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Anything-goes “anyons” may be at the root of surprising quantum experiments

MIT physicists say these quasiparticles may explain how superconductivity and magnetism can coexist in certain materials.

December 22, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Theory, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory

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Anything-goes “anyons” may be at the root of surprising quantum experiments

December 21, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Theory, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
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Nuno Loureiro, professor and director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, dies at 47

December 15, 2025
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty/Emeritus, Plasma Physics, Astrophysics Theory
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Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits

December 9, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
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Quantum experiment settles a century-old row between Einstein and Bohr

December 4, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Atomic Physics

MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Inventors for 2025

December 14, 2025
Categories: Profile
Ai-powered Discovery Reveals Electronic Quasicrystals and Crystalline Phases in Semiconductor Quantum Wells

Ai-powered Discovery Reveals Electronic Quasicrystals and Crystalline Phases in Semiconductor Quantum Wells

December 12, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Theory

School of Science welcomed new faculty in 2024

December 10, 2025
Categories: In The News, Education, Faculty/Emeritus

Quantum computing reality check: What business needs to know now

December 8, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Information Science
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MIT affiliates named 2025 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows

December 7, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Undergraduates, Alumni
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Physics PhD candidate Jessica Fry named to Forbes 30 Under 30 for 2026

November 30, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Graduate Students, WiSTEM, Particle Physics Experiment
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Turning to the text box: How LLMs are used by first-years taking 8.01

November 24, 2025
Categories: Education, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni
Bose-Einstein condensation in rubidium

Thirty years of Bose–Einstein condensation

November 24, 2025
Categories: Research, In The News, Atomic Physics
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