Description of glueballs through string theory

Published Fri, Dec 04, 2020
The IIP-UFRN publication was part of the doctorate thesis dissertation of the student Cornélio Rodrigues   String theory is a candidate theory to unify all fundamental forces of nature. At very high energies this theory is expected to replace both the Standard Model of elementary...

Baryons, mesons, ... Glueballs?

Published Mon, Nov 30, 2020
Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is our current fundamental theory of strong interactions. It is precisely these interactions that are behind the force binding protons and neutrons in the atomic nuclei. Fundamental particles of quantum chromodynamics are quarks and gluons. Quarks and antiquarks join...

Electrical detection of Majorana fermions

Published Thu, Nov 26, 2020
Proposed in 2006 by Alexei Kitaev, the Kitaev spin liquid theory proposes the existence of a type of Majorana fermion particle inside it. Once manipulation is possible, a topological quantum computer could be built. This possibility has attracted the attention of experts because of recent...

Ising phase out of equilibrium phase transition

Published Fri, Nov 20, 2020
In a new article, published in the journal Physics Review B (Complexity and Floquet dynamics: non-equilibrium Ising phase transitions), Dr. Giancarlo Camilo (IIP-UFRN), in collaboration with Dr. Daniel Teixeira (IF-USP), present a study on the complexity of the time-dependent circuit...

New Quibits&Quasares podcast with prof. Rodrigo Pereira (Only portuguese)

Published Thu, Nov 19, 2020
In this week's Qubits & Quasares podcast we talked to Prof. Rodrigo Pereira, research leader in strongly correlated electronic systems at IIP-UFRN. Check out our chat about condensed matter, quantum matter, this year’s new discovery about superconductivity at room temperature and...

IIP researchers are on the list of the most influential researchers in the world

Published Wed, Nov 18, 2020
Professors Rafael Chaves, research leader in quantum information, and Farinaldo Queiroz, research leader in particle and astroparticle physics, were mentioned in the list of the most influential researchers in the world, developed by the scientific journal PLOS Biology. The ranking includes...