News about Physics

Understanding galaxy evolution

Studying how galaxies evolve takes more than just observing them and noting their properties. A notable part of an astronomer's job is about constructing physical models that explain the observed behavior. Read here how…

Jacob Svensmark

On the nature of dark matter structures and the growth of charged atmospheric aerosols Supervisor: Steen H. Hansen

The Niels Bohr Institute develops calibration target, now on its way to Mars

The calibration target has been developed and manufactured in a collaboration between the researchers, the workshop at the Niels Bohr Institute and local businesses, and supported by the Carlsberg Foundation.

Ann-Sofie Priergaard Zinck

Surface velocity and ice thickness of the Müller ice cap, Axel Heiberg Island Supervisor: Aslak Grinsted

Major breakthrough: Copenhagen researchers can now achieve 'quantum advantage'

University of Copenhagen researchers have developed a chip that, with financial backing, could be scaled up and used to build the quantum simulator of the future. Their results are now published in Science Advances.

Lasse Stampe Frølich

Title: Controlling Single-Photon Generation With Nano-Mechanical Devices Supervisor: Leonardo Midolo

The climate changed rapidly alongside sea ice decline in the north

This scientific breakthrough concludes a long-lasting debate on the mechanisms causing abrupt climate change during the glacial period. It also documents that the cause of the swiftness and extent of sudden climate…

Caroline Munck Nielsen

Title: Dispersion Measurements and Frequency Comb Generation in A Si3N4 Microring Resonator Supervisors: Jorg Helge Muller, Asbjørn Arvad Jørgensen, Martin Romme Henriksen, Jan Westenkær Thomsen

Emmanouil Terzidis

Title: Individual anisotropic planning target volumes (PTV) for lung cancer radiotherapy in deep-inspiration breath hold Supervisors: Jens J. Gaardhøje, Katrin E. Hakansson, Ivan R. Vogelius

The Solar System follows the Galactic standard – but it is a Rare Breed

It turns out that our own solar system in some ways is very rare, and in others very ordinary. It is rare to have 8 planets, but the study shows that the Solar system follows exactly the same, very basic rules for the…

Maria Skak Vestergaard Larsen

Title: Cold Strontium Atoms Coupled to an Optical Cavity Supervisors: Stefan A. Schaffer, Sofus L. Kristensen, Mikkel Tang, Jörg H. Müller, and Jan W. Thomsen

Freja Thilde Pedersen

Deterministic Single and Multi-Photon Sources with antum dots in Planar Nanostructures Supervisor: Peter Lodahl

Researchers put human mobility into new formula

Researchers at DTU and the University of Copenhagen have developed a model that provides new knowledge about how we move around in our everyday life and bridges a gap in the scientific understanding of mobility.

Bastian Bakkensen

Title: Photon-Photon Interactions in Waveguides Supervisor: Anders Søndberg Sørensen

Rohan Kumar

Numerical Simulation of 2 Active and 1 Sterile Flavour Neutrino model in the Early Universe Supervisor: Irene Tamborra

Physicists and chemists join forces to develop quantum simulators of the future

Two Centers of Excellence, the Center for Hybrid Quantum Networks and the Center for Quantum Devices at the Niels Bohr Institute recently received a large grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s Challenge Program to…

Grant for developing long term weather predictions in Denmark

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), received a grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark to provide us with a much longer perspective on the general weather situation in Denmark.

Lilja Dahl

Source-Apportionment of Non-Methane Volatile Organic Compounds, Halogenated Species and Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases at Mt. Cimone (Italy) by applying Positive Matrix Factorization with a Lifetime Correction Method…

Sofie Helene Bruun

Title: Variability classification of PTF lightcurves Supervisors: Jens Hjorth, Adriano Agnello

Daniel S. Nielsen

In search of new Higgs bosons Supervisor: Troels C. Petersen

Kassiani Tsemperlidi

Title: Image Guided & Adaptive Radiotherapy in Esophageal Cancer Supervisors: Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje, Mirjana Josipovic

Galaxies in the Very Early Universe were Surprisingly Mature

Massive galaxies were already much more mature in the early universe than previously expected. This is the conclusion of an international team of astronomers who studied distant galaxies with the Atacama Large…

Measuring the expansion of the Universe: Researchers focus on the importance of measuring velocity

Ever since the astronomer Edwin Hubble demonstrated that the further apart two galaxies are, the faster they move away from each other, researchers have measured the expansion rate of the Universe (the Hubble constant).

Nanna Bach-Møller

Title: Atmospheric Disequilibrium Model - Model Development for Exoplanet Atmosphere Simulations Supervisor: Uffe Gråe Jørgensen