the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago to the present day. But there are a number of sources of error. An...
20 Feb 2024 | News
Detecting "Spooky Action at a Distance" with imperfect detectors
Entanglement, once dismissed by Einstein as an impossible phenomenon but later shown to be possible by Nobel Prize-winning physicists, continues to raise questions. How can we know...
13 Feb 2024 | News
New way of designing circuits could lead to large-scale quantum computers
By utilising quantum mechanics, a quantum computer can solve computational problems that today's supercomputers cannot. But there are problems. As the circuits in quantum computers...