News about Physics

Clever algorithm results in a new method to mitigate noise in quantum devices

Quantum researchers have deployed a new algorithm to manage noise in qubits in real time. The method can be applied to a wide range of different qubits, even in large numbers.

Photonics Characterization

In the photonics characterization team, we characterize the optical properties of integrated photonic circuits and components relevant for quantum technologies.

Electronic Characterization

In the electronic characterization team, we characterize the electronic properties of materials and sub-components for qubits.

Qubit Characterization

In the qubit characterization team, we focus on developing protocols and methods for characterization of superconducting and spin qubit components and processors. Our Maybell dilution refrigerator is equipped with a…

Structural and Materials Characterization

The Structural and Material Characterization team is dedicated to comprehensive analysis of structural features and material properties.

Denmark can now contribute to producing world-class chips

For the first time, Denmark is establishing production of microchip wafers at the leading standard. This makes Denmark a global player in chip production. The new “wafer factory,” which will be part of the University of…

Denmark can now contribute to producing world-class chips

For the first time, Denmark is establishing production of microchip wafers at the leading standard. This makes Denmark a global player in chip production. The new “wafer factory,” which will be part of the University of…

Denmark can now contribute to producing world-class chips

For the first time, Denmark is establishing production of microchip wafers at the leading standard. This makes Denmark a global player in chip production. The new “wafer factory,” which will be part of the University of…

Tycho supercomputer gets new green superpowers

With a new expansion of the Tycho supercomputer, the University of Copenhagen will get its first water-cooled and green supercomputer, that will be a virtual laboratory that supports research of the University.

A quantum leap in sensing the quietest signals in nature

By combining two strange quantum effects – light that is entangled and atoms that act as if they have negative mass – scientists have built a new kind of sensor that cancels out quantum noise, even at room temperature.

Intergalactic experiment: Researchers hunt for mysterious dark matter particle with clever trick

Physicists use magnetic fields of galaxy clusters to observe black holes in their search for a particle that has stumped scientists for decades.

Intergalactic experiment: Researchers hunt for mysterious dark matter particle with clever trick

Physicists use magnetic fields of galaxy clusters to observe black holes in their search for a particle that has stumped scientists for decades.

Jose M. Ezquiaga Receives General Relativity and Gravitation Early Career Prize

Associate Professor Jose Maria Ezquiaga at the Niels Bohr Institute was awarded the 2025 IUPAP General Relativity and Gravitation Early Career Prize.

Vitor Cardoso Elected President of ISGRG

The International Society on General Relativity and Gravitational (ISGRG) has elected Professor Vítor Cardoso for President during the 2028-2031 triennium.

NBIA signs Memorandum of Understanding with ICISE in Vietnam

International Center for Interdisciplinary Science and Education (ICISE) in Quy Nhon, Vietnam, serves as a unique science and education, welcoming national and international conferences, specialized professional…

NQCP establishes a new collaboration on digital twins for quantum device development with Prineha Narang

As quantum devices grow ever more complex, modeling and predicting their behavior becomes both more challenging and more essential. To address this, NQCP is partnering with a new research group at the Niels Bohr…

Hoffmann & Husmans Foundation supports Visiting Scientist Program at NBIA

5-year program for Hoffmann & Husmans Foundation Visiting Scientists

Vitor Cardoso receives Simons Foundation grant for strong gravity research

Vitor Cardoso is one of 12 PIs at different institutions, who will receive the support from the Simons Foundation for a collective project on gravity and black hole research.

Quantum leap in precision sensing across technologies

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have developed a tunable system that paves the way for more accurate sensing in a variety of technologies, including biomedical diagnostics.

Sound Signals in Computer Chips – Almost Without Signal Loss

Assistant Professor Xiang Xi and Professor Albert Schliesser at the Niels Bohr Institute have managed to get vibrations to travel around a membrane with almost no loss. In fact, so little loss that it is far better than…

Our 2025 Summer Party

Great weather, good food, and even better company.

Zvi Bern receives the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour, 2024

Zvi Bern is awarded the Niels Bohr Institute of Honour for his remarkable list of scientific achievements in theoretical physics. His association with the Niels Bohr Institute goes back more than 40 years.

A 1960s idea inspires NBI researchers to study hitherto inaccessible quantum states

Scientists have created a new way to study the highly volatile quantum states in superconducting vortices, whose existence has been known since the 1960s, but it has been very difficult to verify them directly, until…

Look up in June

Read here (in Danish) about the star trinity in the bright June night sky.