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Current quantum computers, utilizing technologies like the trapped ion device on the left, are beginning to tackle problems theoretical physicists care about, like simulating particle physics models. More than 60 years ago, the physicist Julian Schwinger laid the foundation for describing the relativistic and quantum mechanical behaviors of subatomic particles and the forces among them, and now his namesake model is serving as an early challenge for quantum computers.

Quantum Computers Are Starting to Simulate the World of Subatomic Particles

24 May 22

Destefano group

UMD Researchers Develop FANA Aptamers to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection

18 May 22

Bringing Health Care’s Vision of Tomorrow Into Focus

12 May 22

A curved and stretched sheet of graphene laying over another curved sheet creates a new pattern that impacts how electricity moves through the sheets. A new model suggests that similar physics might emerge if two adjacent universes are able to interact. (Credit: Alireza Parhizkar, JQI)

Bilayer Graphene Inspires Two-Universe Cosmological Model

05 May 22

New Scoring Scale Tracks the Harmful Effects of Salt Pollution in Freshwater Streams and Rivers

15 Mar 22

The ultrasensitive high-resolution mass spectrometer in the Nemes lab. Initial funding to build the instrument was provided by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.

UMD Chemist Pioneers Tool for Eavesdropping on Neurons

14 Feb 22

Orbits superimposed on contours of mass density. Milky Way is at the center, near Virgo Cluster.

Astronomers Trace Galaxy Flows Across 700 Million Light-Years

04 Feb 22

Satellite image of record extent of lightning flash over the southern United States on April 29, 2020

UMD Scientist Helps Certify Two New Megaflash Lightning Records

31 Jan 22

In new numerical experiments, quantum particles (black dots), which travel upward through time, are subject to random quantum processes (blue, green and yellow blocks). Depending on the likelihood of the different kinds of processes, the quantum particles ultimately end up in different entanglement phases. This figure shows five examples of randomly chosen processes acting on a small number of particles. (Credit: A. Lavasani/JQI)

Tug-of-War Unlocks Menagerie of Quantum Phases of Matter

25 Jan 22

New Chemistry Building

Frit, Fume Hoods and Flexibility

06 Jan 22

Professor Joan Jian-Jian Ren Builds Big Data Tools

04 Jan 22

community of microbes

Rethinking the Wild World of Species Diversity in Microbes

04 Jan 22

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