News
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How deep is a mirror? 18 March 2021
Light reflects from a mirror, but where exactly does this reflection happen? Well, it depends, Martin van Exter and Corné Koks discovered. Their preci...
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Two Marie Curie Grants for Leiden theorists 02 March 2021
Theoretical physicists Kevin Grosvenor and Sam Young have won Marie Curie grants for research projects at LION/Lorentz Institute.
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The hunt for the quantum collapse 24 February 2021
The most famous cat in science is Schrödinger's cat, the quantum mechanical mammal, which can exist in a superposition, a state that is alive as well ...
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The quest for the magic angle 18 February 2021
Stack two layers of graphene, twisted at slightly different angles to each other, and the material spontaneously becomes a superconductor. Science sti...
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Light particles lined up one after the other 22 January 2021
In Leiden, light particles march into Wolfgang Löffler’s experiments one by one. His research focuses on acquiring the fundamental knowledge needed to...
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The Mystery of the Pointy Droplets 21 January 2021
A certain type of oil droplets changes shape when cooled and shrunk: from spherical through icosahedral to flat hexagonal. Two competing theories coul...
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Rachel Doherty wins LION Image Award with famed Microboat image 17 January 2021
The annual LION Image award goes to the 30 micrometer long 3D printed microboat image that went viral earlier in October 2020, submitted by Rachel Doh...
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LION Image Awards 13 January 2021
On 15 January, the winner of the famed LION Image Award will be announced. Submissions ranged from the famous 3d printed microboat to an eerily abstra...
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Teaching Assistant Prize for Michał Pacholski and Koen van Deelen 12 January 2021
To improve our teaching and reward excellent teaching assistants, the institute offers a Teaching Assistant Prize to the best teaching assistant of t...
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NWA funding for communications research on quantum computing 22 December 2020
Leiden physicist Julia Cramer receives 50 thousand euros in funding for 'Let's talk about quantum', a research project on communication about quantum ...
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New ONEM Microscope to combine best of two worlds 15 December 2020
Leiden physicists have been awarded 1.5 million euros for developing a hybrid microscope that provided nanometer-resolution. 'The idea is to combine t...
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LION 2020 Image Award 11 December 2020
Corona be damned, it's high time for the yearly LION Image award! Deadline in a week.
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First NWO Communication Award for Leiden Wall Formula project 01 December 2020
Sense Jan van der Molen and Ivo van Vulpen have been awarded the first ENW Communication Award by funding agency NWO for their Wall Formula project. T...
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Leiden Physicists invent printable superconducting devices 27 November 2020
Superconducting devices such as SQUIDS (Superconducting Quantum Interferometry Device) can perform ultra-sensitive measurements of magnetic fields. Le...
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Consortium puts Quantum Computer in the cloud 25 November 2020
The quantum computer is on its way, but is society ready for it? Quantum computers have a reputation of being difficult to grasp because of their comp...