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Three small purple spheres are on left, and one large purple sphere is on right. A bending stream of energy is between them. Graphene layers are in the background.

Electrons become fractions of themselves in graphene, study finds

February 21, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Students & Alumni, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Experiment
Complex 3d illustration of a clear cube denoting the outline of a molecule with reddish spheres as its atoms. Two pairs of screw-like objects appear connected by electricity amid various blue spheres and arrows. Waves of electromagnetic radiation appear to hit and bounce off the top of the cube.

Making more magnetism possible with topology

October 10, 2023
Categories: Research, Undergraduates, Students & Alumni, Graduate Students, Alumni, Condensed Matter Theory

A More Efficient Superconducting Diode

July 13, 2023
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Academic Staff, Condensed Matter Theory
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Expelled from the mountain top?

June 8, 2023
Categories: Op-Ed, Students & Alumni, Alumni
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Sophomore physics major April Cheng named a 2023 Astronaut Scholar from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation

May 22, 2023
Categories: Awards/Honors, Undergraduates, Students & Alumni
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Senior Pam Stark named 2023 Knight-Hennessy Scholar

May 9, 2023
Categories: Awards/Honors, Undergraduates, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM

Exploring new sides of climate and sustainability research

April 21, 2023
Categories: In The News, Undergraduates, Students & Alumni

QuARC 2023 explores the leading edge in quantum information and science

March 3, 2023
Categories: Events, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Experiment, Quantum Information Science, Atomic Physics
Artist’s rendition of skyrmions, exotic particles represented by the whirls of red, yellow, and white arrows.

MIT physicists predict exotic new phenomena and give “recipe” for realizing them

February 27, 2023
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Theory
A unique device is made of sandwiched layers, with yellow and purple on top and blue on bottom. The middle layer is dark grey representing 2 layers of graphene, and the inset shows the graphene layers creating a moiré pattern. The device has a central rectangular shape with 7 more rectangular shapes emanating from it.

Study: Superconductivity switches on and off in “magic-angle” graphene

January 30, 2023
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Experiment
Catherine Ji, in the lab with purple gloves and surrounded by microscopes and lab equipment, labels a glass bottle.

“This is the type of life that I want”

January 26, 2023
Categories: Profile, Undergraduates, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM, Biophysics
computer simulation of supermassive black holes only 40 orbits from merging

What Does it Take to Make Black Holes Collide?

January 5, 2023
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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