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New practice tool for quantum computer coding: OpenFermion 28 March 2018
In a global effort, quantum computers are rapidly being developed. In the meantime, researchers have to learn how to write code for these devices, whi...
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Century-old law on electric noise overturned 27 March 2018
Electric noise can be useful for scientists but inconvenient for chip manufacturers. They do share a wish to predict the amount of noise. PhD student ...
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Using gold particles to make the invisible visible 27 March 2018
Gold nanoparticles give us a better understanding of enzymes and other molecules. Biswajit Pradhan, PhD candidate at the Leiden Institute of Physics, ...
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How to easily measure your health 26 March 2018
Easily detecting chemical substances that indicate whether or not someone is ill, or measuring how healthy the environment is, and directly linking th...
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Two graphene layers lean in for a kiss 23 March 2018
Leiden physicists and chemists have managed to bring two graphene layers so close together that an electric current spontaneously jumps across. In the...
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TOP subsidy for research into sustainable platinum electrodes 20 March 2018
Leiden research into the properties of platinum receives a TOP subsidy of 780.000 euros from the The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research ...
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NWO Projectruimte for physicists Schalm and Zaanen 16 March 2018
NWO has awarded a €392k Projectruimte grant to physicists Koenraad Schalm and Jan Zaanen to study ‘strange metals’. These materials are alleged to fol...
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'Stephen Hawking put abstract science on the map' 14 March 2018
Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking (76) passed away on 14 March at his home in Cambridge, having been a long-term sufferer of the muscular disease ...
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Original letters Einstein and Lorentz donated to museum Boerhaave 13 March 2018
Museum Boerhaave amplifies its collection with original letters and pictures from Einstein and Lorentz. Professor by special appointment Dirk van Delf...
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Tom Lubensky appointed 2018 Lorentz Professor 01 March 2018
Coming spring, Professor Tom Lubensky from the University of Pennsylvania will be the 64th Lorentz Professor at the department of Theoretical Physics....
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Novel set in Ehrenfest house 27 February 2018
Leiden alumnus and writer Tomas Lieske has published a novel which is set in the house of Paul Ehrenfest. Ehrenfest was a famous physicist who organiz...
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Project ‘Quantum Rules’ takes off 16 February 2018
Over the past two years, the Physics department has been supporting high school physics education with a set of challenging quantum experiments. Schoo...
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Super women on superconductivity: International Day of Women and Girls in Science 13 February 2018
Since 2015 the United Nations have declared 11 February the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Leiden University organized a public even...
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Why does Ronald Mulder experience hardly any ice friction at 60 km/h? 12 February 2018
How can Ronald Mulder run his skates across an ice layer at 60 km/h? His skating blades get help from a lubricating layer of meltwater. In Leiden, phy...
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Electrons give resist layer electrical charge 07 February 2018
Leiden physicists found a surprising interaction between electrons and a resist layer. The resist appears to charge and discharge due to incoming elec...