Physicist Xie Xide, China's "Queen of Semiconductors", was born 105 years ago today. She survived tuberculosis, heart disease, breast cancer, and hard labor during the Cultural Revolution to become president of Fudan University.
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This semester, I formalized reading assignments on the work of science in my classical mechanics course.
I've called them 'Exercise 0' and they focus on labor, capital, and transparency.
Here's the first six: dannycaballero.info/phy321msu/ad...
Two more left!
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Chemist and physicist Ida Noddack was born 130 years ago today. In 1925 she and her husband co-discovered Rhenium, and her 1934 paper criticizing some results of Fermi anticipated the theory of nuclear fission.
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Hey #physicsSky, question from an 11-year old that I'm too tired to answer:
Where do photons go? Like, they bounce off of stuff and some hit our eyes and do something and that's sight, but what about photons that don't reflect off of a dark blanket or don't get all the way into a cave or dark place?
🔄How fast can a microlaser switch between competing states? Physics reveals a clear speed limit.
#PKUResearch team led by Prof. Xiao Yunfeng explores ultrahigh-Q microcavity lasers and their rapid, abrupt mode switching, key for reconfigurable photonic chips.
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A five-day lecture series complemented the main program, offering graduate students and early-career researchers a deeper dive into the field—and a glimpse of its future.🌌
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Organized by the School of Physics and hosted by the Center for High Energy Physics, the event featured 30+ invited talks spanning scattering amplitudes, conformal bootstrap, S-matrix theory, quantum integrability, and gravitational waves.
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Gravity brought us together—literally.
From 5–16 January 2026, the International Workshop on New Frontiers of Quantum Field and Gravity convened 130+ scholars from around the globe at #PekingUniversity.
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The I-field breaks T-symmetry via the dissipation term γu^μ∂_μI in the field equation:
□I + m²I + λI³ + γu^μ∂_μI = -g_I J
This is fundamental irreversibility—not emergent, not statistical!
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Check our new paper in Advanced Materials Interfaces @wiley.com @wileyonlinelibrary.bsky.social which looks topological surface states of the semimetal Ru₃Sn₇ with chemically realistic terminations.
👉 doi.org/10.1002/admi.202500711
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A corresponding commentary, “How to cage a unicorn—confining light in a tiny volume,” notes that this work advances our understanding of extreme light localization.
Read the commentary: doi.org/10.1186/s435...
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The study builds on the team’s 2024 formulation of the singularity-dispersion equation, further clarifying why this framework can bypass the conventional trade-off between strong confinement and high loss in #nanophotonics.
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#PekingUniversity researchers report a new type of electromagnetic eigenmode called the narwhal-shaped wavefunction, which enables deep sub-diffraction light confinement in lossless dielectric systems.
doi.org/10.1186/s435...
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A relational form of the discrete Stokes identity is derived from a single relational axiom: a Null state that carries no distinctions and no relations. 👇
N ≡ ∞ ≡ χ
zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/...
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Revisiting a year-old thread:
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#PhilosophySky something something #Nietzsche
"The #NerdReich want to be immortal, so let's reflexively argue that Universal Annihilationism Is Good, Actually"
#PekingUniversity researchers unveil “AI-Newton” — an AI system that, after being fed experimental data, can autonomously ‘discover’ key physics principles, mirroring the way humans build scientific knowledge.
go.nature.com/4nTx0I8
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Black hole secrets, won't you come
From the black hole Cygnus X-1 🎶
Black hole secrets, won't you come
won't you come 🎶
I'm gonna keep making this joke until somebody writes about my science news.
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Okay, now I want to know EXACTLY what velocity a hoagie/italian/sub-sandwich must achieve to pierce Kevlar.
I mean, my physics is weak, but such a velocity must (at least theoretically) exist, right?
Would 4,000 ft/second, for example, cut the mustard?
More?
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Hey, if anyone with permission to post on the #Physics ⚛️ and/or Science feeds thinks my random opinions about physics are actually worthy of being posted there, feel free to quote repost them with the ⚛️/🧪 emojis. I would be honoured.
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Their experiments distinguished the long-debated Higgs and Leggett modes by systematically tuning terahertz (THz) pump pulses, revealing how tailored THz pulses can control superconducting dynamics at the quantum level.
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Researchers unveiling the hidden rhythms of superconductors⚡
Wang Nanlin’s team at #PekingUniversity, together with collaborators, achieved selective excitation of collective modes in the multiband superconductor MgB₂.
doi.org/10.1103/b5h4...
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The event brought together over 250 experts, researchers, and students from 54 institutions worldwide to discuss cutting-edge topics in high-energy physics, including detector performance, software and computing, physics analysis, and future upgrades.
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1️⃣What is this paper about?
The paper explores #machinelearning (ML) potentials with charge equilibration (kQEq) models for atomistic simulations, focusing on how well they handle charge distribution and long-range electrostatic interactions in molecular systems.
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1️⃣What is the paper about?
A new #machinelearning model predicts how charging metal surfaces in liquids changes their energy—key for understanding electrochemical reactions. It links atomic-scale changes to applied voltage, using Cu(100)/OH as a case study.
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