News about Physics

Star with different internal driving force than the Sun

Astrophysicists from the Niels Bohr Institute have observed a distant star in the constellation Andromeda with a different positioning of sunspots and this indicates a magnetic field that is driven by completely…

Jan Thomsen in a new EU project on ultra-precise atomic clocks

Jan Thomsen, Associate Professor and head of the Ultracold Atoms research group at the Niels Bohr Institute is part of a grant of 14 million kroner to participate in an EU project to develop ultra-precise atomic clocks…

John E. Niclasen

World and Science Supervisor:

Bjarke Takashi Røjle Christensen

Laser Stabilization With Laser Cooled Strontium Academic advisor: Jan W. Thomsen

Insulating layer of air above the Greenland ice sheet reduces precipitation

The Earth’s climate has been warming, but even though the Greenland ice sheet is melting rapidly in the coastal regions, there are large parts of the ice sheet where there has hardly been any melting on the surface.

Superfast light source made from artificial atom

New research results from the Niels Bohr Institute show that light sources can be made much faster by using a principle that was predicted theoretically in 1954. Superfast light sources can be used, for example, in lase…

Massive investment: From theoretical quantum physics to usable quantum technology

In a major new effort to translate quantum physics into practical quantum technology, the Innovation Fund Denmark has therefore invested 80 million kroner in a nationwide project involving three universities.

Danish professor new vice-president of the CERN Council

Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje, a professor of particle physics and head of the Subatomic research group at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, has been elected as vice president of the CERN Council.

Søren Frimann

Evolution of Deeply Embedded Protostars Simulations meet Observations Academic Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Jes Kristian Jørgensen

Climate variations analysed 5 million years back in time

When we talk about climate change today, we have to recognise the natural variations to be able to distinguish them from the human-induced changes. Researchers from the NBI have analysed the natural climate variations…

Protected Majorana states for quantum information

Quantum technology has the potential to revolutionize computation, cryptography, and simulation of quantum systems. However: quantum states are fragile, and so must be controlled without being measured.

Anders Paaske Drachmann

DUST PRODUCTION IN LATE-TYPE HIGH-MASS STARS THE SIGNIFICANCE AND CONTRIBUTION TO THE ISM Supervisor: ANJA C. ANDERSEN

MIKKEL JUHL HOBERT

THE ROLE OF CORE COLLAPSE SUPERNOVAE IN THE CONTEXT OF DUST PRODUCTION IN THE EARLY UNIVERSE Supervisor: DARACH WATSON

Physicist Peter Lodahl receives prestigious EliteForsk Award

Peter Lodahl, professor of quantum physics at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen has received the prestigious Danish elite researcher award, the EliteForsk Award 2016. Peter Lodahl works with…

Dark Cosmology Centre in hunt for gravitational wave sources

Today it was announced that gravitational waves, a key prediction of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, have been directly detected for the first time and astrophysicists from the Niels Bohr Institute’s Dark…

The universe’s primordial soup flowing at CERN

Researchers have recreated the universe’s primordial soup in miniature format by colliding lead atoms with extremely high energy in the 27 km long particle accelerator, the LHC at CERN.

Hannah Kleppin

Unforced climate transitions as a scenario for Dansgaard-Oeschger events Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Markus Jochum

Gabija Kiršanske

Electrical control of excitons in semiconductor nanostructures: from quantum dots in photonic-crystal devices to the exciton Mott transition in coupled quantum wells Supervisor: Prof. Peter Lodahl and Assoc. Prof. Søren…

The solar system’s ninth planet in sight

Two American researchers believe that they have found evidence that there is still a giant planet in our own solar system that we have never seen. It has long been known that the small dwarf planet Sedna moved in a…

Heidi Lundgaard Sørensen

A WAVEGUIDE PLATFORM FOR COLLECTIVE LIGHT-ATOM INTERACTION Principal supervisor: Prof. Eugene S. Polzik

Georgios Magdis receives grant from Villum Foundation

Georgios Magdis, an assistant professor at the Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, has received a grant of five million kroner from the Villum Foundation’s Young Investigator Programme.

Sofus L. Kristensen

Doppler-Free Cavity Enhanced Spectroscopy of Molecular Iodine Supervisors: Sigrid Skovbo Adsersen and Jan Westenkær Thomsen

Diana Juncher

Modeling the Cloudy Atmospheres of Cool Stars, Brown Dwarfs and Hot Exoplanets Supervisor: Uffe Gråe Jørgensen

Jean-Baptiste Sylvain Béguin

A one-dimensional quantum interface between a few atoms and weak light Principal supervisor: Prof. Eugene S. Polzik