• Research News

    Researchers Identify Groovy Way to Beat Diffraction Limit

    Physics is full of pesky limits. There are speed limits, like the speed of light. There are limits on how much matter and energy can be crammed into a region of space before it collapses into a black hole. There are even limits on Read More
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    Researchers Imagine Novel Quantum Foundations for Gravity

    Questioning assumptions and imagining new explanations for familiar phenomena are often necessary steps on the way to scientific progress. For example, humanity’s understanding of gravity has been overturned multiple times. For ages, people assumed heavier objects always fall quicker than lighter objects. Eventually, Galileo Read More
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    Researchers Spy Finish Line in Race for Majorana Qubits

    Our computer age is built on a foundation of semiconductors. As researchers and engineers look toward a new generation of computers that harness quantum physics, they are exploring various foundations for the burgeoning technology. Almost every computer on earth, from a pocket calculator to Read More
  • Research News

    Superconductivity’s Halo: Physicists Map Rare High-field Phase

     A puzzling form of superconductivity that arises only under strong magnetic fields has been mapped and explained by a research team of UMD, NIST and Rice University including  professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University. Their findings,  published in Science July 31, detail how uranium Read More
  • Research News

    A Cosmic Photographer: Decades of Work to Get the Perfect Shot

    John Mather, a College Park Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland and a senior astrophysicist at NASA, has made a career of looking to the heavens. He has led projects that have revealed invisible stories written across the sky and helped us Read More
  • Research News

    New Protocol Demonstrates and Verifies Quantum Speedups in a Jiffy

    While breakthrough results over the past few years have garnered headlines proclaiming the dawn of quantum supremacy, they have also masked a nagging problem that researchers have been staring at for decades: Demonstrating the advantages of a quantum computer is only half the battle; Read More
  • Research News

    Work on 2D Magnets Featured in Nature Physics Journal

    University of Maryland Professor Cheng Gong (ECE), along with his postdocs Dr. Ti Xie, Dr. Jierui Liang and collaborators in Georgetown University (Professor Kai Liu group), UC Berkeley (Professor Ziqiang Qiu), University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Professor David Mandrus group) and UMD Physics (Professor Victor M. Yakovenko), have made Read More
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    NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Reveals a Key Particle Accelerator Near the Sun

    Flying closer to the sun than any spacecraft before it, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe uncovered a new source of energetic particles near Earth’s star, according to a new study co-authored by University of Maryland researchers.  Published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on May 29, 2025, Read More
  • Research News

    Time Crystal Research Enters a New Phase

    Our world only exists thanks to the diverse properties of the many materials that make it up. The differences between all those materials result from more than just which atoms and molecules form them. A material’s properties also depend on how those basic building Read More
  • 1 Researchers Identify Groovy Way to Beat Diffraction Limit
  • 2 Researchers Imagine Novel Quantum Foundations for Gravity
  • 3 Researchers Spy Finish Line in Race for Majorana Qubits
  • 4 Superconductivity’s Halo: Physicists Map Rare High-field Phase
  • 5 A Cosmic Photographer: Decades of Work to Get the Perfect Shot
  • 6 New Protocol Demonstrates and Verifies Quantum Speedups in a Jiffy
  • 7 Work on 2D Magnets Featured in Nature Physics Journal
  • 8 NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Reveals a Key Particle Accelerator Near the Sun
  • 9 Time Crystal Research Enters a New Phase

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Department News

  • Jaron E. Shrock Cited for Outstanding Thesis Jaron E. Shrock has been named the 2025 recipient of the American Physical Society’s Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award. Shrock was cited for the first demonstration of multi-GeV laser wakefield acceleration using a plasma waveguide in an all-optical scheme. After graduating from Swarthmore Read More
  • When Physics and Math Go Viral With more viruses on Earth than stars in the observable universe, researchers like Raunak Dey may never run out of work. As a physics Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, Dey designs theoretical and mathematical models to understand how viruses interact in vast microbial communities. Read More
  • UMD-Led Team Wins Major NSF Grant to Pioneer “High-Entropy” Quantum Materials A University of Maryland–led research team has been awarded a highly competitive grant from the National Science Foundation’s Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) program to launch a bold new frontier in quantum materials science: High-Entropy Quantum Materials. The $2 million, four-year Read More
  • Srinivasan Named NIST Co-Director of JQI Adjunct Professor Kartik Srinivasan has been appointed the newest National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Co-Director of JQI. He assumed the role on Sept. 8, 2025 and will be working with Jay Sau who has been the University of Maryland (UMD) Co-Director of JQI since 2022. Read More
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Directions

PSCThe John S. Toll Physics Building and the Physical Sciences Complex (PSC) are both in the northeast quadrant of the University of Maryland campus. Parking is available in the Regents Drive Garage; choose the parking spots designated for visitors. Digital Pay Stations accept cash and credit cards. Further details about getting to and around the University of Maryland are provided by the UMD Visitor Center.

 

Rideshare 

PSC: 4296 Stadium Drive, College Park MD 20742
Toll: 4150 Campus Dr, College Park, MD 20742

Driving 

From Baltimore:

  • Take I-95 South to Washington, D.C.'s Capital Beltway (I-495).
  • Take Exit 27 and then follow signs to Exit 25 (U.S. 1 South toward College Park). Proceed approximately two miles south on U.S. Route 1.
  • Turn right at the main gate and proceed .25 mile. The John S. Toll Physics Building will be on your right. Veer right at the “M” traffic circle onto Regents Drive. The parking garage will be ahead on your left. The PSC will be just beyond the garage, also on the left.

From Virginia:

  • Take I-95 North to Washington, D.C.'s Capital Beltway (I-495). Continue North on I-95/I-495 toward Baltimore.
  • Take Exit 25 (U.S. 1 South toward College Park). Proceed approximately two miles south on U.S. Route 1.
  • Turn right at the main gate and proceed .25 mile. The John S. Toll Physics Building will be on your right. Veer right at the “M” traffic circle onto Regents Drive. The parking garage will be ahead on your left. The PSC will be just beyond the garage, also on the left.

Metro 

  • Take the Green Line train (towards Greenbelt); get off at the College Park/U of MD station.
  • The University's free Shuttle-UM buses pick up university-bound passengers on the EAST side of the station, so proceed up the escalator or stairs to bus bay E.
  • Get off the Shuttle-UM at the Regents Drive garage. The Toll Building will be on the opposite side of Regents Drive, to the southeast of the bus stop. The PSC will be to the northwest of the bus stop, across Stadium Drive. 
  • Metrobus P31 stops at both the Toll Building and the PSC, as does The Bus route P37.

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