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November 11, 2024
September 24, 2024
We are currently searching for a tenure track Assistant Professor in experimental atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics. The successful candidate will expand our existing AMO research efforts with neutral atoms and trapped ions, and will be welcomed into a vibrant campus-wide quantum research community with a variety of synergistic opportunities for collaboration. For more information and/or to apply for the position, please visit ... Read more
September 17, 2024
May 31, 2024
It came as a shock last year when a new effect was seen in electrons. Researchers at the University of Washington, led by Professor Xiaodong Xu, reported in August 2023 that in a stack of two atomically thin crystalline sheets offset from each other at a slight angle, electrons behaved like quasiparticles with fractional amounts of charge, such as −⅔ and −⅗. A few months later, a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported the same effect in another material. It was the first... Read more
May 29, 2024
April 3, 2024
David Kaplan is on a quest to straighten out chirality, or “handedness,” in particle physics. A theorist at the University of Washington, Seattle, Kaplan has been wrestling with chirality conundrums for over 30 years. The main problem he has been working on is how to place chiral particles, such as left-handed electrons or right-handed antineutrinos, on a discrete space-time, or “lattice.” That may sound like a minor concern, but without a solution to this problem the weak interaction—and by... Read more
March 24, 2024