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Decay used to construct quantum information

Usually, when researchers work with quantum information, they do everything they can to prevent the information from decaying. Now researchers at NBI have flipped things around and are exploiting the decay to create…

Congratulations to Myriam Guillevic

Congratulations to Myriam Guillevic from Centre for Ice and Climate who succesfully defended his PhD thesis on Wednesday, November 20, 2013.

Monster gamma-ray burst in our cosmic neighbourhood

Gamma-ray bursts are violent bursts of gamma radiation associated with exploding massive stars. For the first time ever, researchers from DARK, among others, have observed an unusually powerful gamma-ray

Plant scientists win Innovation Award

The University of Copenhagen Innovation Award 2013 goes to Professor Barbara Ann Halkier for groundbreaking research in plant biotechnology with high potential for environment and society.

Fabiola Gianotti awarded the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour

The LHC accelerator is running on ‘woman power’, such is a saying CERN. One of the great top female researchers is the particle physicist Fabiola Gianotti, who for four years has been the head of......

Daves Tomasz Benedykt Hoszowski

Inflated Exoplanets Supervisor: Anja C. Andersen

Arctic exhibition at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Snow and ice, darkness and northern lights, beauty, silence, strife and storm. Louisiana heads straight north to a region of magnetic lure. In themes ranging from the sublime to conquest and myth, this spectacular Arcti…

Niels Bohr Institute part of the research project IceCube at the South Pole

The Niels Bohr Institute is now officially admitted as a full member of the IceCube collaboration. IceCube is an enormous particle detector built into a cubic kilometer of ice at the South Pole.

Malte Nordmann Winther

Continous measurements of Nitrous Oxide isotopomers produced by nitrifying and denitrifying bacteria Supervisor: Prof. Thomas Blunier

Mikkel Skaarup

Study of diffractive pp interactions at the LHC using a tagged proton Supervisor: Peter Henrik Hansen

Maria Hoffmann

Micromegas detectors for the upgrade of the ATLAS muon spectrometer Supervisors: Joerg Wotschack (CERN), Peter Hansen (NBI)

Nobel Prize for the Higgs mechanism

François Englert and Peter W. Higgs have been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass

Discovery Center receives 40 million kroner

The Discovery Center for Particle Physics at NBI has received a grant of 40 million kroner from the Danish National Research Foundation. This grant means that the Discovery Center, which was established in January 2010

Magnus Elleskov Kristensen

NEGIS Phosphate and pH Measurements First continuous Phosphate and pH record from a Greenland shallow ice core Supervisors: Anders Svensson, Paul T. Vallelonga and Helle A. Kjær

Troels Paarup

Quasar K-correction in the UV-optical spectral region and broad emission line shape parameter dependence on Eddington ratio

Simon Stark Mortensen

Kinematic reconstruction of diffractive processes with tagged protons in the ALFA detector at √S=8TeV Supervisor: Peter Henrik Hansen

In memory of Henrik B. Clausen

Asoc. prof., Henrik Brink Clausen died 23rd August 2013 at the age of 76 years. He participated in a great number of expeditions among others to Greenland and Antarctica. In recognition of his contribution to research h…

Bastian Poulsen

CMB methods applied to flow data from ALICE Supervisor: Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje

Heidi Lundgaard Sørensen

Controlling the shape of subwavelength-diameter tapered optical fibers

Ivan Iakoupov

Photon gates in atomic ensembles

Christine O. Rasmussen

Next-to-leading order matrix element reweighting – a study on qq→zz→e+e-µ+µ- Supervisor: Jørgen Beck Hansen

Quasar observed in 6 separate light reflections

Using a special method where you observe light that has been bent by gravity on its way through the universe, a group of physics students from NBI have observed a quasar whose light has been deflected and reflected in

Quantum communication controlled by resonance in ‘artificial atoms’

Researchers at NBI among others have developed a method to control a quantum bit for electronic quantum communication in a series of quantum dots, which behave like artificial atoms in the solid state

Peter Krogstrup appointed assistant professor at QDev on nanowire growth

As of May 2013, Peter Krogstrup has been appointed assistant professor at the Center for Quantum Devices. He will be working on MBE growth of nanowires.