News about Physics

Study finds racism—and resistance to it—beneath the surface in high school physics

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen wanted to understand how high school students interacted with a physics learning game. However, the observations contained so many examples of problematic behavior that it…

Sho Tamaki

Optomechanical Crystals with Gallium Phosphide Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Albert Schliesser

NQCP Education & Outreach Group

Building the Quantum Workforce: A profile of the Education and Outreach team at NQCP.

Strong at LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Barcelona

Recently, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration hosted one of its biannual meetings in Barcelona from September 23-26, 2024. The goal was to gather many members of the collaboration working on a vast variety of topics…

Jonas Bundgaard Mathiassen

Design and Fabrication of Suspended Si3N4 Photonic Crystal Devices For Use With Cold Atoms Supervised by Professor Eugene S. Polzik, Assistant Professor Jean-Baptiste Béguin

"Islands" of Regularity Discovered in the Famously Chaotic Three-Body Problem

When three massive objects meet in space, they influence each other through gravity in ways that evolve unpredictably. In a word: Chaos. That is the conventional understanding. Now, a researcher from the University of…

"Islands" of Regularity Discovered in the Famously Chaotic Three-Body Problem

When three massive objects meet in space, they influence each other through gravity in ways that evolve unpredictably. In a word: Chaos. That is the conventional understanding. Now, a researcher from the University of…

Julian Curry Robinson-Tait

Cavity Enhanced Phase Measurements and Continuous Atomic Clocks Supervisor: Jörg Helge Müller

The annual Niels Bohr Institute photo

October 7 is the birthday of Niels Bohr, and according to our tradition at the institute, the annual photo of the institute's many employees is taken that morning in front of the institute at Blegdamsvej 17.

Vitor Cardoso appointed Center Leader of new Center of Excellence

Danish National Research Foundation appoints Vitor Cardoso Center Leader of new Center of Excellence. The Niels Bohr Institute will host a new DNRF Center of Excellence, the Center of Gravity (CoG). The CoG will bring…

Center of Gravity (CoG): a new DNRF Center of Excellence at NBI

In 2025, NBI will host a new DNRF Center of Excellence called the Center of Gravity (CoG), to link theory and observations with the primary goal of uncovering the fundamental physics governing the nature of gravity at…

Center of Gravity (CoG): a new DNRF Center of Excellence at NBI

In 2025, NBI will host a new DNRF Center of Excellence called the Center of Gravity (CoG), to link theory and observations with the primary goal of uncovering the fundamental physics governing the nature of gravity at…

Center of Gravity (CoG): a new DNRF Center of Excellence at NBI

In 2025, NBI will host a new DNRF Center of Excellence called the Center of Gravity (CoG), to link theory and observations with the primary goal of uncovering the fundamental physics governing the nature of gravity at…

International science journalist visits the Niels Bohr Institute

With an international Maria Leptin journalist scholarship behind him, science journalist Jens Degett will contribute in the coming months by disseminating stories from the Niels Bohr Institute. Until December, he will…

Martin Cramer Pedersen receives Villum Experiment Grant

Active matter systems such as cells, bacteria, and living organisms are characterized by the continuous injection or conversion of energy by its constituents. Such systems are not in thermodynamic equilibrium and…

Troels Petersen joins as Denmark's scientific delegate at CERN

On October 1st 2024 Troels Christian Petersen, a NBI researcher in particle physics for many years, will join as Denmark's CERN scientific delegate.

Strong at TEONGRAV

Last week, Sept 16-20, La Sapienza University of Rome hosted the first TEONGRAV international workshop on the theory of gravitational waves. TEONGRAV is a collaboration of 11 research groups from across Italy, all…

Blockbuster of the Blok - Ala Trusina

The NBI teaching committee has decided to highlight a teacher four times a year to recognize outstanding teaching at the institute. In Blok 4 i 2024 it's Ala Trusina.

Strong hosted Ringdown Inside and Out

This summer the Strong group hosted the Ringdown Inside and Out meeting. The event took place in Copenhagen from August 22-24, 2024, inside the glass conference room of the Danish Architecture Center (DAC), directly…

Spin Qubits

Spin Qubits: Characterization and Integration of Low-noise Building Blocks

Master Project Description At NQCP, we aim at developing quantum technology that can enable solving life-science relevant problems. Practical quantum computing will require millions of interacting and high-quality…

Laura Bassi award for Maggio

Elisa Maggio received the Laura Bassi Prize for early-career women in physics by the Italian Physics Society. She received the prize on September 9th at the national congress of the Italian Physics Society in Bologna…

Weak Leaks of Wave Dark Matter

Extensions to the Standard Model suggest the existence of new ultralight fundamental fields, potentially describing dark matter, that are up to 10^28 times lighter than the electron. In a Physical Review Letters,…

Azzurra d’Alessandro

Exoplanetary atmospheres, spectrum computations, and temperature inversions Supervisor: Uffe Gråe Jørgensen