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FET Open Grant for Many Photon Entanglement 05 December 2019
The Leiden Institute of Physics (LION) is the coordinating partner in the Qluster research project, which was awarded a 2,9 million euro FET Open gran...
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Superconductivity theory under attack 28 November 2019
Measurements on a superconducting material show an abrupt transition between a normal metal and a 'strange' metal. The really strange thing, however, ...
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Chris Smiet wins Christiaan Huygens prize 07 October 2019
Christopher Berg Smiet, who defended his thesis at LION with Dirk Bouwmeester, won the Christiaan Huygens prize for his thesis '‘Knots in Plasma’. On...
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The Netherlands as an international centre for quantum technology 17 September 2019
State secretary Mona Keijzer received the National Agenda on Quantum Technology from Robbert Dijkgraaf on 16 September. With this agenda, Dutch knowle...
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Stacked graphene layers act as a mirror for electron beams 19 August 2019
Stacked layers of graphene can act like a mirror for beams of electrons. Physicists Daniël Geelen and colleagues discovered this using a new type of e...
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Cum laude physicist Tom O’Brien to research quantum chemistry by quantum computers 20 June 2019
With defending his thesis ‘Applications of topology to Weyl semimetals and quantum computing’, the Leiden theoretical physicist Tom O'Brien has gained...
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The most stable microscope in the world 07 May 2019
Making the most vibration-free, cryogenic scanning tunneling microscope in the world. A bold mission, but one that PhD candidate Irene Battisti succes...
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Supercurrents gone chiral: new type of superconducting junction 21 December 2018
Unconventional superconductors form one of the big mysteries in physics. Among them is strontium ruthenate, which stands out as a controversial superc...
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Aarts and Cheianov receive NWO Physics Projectruimte 21 December 2018
NWO has granted Jan Aarts en Vadim Cheianov a Physics Projectruimte, a granting instrument for small-scale projects that propose innovative fundamenta...
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Leiden involved in three out of five Physics Vrije Programma grants 21 December 2018
NWO has assigned Physics Vrije Programma grants to five collaborations of physicists. Leiden University is involved in three of them.
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HTSM grant for physicist Tjerk Oosterkamp 19 December 2018
This header image was once elected Image of the Week by De Volkskrant and won second place in the LION Image Award. The research behind it is no less ...
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Insulating phenomenon in superconductor 08 October 2018
Leiden physicist Milan Allan and his group have discovered an apparent paradox within a material that has zero electrical resistance. They measured tr...
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Insulator becomes conductor at the push of a button 11 September 2018
Ionic liquids are important in scientific research because they can apply a lot of charge over a surface. Leiden physicists have now found that the ch...
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Where does the quantum world end? 30 August 2018
With his ice-cold nano force sensor, Tjerk Oosterkamp searches for the boundary between the quantum world and the everyday world. The Leiden physicist...
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Surprising similarity between stripy black holes and high-temperature superconductors 23 July 2018
We don’t understand how some materials become superconducting at relatively high temperatures. Leiden physicists have now found a surprising connectio...