IIP research on quantum internet is on the cover of Physical Review Letters

Published Fri, May 29, 2020
The paper written by researchers of the International Physics Institute at UFRN was selected to be the cover of the most recent edition of the Physical Review Letters magazine, published on Friday, May 29, 2020. The article “Statistical Properties of the Quantum Internet”, presents a...

Novas evidências sobre o efeito quântico de Hall em supercondutores topológicos

Published Thu, May 28, 2020
Um trabalho publicado na Physics Review X propõe que o efeito quântico de Hall aparece em supercondutores topológicos, os quais poderiam ser utilizados para construir um computador quântico robusto contra os efeitos de decoerência locais. A pesquisa, realizada por...

IIP researchers use neutron stars as laboratories to study dark matter

Published Wed, May 27, 2020
Researchers at the International Physics Institute at UFRN are working on new ways to better understand what dark matter really is. The IIP Particle and Astroparticulate Physics group developed a detection method based on spectroscopic measurements of neutron stars. The results are available in the...

Field theory approach to protein folding

Published Wed, May 20, 2020
Physicists at the IIP-UFRN are using unconventional tools from physics research to study the ways in which protein molecules can fold themselves, a phenomena that is the basis of the existence of life. The paper “Chern-Simons-Higgs model as a theory of protein molecules” on this...

Dia Nacional do Físico 2020

Published Tue, May 19, 2020
Nesta terça-feira, 19 de maio, o Brasil comemora o Dia Nacional do Físico, data definida pela Sociedade Brasileira de Física (SBF) em alusão à 1905, o assim chamado, “Ano Milagroso” em que Albert Einstein publicou quatro trabalhos que tiveram profundo...

IIP researcher talks about the growth of COVID-19 in Brazil

Published Fri, May 15, 2020
Professor Rafael Chaves, lead researcher of the quantum information group at the IIP-UFRN, was one of those interviewed by the Tribuna do Norte newspaper, in an article about the growth in the number of COVID-19 cases in Brazil and about the importance of maintaining population quarantine levels...