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Georgetown physicists help demonstrate photon coalescence from distinct sources
The development of practical devices for quantum computation will likely require interconnecting different types of subcomponents. Single photons are a promising means for this interconnection, but p
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Senior thesis leads to scientific publication
Recent Georgetown Physics graduate Mark Jreissaty (A.B. 2011) has turned his award-winning Senior Thesis into a scientific publication in the prestigious American Physical Society journal Physical Re
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Biopolymers help visualize mechanical strain
Georgetown Physicists Prof. Daniel Blair and Richard Arevalo, in a collaboration with scientists at the Technische Universität München (TUM) have unlocked a sixty year old mystery about the way polym
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Physics Major named Mitchell Scholar
The US-Ireland Alliance has named Georgetown Physics major, Derick Stace-Naughton, a Mitchell Scholar. The George J. Mitchell Scholarship program was created more than 10 years ago and has quickly be
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Georgetown Physicists Propose a Method to Create Atom Lasers in Optical Lattices
Publishing in Physical Review Letters (editors' suggestion), former Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Itay Hen and Prof. Marcos Rigol proposed a method to dynamically generate coherent matter waves in s
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Georgetown Physicists Participate in USA Science and Engineering Expo
On October 23rd and 24th Professor Blair and his lab members participated in the first USA Science and Engineering Expo on the National Mall. Their exhibit was titled, "Squishy Science: The W
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The 6th Mid-Atlantic Soft Matter Workshop
The sixth installment of the Mid-Atlantic Soft Matter Workshop will be held at Georgetown on Friday, June 18th from 8:00-5:00. To learn more about the workshop and to attend, you can go to the websit
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Georgetown Physicist Contributes to First Demonstration of the Relationship Between Frustration and Entanglement of Trapped Atoms
Georgetown Physics faculty member, Jim Freericks, contributed to the theoretical work of an analog quantum simulator that illustrates the behavior of frustration and links that behavior to quantum en
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Physics department to host summer REU program
The physics department has been selected to host a Research Experiences for Undergraduates program. Students from around the country will spend the summer at Georgetown engaging in focused research p
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Georgetown wins a $6.9 M grant for construction of the New Science Center
Led by faculty from the Physics and Chemistry departments, Georgetown has won a $6.9 million dollar grant that will help with the construction of the New Science Center (NSC). The grant will fund the
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