News
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KHMW Graduation Prize for Anne Meeussen 28 November 2016
The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) has awarded Leiden Physics PhD student Anne Meeussen the Shell Graduation Prize in Physics...
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Three FOM-Projectruimte Grants for Leiden Physics 21 November 2016
The Leiden Institute of Physics has been awarded three out of twelve available grants from the FOM Projectruimte. Principal Investigators Milan Allan,...
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Material built from gears 21 November 2016
A specifically designed collection of gears is soft on one end and rigid on the other. These are robust properties of the system that hold even in the...
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New theory on liquid crystals with high symmetry 08 November 2016
LCD screens use liquid crystals which have a high degree of order, even though they form a fluid. A new theory maps out the interplay between order, t...
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Physicists find way to control fractures 12 October 2016
Rigid materials break more easily than floppy ones. This simple observation allows to predict and control the width of cracks. Theoretical understandi...
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Physics Nobel Prize to Former Lorentz Professor 05 October 2016
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 goes to David Thouless, Michael Kosterlitz and Duncan Haldane for theoretical discoveries in the field of topological ...
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Bernard van Heck Wins Christiaan Huygens Prize 2016 04 October 2016
Bernard van Heck has won the Christiaan Huygens Prize 2016 for his Leiden PhD research on electrical circuits for quantum computers. On behalf of the ...
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Paradox in superconductivity at high temperature 17 August 2016
Nature publishes an article on a paradoxical discovery in superconductivity. Physicists are searching for superconductivity at high temperatures so th...
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Electrons found to flow like water 07 March 2016
Science Magazine has published three back-to-back papers on an important discovery in solid state physics. Leiden physicist Jan Zaanen wrote a Perspec...
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FOM Grant for Theoretical Model Majorana Gun 12 January 2016
Professor Carlo Beenakker has been awarded a FOM Projectruimte subsidy to build a theoretical model of a majorana gun, a very promising instrument for...