PHYSICS
- Physicists Propose a New Kind of Laser That Would Fire Neutrinosby Kim Heatley on 16/04/2026
Physicists have proposed a new way to make neutrinos at accelerated rates. This method would use a state of matter close to absolute zero called a Bose-Einstein condensate. It would harness quantum effects that can produce neutrinos faster than ordinary radioactive decays. This tool would […]
- MIT Estimates 3 Parameters With Quantum Sensorby Kim Heatley on 15/04/2026
https://quantumzeitgeist.com/entangled-quantum-sensor-mit-estimates/ Paola Cappellaro, Boning Li, The post MIT Estimates 3 Parameters With Quantum Sensor appeared first on MIT Physics.
- MIT faculty, alumni receive 2025-26 American Physical Society honorsby admin on 15/04/2026
The American Physical Society (APS) recently honored two MIT faculty members — professors Yoel Fink PhD ’00 and Mehran Kardar PhD ’83 — as well as six alumni with prizes and awards for their contributions to physics and academic leadership. In addition, several MIT faculty members — […]
- Multitasking quantum sensors can measure several properties at onceby admin on 15/04/2026
A special class of sensors leverages quantum properties to measure tiny signals at levels that would be impossible using classical sensors alone. Such quantum sensors are currently being used to study the inner workings of cells and the outer depths of our universe. Particularly promising are […]
- How strange new ‘altermagnets’ could rewrite physicsby Kim Heatley on 14/04/2026
Jiaruo Li, grad student, Comin Photo Scattering Lab, exotic magnetism, p-wave magnetism, p-wave magnets, altermagnets, spin, ferromagnet, antiferromagnets, giant magnetoresistance, GMR, spintronics, MRAM, spin polarization, anomalous Hall effect, Riccardo Comin, symmetry, Qian Song PhD ’23, […]
- Physicists zero in on the mass of the fundamental W boson particleby admin on 08/04/2026
When fundamental particles are heavier or lighter than expected, physicists’ understanding of the universe can tip into the unknown. A particle that is just beyond its predicted mass can unravel scientists’ assumptions about the forces that make up all of matter and space. But now, a new […]
- Experiments dim hopes for sterile neutrinosby Kim Heatley on 08/04/2026
A new generation of neutrino experiments has failed to confirm earlier hints of “sterile” neutrinos, making the simplest version of the theory increasingly unlikely while leaving room for more complex possibilities. For physicist Janet Conrad, who has long pursued these elusive particles, the […]
- Keeping Perfect Timeby Kim Heatley on 07/04/2026
The vibration of an atom is nature’s steadiest timekeeper; today’s atomic clocks underpin GPS, communications, and electronics worldwide. “But we and other scientists are constantly refining and chasing even more perfect time,” Professor Vladan Vuletić says. What if time could be measured […]
- Electrons in moiré crystals explore higher-dimensional quantum worldsby admin on 04/04/2026
The electrons that power our society flow left and right through the circuitry in our electronics, back and forth along the transmission lines that make up our power grid, and up and down to light up every floor of every building. But the electrons in newly discovered “moiré crystals” move in […]
- Kiyoshi Masui Helps Transform Deep-Space Signals into Cathedral Soundby Kim Heatley on 03/04/2026
Opening on Easter Sunday, The Logos invites visitors to experience deep-space phenomena not as distant abstractions, but as something immediate and resonant. The project is led by artist and creative technologist Andrew Melchior in collaboration with MIT Associate Professor of Physics, Kiyoshi […]
- EPJ QT Highlight - Teaching quantum entanglement with card gamesby sabine.lehr@springer.com (EPJ) on 10/02/2026
Understanding violation to Bell’s Inequality with a card game Simple interactive activities help non-expert audiences to grasp the core concepts of quantum entanglement and the Nobel Prize-winning experiments that proved how quantum mechanics defies classical physics Even compared with other […]
- EPJ QT Highlight - Exploring the full-stack design space of quantum computingby sabine.lehr@springer.com (EPJ) on 10/02/2026
Illustration of fidelity vs. connectivity across benchmarks as facets comparing three crosstalk models, thermal relaxation, and depolarisation noise for the heavy-hex back-end topology. In-depth analysis shows that co-designing hardware and software is essential for optimising quantum […]
- EPJ QT Highlight - Progress in terrestrial very long baseline atom interferometryby sabine.lehr@springer.com (EPJ) on 12/05/2025
Atom interferometers (here labelled AION, AEDGE and AEDGE+) fill a crucial frequency gap in gravitational wave detection, in the deci-Herz range. The second of a series of workshops, held in London in April 2024, saw over 250 experts make progress towards a blueprint for a kilometre-long atom […]
- EPJ QT Highlight - Generating true randomness with quantum measurementsby sabine.lehr@springer.com (EPJ) on 10/02/2025
Inherent randomness in photon detection times A new approach can generate random information with extremely high efficiency through a process involving the emission and subsequent detection of single photons From simulation to cryptography, randomness is a vital resource in many areas of […]
- EPJ QT Highlight - Access to burgeoning quantum technology field could be widened by open master educational modelby sabine.lehr@springer.com (EPJ) on 04/03/2024
The operation of the Open Master pilot scheme. Credit: S. Goorney, et al., EPJ Quantum Technology, (2024) Quantum technology offers major societal benefits, but its growth depends on the supply of a qualified workforce. Quantum Technology is based on the engineering of devices that make use […]
- EPJ Quantum Technology: New Review Article The Deep Space Quantum Link (DSQL)by sabine.lehr@springer.com (EPJ) on 12/10/2022
A new review lays out a roadmap for quantum technologies. Credit: Robert Lea Space-based quantum optical links support future networking applications for quantum sensing, quantum communications, and quantum information science. In addition, such links enable new scientific experiments […]
- EPJ QT Highlight - Quantum control for advanced technology: Past and presentby sabine.lehr@springer.com (EPJ) on 29/07/2022
A new review lays out a roadmap for quantum technologies. Credit: Robert Lea Quantum devices are a promising technological advance for the future, but this will hinge on the application of quantum optimal control top real-world devices. A new review looks at the status of the field as it […]
- EPJ QT Highlight - Steps towards post-quantum security by Aleksey Fedorovby sabine.lehr@springer.com (EPJ) on 21/07/2021
Aleksey Fedorov Prof. Dr. Aleksey Fedorov is a Junior Principal Investigator at the Russian Quantum Center, Professor of Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and founder of startup companies in quantum technologies. His research is related to quantum information technologies […]
- Welcoming Prof. Kai Bongs as new Editor-in-Chief of EPJ Quantum Technologyby sabine.lehr@springer.com (EPJ) on 26/01/2018
Kai Bongs It is with great pleasure that we announce that Professor Kai Bongs from the University of Birmingham, UK, has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of EPJ Quantum Technology. Prof. Bongs is the director of the UK National Quantum Technology Hub in Sensors and Metrology, a consortium of […]
- EPJ QT Highlight - How does Earth’s spacetime deformation affect quantum communications?by sabine.lehr@springer.com (EPJ) on 30/05/2017
Credit: CQT, National University of Singapore Jan Kohlrus investigates relativitic effects to consider when setting up quantum communication systems. The interplay and overlap between relativity and quantum theory are among the most complex and challenging open problems of modern theoretical […]
- EPJD Topical Issue : Exploring dissociative electron attachment: Insights from the 4th DEA Club Meeting (2024)by muriel.bouquant@edpsciences.org (Muriel Bouquant) on 16/04/2026
Guest Editors: João Ameixa, Juraj Fedor, Ilko Bald, Nigel Mason, Sylwia Ptasinska The Topical Issue "Exploring Dissociative Electron Attachment: Insights from the 4th DEA Club Meeting", highlights recent contributions by the dissociative electron attachment (DEA) community, which were conceived […]
- Anna Grigoryan new representative of the EPS Young Minds in EPJ Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC)by sandrine.karpe@edpsciences.org (Sandrine Karpe) on 24/03/2026
The Steering Committee of EPJ is delighted to welcome Anna Grigoryan, as the representative of the EPS Young Minds which joined the Scientific Advisory Committee two years ago. She is replacing Carlos Damián Rodríguez Fernández. The scientific community is pleased to highlight Anna […]
- EPJ Web of Conferences Highlight – 18th European Workshop on Modern Developments and Applications in Microbeam Analysisby elodie.guillaud@edpsciences.org (Elodie Guillaud) on 20/03/2026
The 18th European Workshop EMAS 2025, Mataró, Spain. The 18th Workshop of the European Microbeam Analysis Society (EMAS) on Modern Developments and Applications in Microbeam Analysis took place in Mataró, Spain from 11-15 May 2025. The EMAS European Workshops have been organized every […]
- Farewell Antonino Zichichiby sabine.lehr@springer.com (EPJ) on 18/03/2026
Antonino Zichichi© Società Italiana di Fisica - SIF Professor Emeritus at the University of Bologna, Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europaea and the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna, and founder of the "Ettore Majorana" Centre for Scientific Culture […]
- EPJ Plus Highlight - Image processing brings new clarity to RTe3’s electronic structureby sabine.lehr@springer.com (EPJ) on 05/03/2026
Applying image processing to ARPES measurements By applying image segmentation to ARPES data, researchers reconcile Fermi surface measurements with magnetic quantum oscillations and precisely determine the size of tiny electron pockets in rare-earth tritellurides. Rare-earth tritellurides […]
- EPJ Plus Focus Point: Nuclear microprobe technology and applicationsby sabine.lehr@springer.com (EPJ) on 05/03/2026
Guest Editors: Noelia Maldonado, María Dolores Ynsa, Belén Cortés, José Olivares Villegas, Teresa Pinheiro, Esther Enríquez, M. Carmen Jiménez-Ramos, Gastón García This Focus Point issue includes 19 papers showcasing the diversity and innovation within the nuclear microprobe community, […]
- EPJ Plus Focus Point: CBRNE events: prevention, mitigation, consequences and recoveryby sabine.lehr@springer.com (EPJ) on 04/03/2026
Guest Editors: Andrea Malizia, Marco D’Arienzo, Gian Marco Contessa, Francesco d’Errico, Susana de Souza Lalic, Frank Duschek, Vasilis Vasiliou, Antony M. Hooker, Pasquale Gaudio CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive) events remain among the most complex and […]
- EPJ Plus Highlight - GEMINI: Suppressing seismic noise for future gravitational-wave detectorsby sabine.lehr@springer.com (EPJ) on 04/03/2026
Sensor for isolating seismic noise By refining seismic isolation and control strategies deep underground, GEMINI aims to unlock the low-frequency frontier of gravitational-wave astronomy Since the first observation of gravitational waves in 2015, detectors including LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA have […]
- Igor Jex joins the EPJ Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC)by sandrine.karpe@edpsciences.org (Sandrine Karpe) on 03/03/2026
The Steering Committee of EPJ is delighted to welcome Professor Igor Jex, as the new representative of the Czech Physical Society. Igor Jex is Professor at the Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, fellow member of Institute of Physics […]
- EPJ Web of Conferences Highlight - RFPPC2025 – 25th Topical Conference on Radio-Frequency Power in Plasmasby elodie.guillaud@edpsciences.org (Elodie Guillaud) on 03/03/2026
25th edition of the Topical Conference on Radio-Frequency Power in Plasmas in Hohenkammer, Germany. The 25th Topical Conference on Radio-Frequency Power in Plasmas brought together 126 experts from around the world to Schloss Hohenkammer, Germany, from May 19 to 22, to discuss advances in the […]
- EPJ C: Julia Vogel new Editor-in-Chief for Experimental Physics II: Astroparticle Physicsby sabine.lehr@springer.com (EPJ) on 12/12/2025
Julia K. Vogel (Credit © Mattie Trigo) The publishers of The European Physical Journal C – Particles and Fields are pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Julia K. Vogel as new section Editor-in-Chief for Experimental Physics II: Astroparticle Physics, succeeding in this role to […]
- EPJ C: Markus Elsing new Editor-in-Chief for Computing, Software and Data Scienceby sabine.lehr@springer.com (EPJ) on 28/01/2025
Markus Elsing The publishers of The European Physical Journal C – Particles and Fields are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Markus Elsing as Editor-in-Chief for the newly created section on Computing, Software and Data Science as of January 2025. Markus Elsing is a senior […]
- EPJ C: Susha Parameswaran appointed Guest Editor for String Phenomenologyby sabine.lehr@springer.com (EPJ) on 18/10/2024
Susha Parameswaran EPJ C is pleased to announce the appointment of Susha Parameswaran as the journal’s Guest Editor for String Phenomenology. Susha Parameswaran is a theoretical physicist based in the UK at the University of Liverpool. Her research interests are in string theory and its […]
- EPJ C Highlight - The ALICE experiment – A journey through QCDby sabine.lehr@springer.com (EPJ) on 04/09/2024
ALICE Collaboration The comprehensive review article “The ALICE experiment – A journey through QCD” has been recently published in the European Physical Journal C (EPJ C). As of today, QCD is a gauge theory describing the interactions of quarks and gluons, the carriers of the strong […]
- EPJ C: Francesco Forti new Editor-in-Chief for Experimental Physics I: Accelerator Based High-Energy Physicsby sabine.lehr@springer.com (EPJ) on 15/12/2023
Extracted from Photograph: Ordan, Julien © 2019-2023 CERN The publishers of The European Physical Journal C – Particles and Fields are pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Francesco Forti as new Editor-in-Chief for Experimental Physics I: Accelerator Based High-Energy Physics, […]
- EPJ C Highlight - Celebrating 50 years of QCD with a comprehensive reviewby sabine.lehr@springer.com (EPJ) on 13/12/2023
Figure with permission by A Deur (JLAB) and E Klempt (University of Bonn) (click on the figure for full size) A series of key experiments performed about 50 years ago revealed the eminent role of gauge theories. Two theories were formulated: the electroweak theory and the strong interaction […]
- EPJ C: Emilian Dudas new Editor-in-Chief for Theoretical Physics III: Quantum Field Theory and Gravity - Fundamental and Formal Aspectsby sabine.lehr@springer.com (EPJ) on 31/10/2023
The publishers of The European Physical Journal C – Particles and Fields are pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Emilian Dudas as new Editor-in-Chief for Theoretical Physics III: Quantum Field Theory and Gravity - Fundamental and Formal Aspects, replacing Professor Kostas Skenderis […]
- EPJ C Highlight: Exploring the duality of gravity and gauge theoryby sabine.lehr@springer.com (EPJ) on 03/11/2022
Gauge/gravity duality aims to unify leading physical theories. https://commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/File:Calabi_yau.jpg This EPJ C Topical Collection presents a series of reviews showcasing the latest developments and applications of gauge/gravity duality, and aims at dissemination to a wider […]
- EPJ C Topical Issue on New frontiers in holographic duality: From quantum complexity and black holes to hydrodynamics and neutron starsby sabine.lehr@springer.com (EPJ) on 20/10/2022
Guest Editor: Ayan Mukhopadhyay Over the last 25 years, holographic duality has revolutionised our understanding of gauge theories, quantum many-body systems and also quantum black holes. This topical issue is a collection of review articles on recent advances in fundamentals of holographic […]
- EPJ C: Giulia Zanderighi new Editor-in-Chief for Theoretical Physics I: Phenomenology of the Standard Model and Beyondby sabine.lehr@springer.com (EPJ) on 02/05/2022
The publishers of The European Physical Journal C – Particles and Fields are pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Giulia Zanderighi as new Editor-in-Chief for Theoretical Physics I: Phenomenology of the Standard Model and Beyond, replacing Professor Dieter Zeppenfeld as of 1 May […]






























