What if time could be measured with near-perfect precision? By harnessing atom vibrations, scientists like Professor Vladan Vuletić are doing just that. #atomicphysics
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Professor Michael McDonald teaches enlisted veterans and service members at the MIT Warrior-Scholar Project STEM boot camp every summer and co-manages the program.
A Quantum Leap: How Si-Hui Tan, PhD ’10 Is Rewriting the Future of Code physics.mit.edu?p=23405 (Link redirects to article by Stephanie M. McPherson, SM ’11 for MIT Technology Review - Photo credit: Conor McCabe)
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“Our results lay the groundwork for subsequent studies aiming to measure violations of fundamental symmetries at the nuclear level,” says study co-author Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz. “This could provide answers to some of the most pressing questions in modern physics.”
In a new study, MIT researchers, including Professor Liang Fu, evaluated quantum materials’ potential for scalable commercial success — and identified promising candidates. #cmt
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A new method turns down quantum noise that obscures the “ticking” of atoms, and could enable stable, transportable atomic clocks. #atomicphysics #VladanVuletic
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Big news: MIT is joining the Giant Magellan Telescope consortium!
This $2.6B observatory in Chile will have 5× the light-gathering power of today’s telescopes, enabling breakthroughs in exoplanets, black holes, and more.
#MIT #GMT #Astrophysics
At MIT’s Formaggio Lab, Junior Peña’s work may help researchers pinpoint the elusive particle’s mass—and refine the fundamental laws of physics in the process.
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Are Space and Time Created by Quantum Error Correction?
Prof Daniel Harlow joins Brian Greene to explore black holes, holography, and the surprising connection between spacetime and algorithms that perform quantum error correction.
MIT Physics Celebrates Professor Irwin Pless’s 100th birthday on March 11, 2025
Pless has made significant contributions to the fields of Experimental Particle Physics, Heavy ion collisions research, and Neutrino Astrophysics.
Congratulations! Professor Netta Engelhardt honored with 2025 DOE Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
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Longtime MIT faculty member, Hale Van Dorn Bradt PhD '61, passed away on Thursday, November 14, 2024, at Salem Hospital, surrounded by his loving family. He used X-ray astronomy to study neutron stars and black holes and led the All-Sky Monitor instrument on NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. #RIP
"If selected to move forward," explains Erin Kara, associate professor of physics and deputy principal investigator for AXIS, "AXIS will answer some of the biggest mysteries in modern astrophysics."
MIT Physics awardees include Professor Vladan Vuletić, graduate student Jiliang Hu ’19, PhD ’24; as well as 5 alumni. New APS Fellows include Professor Joseph Checkelsky and 4 alumni. Congrats to all!
In 2004, physicists reported something remarkable: they had isolated ultrathin films of carbon atoms using sticky tape alone, and found that the films had astounding properties. The finding would forever change condensed-matter physics.
Riccardo Comin says the best part of his job as a physics professor and exotic materials researcher is when his students come into his office to tell him they have new, interesting data. “That’s what makes it all worthwhile.”
Professor Pablo Jarillo Herrero, a Clarivate Citation Laureate 2024 and distinguished physicist, discusses his groundbreaking research in condensed matter physics.
John Belcher, the Class of 1922 Professor of Physics, who was a member of the original team that designed and built the plasma spectrometers, and John Richardson, principal research scientist at MIT Kavli, who is the experiment’s principal investigator, offered their reflections.
MIT has long been a pioneer of quantum technologies. Now, Quantum@MIT is setting the stage for a new era
Among scientists doing such work, “I don’t think there’s been anybody who’s been more impactful,” says Dan Hooper, a physicist at the University of Chicago. “She’s as big a deal as I can make her out to be.”
“You have these two looming open-ended puzzles,” says study co-author Rohan Naidu, a postdoc in MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. “We find that in fact, early dark energy is a very elegant and sparse solution to two of the most pressing problems in cosmology.”
Sara Seager, among three MIT professors, accepted this year's prestigious Kavli Prize from King Harald V of Norway in Oslo on Sept. 3. Congratulations again to Professor Seager!
