News about Physics

Jan W. Thomsen receives annual teaching award at NBI

“For more than five years, Jan Thomsen has captivated class after class as he takes students on a journey into the world of optics,” reads the justification from the students for recommending Jan Thomsen for the Niels…

Snapshot of cosmic burst of radio waves

A strange phenomenon has been observed by astronomers right as it was happening – a ‘fast radio burst’. The eruption is described as an extremely short, sharp flash of radio waves from an unknown source in the universe.

Snapshot of cosmic burst of radio waves

A strange phenomenon has been observed by astronomers right as it was happening – a ‘fast radio burst’. The eruption is described as an extremely short, sharp flash of radio waves from an unknown source in the universe.

New superconducting hybrid crystals developed at the University of Copenhagen

A new type of ‘nanowire’ crystals that fuses semiconducting and metallic materials on the atomic scale could lay the foundation for future semiconducting electronics. Researchers at the University of Copenhagen are…

Atoms queue up for quantum computer networks

In order to develop future quantum computer networks, it is necessary to hold a known number of atoms. To do this, researchers from NBI have developed a method with a trap that captures the atoms along an ultra thin…

Maria Cavallius

Dark energy parametrization driven bias in cosmological parameter estimation Academic Supervisors: Steen H. Hansen and Stefania Pandolf

Florentin Reiter

Dissipative preparation of entanglement in quantum optical and solid state systems Academic advisor: Anders S. Sørensen

ERC grants for two researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute

Two researchers from NBI, Albert Schliesser, Assistant Professor in Quantum Optics and Oliver Gressel, Assistant Professor in Astrophysics and Planetary Science has received grants totalling more than 21 million kroner…

Allison Man

Galaxy Evolution Over the Past Eleven Billion Years: Mergers and Quiescence Advisor: Sune Toft Co-advisor: Andrew Zirm

Heng Shen

Spin squeezing and entanglement with room temperature atoms for quantum sensing and communication Academic supervisor: Prof. Eugene S. Polzik

Malte Nordmann Winther

Continous measurements of Nitrous Oxide isotopomers produced by nitrifying and denitrifying bacteria Supervisors: Anders Svensson & Paul Vallelonga

Green light for construction of the E-ELT

The ESO Council has now decided to start building the new large European telescope E-ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope) on 1 January 2015. This begins the first phase of construction of the world’s largest…

Congratulations to Antje Fitzner

Congratulations to Antje Fitzner from Centre for Ice and Climate who succesfully defended her PhD thesis on December 1st. 2014 and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Asger Grønnow

Mergers produce outliers from the fundamental metallicity relation Academic Supervisors: Kristian Finlator and Lise Christensen

Maria Arvaniti

Application of Contactless Conductivity Detection to Ice Core Analysis Supervisors: Anders Svensson and Paul Vallelonga

Jérôme Chappellaz receives the Niels Bohr Institute’s Medal of Honour

Jérôme Chappellaz is a glaciologist and the director of LGGE in Grenoble, France. He researches ice cores from Antarctica and Greenland and analyses the atmospheric composition in order to reconstruct past natural…

Stefan L. Christensen

Generation of exotic quantum states of a cold atomic ensemble Principal supervisor: Prof. Eugene S. Polzik

Using supermassive black holes to measure cosmic distances

One of the major problems in astronomy is measuring very large distances in the universe. Research from DARK shows that precise distances can be measured using supermassive black holes. The results are now published in…

Using supermassive black holes to measure cosmic distances

One of the major problems in astronomy is measuring very large distances in the universe. The current most common methods measure relative distances, but now research from the Niels Bohr Institute demonstrates that…

Eugene Polzik receives Danish Association of Masters and PhDs’ Research Award

Eugene Polzik, professor and head of the research group Quantop at the Niels Bohr Institute has received the 2014 Danish Association of Masters and PhDs’ Research Award for Science and Technology.

Mystery of dwarf galaxy could be ejected black hole

Astronomers have observed a mysterious pheno- menon, which could be a massive black hole that has been ejected into space in connection with two galaxies colliding. This may be due to gravitational waves from the…

Mystery of dwarf galaxy could be ejected black hole

Astronomers have observed a mysterious phenomenon, which could be a massive black hole that has been ejected into space in connection with two galaxies colliding. This may be due to gravitational waves from the…

Johannes Borregaard

Quantum repeaters and atomic ensembles Academic advisor: Anders S. Sørensen

Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti is next CERN Director-General

At its 173rd Closed Session today, CERN Council selected the Italian physicist, Dr Fabiola Gianotti, as the Organization’s next Director-General. She will begin on 1 January 2016 and run for a period of five years.