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ERC Advanced Grant for Carlo Beenakker to ‘braid’ Majorana fermions 29 March 2019
Theoretical physicist Carlo Beenakker has been awarded a €2m Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). He will use this to try to create ...
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ERC Advanced Grants for two Leiden researchers 28 March 2019
The European Research Commission (ERC) has awarded Advanced Grants to two Leiden researchers. Joke Meijer will be researching the effect of the biolog...
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Topological quantities flow 14 January 2019
Topology is an emerging field within many scientific disciplines, even leading to a Physics Nobel Prize in 2016. Leiden physicist Marcello Caio and hi...
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Carlo Beenakker receives honorary doctorate in Kiev 05 October 2018
Leiden physicist Carlo Beenakker has received an honorary doctorate from the Bogoliubov Institute for theoretical physics in Kiev.
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Livestream: Sean Carroll gives Ehrenfest Colloquium 25 September 2018
On Wednesday September 26th, theoretical physicist Sean Carroll will give an Ehrenfest colloquium. It is part of a lecture series that has been runnin...
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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...
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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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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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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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Black holes with ‘dreadlocks’ offer insight into quantum matter 06 November 2017
Physicists understand little about quantum matter, which is a building block of future quantum computers. Theorists have now discovered that black hol...
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Smart design carries sound one way 17 July 2017
A new computer simulation shows the promising possibilities of the booming field of topology. Smartly designed mechanical structures carry sound exclu...
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Peculiar particles show paradoxical behavior 23 May 2017
Theoretical physicists research a special class of particles; Weyl fermions. They have found them to exhibit paradoxical behavior, in contradiction to...
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Major Expansion Leiden Quantum Computing 08 May 2017
The 18.8 million euro NWO Zwaartekracht grant for quantum software which Amsterdam, Delft and Leiden landed collectively, means for Leiden University ...
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Developing quantum software with a grant of 18.8 million euros 04 May 2017
The first larger quantum computers will soon be available. These computers need new software. Researchers at Leiden University have been awarded a Gra...
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Materials made of self-spinning particles 05 December 2016
Materials are either gas, liquid or solid, based on how their molecules respond to temperature and pressure. But what if the building blocks are self-...