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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 - Research News
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 - Research News
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 - Research News
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
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Chung Yun Chang (1929 - 2025) Professor Emeritus Chung Yun Chang died on October 29, 2025, in San Diego, California. He was 95. Prof. Chang was a native of rural Hunan, China. He received a bachelor’s degree at National Taiwan University and a Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1965. Prof. Chang… Read More -
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
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