by RLE at MIT | Aug 28, 2025 | News Links
The longtime MIT professor shared a Nobel Prize for his role in developing the LIGO observatory and detecting gravitational waves. (MIT News) RELATED LINKS Rainer Weiss, Who Gave a Nod to Einstein and the Big Bang, Dies at 92 (NYTimes) Rainer Weiss...
by RLE at MIT | Sep 10, 2024 | News Links
Physicists capture images of ultracold atoms flowing freely, without friction, in an exotic “edge state.” (MIT News) RELATED LINKS Richard Fletcher Martin Zwierlein Research Laboratory of Electronics MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms...
by RLE at MIT | Feb 8, 2024 | RLE Recent Papers
Zhenjie Yan, Parth B. Patel, Biswaroop Mukherjee, Chris J. Vale, Richard J. Fletcher, Martin W. Zwierlein https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg3430 Abstract: Heat transport can serve as a fingerprint identifying different states of matter. In a...
by RLE at MIT | Jan 14, 2022 | News Links
The new observations record a key crossover from classical to quantum behavior. «more» Related Links: Professor Martin Zwierlein Ultracold Quantum Gases Group Physicists watch as ultracold atoms form a crystal of quantum tornadoes...
by RLE at MIT | Dec 8, 2020 | News Links
Researchers from MIT listened to sound waves moving through a “perfect fluid”. «more» Related Links: Scientists recreate sound from the heart of a neutron star using gas of atoms in a box of light (The Independent) Ultracold Quantum Gases Group Professor...