UFRN researchers receive SBF awards for their theses

Published Tue, Jul 07, 2020
The Department of Theoretical and Experimental Physics at UFRN has two of its researchers among the winners in the latest edition of the SBF Doctoral Thesis Awards, announced last week. Dr. Diego Paiva Pires, a former post-doctoral researcher at the International Physics Institute at UFRN, was one...

Technical note from a group of Brazilian scientists warns of underreporting for COVID-19

Published Mon, Jul 06, 2020
A group of researchers from different universities and research centers in the country released on July 1 a technical note on the current situation of COVID-19 in Brazil, highlighting the possibility of an enormous underreporting of the number of cases across the country. The team is composed of...

LIGO / Virgo collaboration announces discovery of mysterious object in its latest detection

Published Thu, Jul 02, 2020
The collaboration Laser Interferometer GravitationalWave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo interferometer announced last June 23 another discovery about the characteristics of our Universe, obtained through a detection carried out in August 2019. The researchers found an object with a solar mass of...

XENON1T collaboration presents new results of its search for dark matter

Published Fri, Jun 26, 2020
The search for an explanation for what dark matter is, took another step last week, with the presentation of the results collected by the XENON1T collaboration team, an international scientific project that is carrying out the most sensitive dark matter experiment in the world. Physicists claim to...

Fundamental Aspects of String Theory Workshop holds virtual presentations and debates

Published Thu, Jun 18, 2020
The workhop Fundamental Aspects of String Theory ended last June 12. The event was hosted in a collaboration between the International Institute of Physics of UFRN and the ICTP-Saifr (São Paulo). Originally intended to be program hosted in Natal and São Paulo, the program had to be...

Entanglement Oscillations near a Quantum Critical Point

Published Wed, Jun 17, 2020
According to our everyday experience, macroscopic bodies out-of-equilibrium relax toward a stationary state that is largely independent of their initial conditions. This innocent observation has baffled physicists for long when applied to the quantum realm. Indeed, as a consequence of linearity...