Published Tue, Oct 08, 2024
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced this Tuesday, October 8, the names of its laureate researchers for the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. Professors John J. Hopfield (Princeton University, USA) and Geoffrey E. Hinton (University of Toronto, Canada) were awarded for their fundamental... Published Tue, Sep 24, 2024
The International Institute of Physics at UFRN will host a seminar this Friday, September 27, featuring Dr. Hernan Bueno Xavier, a postdoctoral researcher at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP-Trieste, Italy). The “Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in a... Published Fri, Sep 13, 2024
In a study published in Physical Review B, Rafael A. Macêdo, a PhD student in the Quantum Information and Matter group at the International Institute of Physics (IIP) at UFRN, and Professor Rodrigo G. Pereira, one of the group's leaders, propose an innovative model for fractonic... Published Tue, Sep 10, 2024
The IIP hosted the International School on Collider Physics from September 2 to 6. The International Institute of Physics (IIP) at UFRN, in collaboration with the Institute of High Energy Physics of Chile (SAPHIR), organized the event, which was supported by UFRN’s Graduate Studies Office.... Published Wed, Sep 04, 2024
On September 2nd, the third edition of the New Frontiers in Physics—IIP-UFRN's School for Young Talents began. The event's opening featured a lecture by Professor William Phillips, an internationally renowned physicist and 1997 Nobel Prize laureate in physics. During his presentation,... Published Tue, Aug 27, 2024
In a new paper on transport in a strongly correlated one-dimensional fermionic chain, physicists address the emergence of fractional charges moving at different speeds. The work, titled "Nonlinear Effects on Charge Fractionalization in Critical Chains," offers a direct method for measuring...  |  |  |  |  |  |  |