Entanglement entropy of a particle coupled to an electromagnetic field

Published Fri, Aug 21, 2020
Named by one of the founders of Quantum Mechanics, Erwin Schrödinger, entanglement is the distinctive feature of quantum systems. It accounts for the apparent paradoxical fact that in a quantum system the best knowledge of the state of the whole system (particle+electromagnetic field in our...

IIP researchers participate in international proposal for the construction of a new particle collider

Published Tue, Aug 18, 2020
A research group at the International Physics Institute of UFRN is participating in an international proposal for the creation of a new particle collider, which may provide answers to some mysteries of modern science, especially that of dark matter. The new detector would function as part of the...

IIP-UFRN celebrates 10 years of activities with a scientific lectures festival

Published Mon, Aug 17, 2020
In the photo above, the IIP reasearchers in 2017   The International Physics Institute of UFRN held between the 6th and 7th of August the “10 Years IIP Festival”, a virtual event with the participation of several IIP researchers and guests in a series of lectures aimed at...

Article presents new model with unconventional superconducting phase

Published Wed, Aug 12, 2020
In a new paper published this month in the magazine Physical Review B, Professor Rodrigo G. Pereira, from IIP-UFRN, presents a model proposal for 3/2 magnetic spin moments, guided by an analysis of symmetry and the requirement of an exact solution in terms of a representation of Majorana fermions...

IIP researcher is featured in Folha de São Paulo's article

Published Mon, Aug 03, 2020
Dr. Samuraí Brito, post-doctoral researcher at the International Physics Institute at UFRN, was featured in an article from Folha de São Paulo about her publication about quantum networks, featured on the cover of the May issue of Physics Review Letters. The paper has a strong...

IIP 10 years festival takes place in August

Published Wed, Jul 29, 2020
The 10-year IIP Festival will take place on the 6th and 7th of August, a commemorative event held by the International Physics Institute of UFRN and held in a virtual environment, with live broadcasts through the IIP channel on Youtube. Researchers from the Institute will present free lectures on...