News about Physics

Albert Schliesser awarded fellowship at the Optical Society of America

Optical Society of America awards a number of scientists the honor of a fellowship. The award honors the individual new fellow and the contribution he/she has made to the field of optics and photonics or achievements…

Irene Tamborra receives KIF Prize 2020

The Danish Network for Women in Physics (KIF) has awarded the 2020 honorary prize to Associate Professor Irene Tamborra, leader of the AstroNu group at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

Photon turnstile brings order to light

With the creation of a turnstile for light in glass fibers, quantum optics researchers from Germany, Denmark and Austria have succeeded in directly converting laser light in optical fibers into a single file of isolated…

Rodrigo A. Thomas

Optical spin-mechanics quantum interface: entanglement and back-action evasion Supervisor: Prof. Eugene S. Polzik

Anton Lauenborg Andersen

Quantum Key Distribution and Entanglement Distribution with Satellite Links Supervisor: Anders Søndberg Sørensen

Bjørn Hübschmann Mølvig

Low-Energy Neutrino Reconstructions using Recurrent Neural Networks Supervisor: Troels Christian Petersen

Cecilie Toftdahl Olesen

Efficient Generation of Pure and Indistinguishable Single Photons Supervisors: Peter Lodahl and Ravitej Uppu

Emil Gorm Nielsen

Evidence of transverse momentum dependent flow angle and magnitude fluctuations at the LHC with ALICE Supervisor: You Zhou

Massimiliano Rossi

QUANTUM MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL OF A MECHANICAL RE SONATOR Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Albert Schliesser

Simon Pochinda

A panchromatic and structural study of high redshift star forming galaxies Supervisors: Georgios MAGDIS and Gabriel BRAMMER

Charles Marcus honoured with the H.C. Ørsted Gold Medal

The Society for the Dissemination of Natural Science is awarding an H.C. Ørsted Gold Medal in physics to Professor Charles Marcus.

Quantum entanglement realized between distant large objects

A team of researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have succeeded in entangling two very different quantum objects. The result has several potential applications in ultra-precise sensing and quantum communication and is…

Study delivers new knowledge about what causes thunderstorms and cloud bursts

Thunderstorms often provoke violent cloud bursts that can result in devastating flooding. But what actually spawns thunderstorms and cloud bursts? This question has spurred a new study by researchers at the University o…

Tomorrow’s pharmaceuticals could be discovered by quantum simulators

Trial and error define today’s approach to developing new pharmaceutical drugs.

Villum Experiment grants for two young researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute

Two young researchers at the Niels Bohr Insitute are among the beneficiaries for the Villum Experiment grants 2020.

Microsoft and University of Copenhagen collaboration yields promising material for quantum computing

Researchers at the Microsoft Quantum Materials Lab and the University of Copenhagen, working closely together, have succeeded in realizing an important and promising material for use in a future quantum computer.

Extracting order from a quantum measurement finally shown experimentally

For more than a century, physicists have been aware of the link between the disorder in a system, and information obtained by measurement. Now, it has been demonstrated experimentally for the first time.

Young researcher talents get prestigeous career push

The ERC starting grant means a lot to me, as it provides an important step forward in my academic career, says Leonardo Midolo, Niels Bohr Institute.

Falk Oraschewski

Modelling of firn densification in the presence of horizontal strain rates Supervisor: Aslak Grinsted

Knowledge about the past can preserve the biodiversity of tomorrow

Climate change threatens plants and animals across the planet. Interdisciplinary research by, among others, climate and biodiversity researchers at the University of Copenhagen, has mapped responds of biodiversity cause…

Sissel Bay Nielsen

Title: Flavour Identification Techniques Supervisor: Mogens Dam

Proven: Historical climate changes occurred simultaneously in several parts of the world

A new study published by researchers from the University of Copenhagen and partner institutions has proven that repeated and abrupt climate changes during the last ice age occurred simultaneously in South America,…

Karoline Løve & Kristine Simone Nielsen

Expanding the Physics of Dark Matter Supervisor: Steen H. Hansen

Ryan Yde

Room temperature spin ensembles for precision measurements Supervisor: Prof. Eugene Polzik