By anneli [dot] lofgren [at] ftf [dot] lth [dot] se (Anneli Löfgren) - published 6 September 2023 The Department of Physics, Lund University. Photo: Hampus Nilsson, LU. The Swedish Government Agency for Innovation Systems, Vinnova, will invest in 11 new competence centers starting in January 2024. Among the new ones, two are directly connected to NanoLund and the Department of Physics – which, tog

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/department-physics-and-nanolund-involved-two-vinnovas-new-competence-centers - 2025-04-03

By johan [dot] lindskoug [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Lindskoug) - published 8 September 2023 Come and see our popular Physics and Laser show. Photo: Kennet Ruona. Would you like to look at the sun through stargazing binoculars or try your hand at physical experiments? During the Culture Night you are welcome to visit us and take part in our broad and exciting programme, where there is some

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/science-festival-culture-night - 2025-04-03

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 14 September 2023 Alfred Larsson assembles an electrochemical cell at the instrument "The Swedish Materials Science Beamline P21.2" at the PETRA III particle accelerator in Hamburg. Photo: Jinshan Pan. Corrosion-resistant metallic materials are required in applications such as rocket engines, nuclear power stations

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/researchers-reveal-deficiencies-corrosion-resistant-metallic-materials - 2025-04-03

By marianne [dot] loor [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Marianne Loor) - published 12 October 2023 Climate change and modern forestry methods result in more forest fires. Photo: iStockphoto All particles that reach the atmosphere cause different chemical reactions. Particles come partly from natural sources such as volcanic eruptions and forest fires, and partly from pollution and emissions. Aerosol re

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/increase-forest-fires-may-damage-crucial-ozone-layer - 2025-04-03

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 12 October 2023 Foto: Pixabay. If we can understand how and why light and matter behave as they do, we are one step closer to solving some of the most fundamental problems in physics. Finding the answers to these questions drives Ville Maisi, Associate Professor of Solid States Physics, Department of Physics. As long as he can

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/understanding-behaviour-light-and-matter-key-future-technologies - 2025-04-03

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 30 November 2023 Ruth Pöttgen. Photo Patrik Lundin, the Wallenberg Foundations. Ruth Pöttgen, Senior lecturer at the Department of Physics, has been appointed a Wallenberg Academy Fellow. The grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation provides her with funding for five years. Congratulations Ruth, how does

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/ruth-pottgen-becomes-wallenberg-academy-fellow - 2025-04-03

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 1 December 2023 Researchers have successfully mapped three stars in the centre of the Milky Way. Photographer: ESO. By analysing high-resolution data from a 10-metre telescope in Hawaii, researchers in Lund, Sweden, have managed to gain new insights into three stars in the centre of the Milky Way. The stars turned

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/astronomers-have-managed-date-three-mysterious-baby-stars-heart-milky-way - 2025-04-03

By sara [dot] hangsel [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Hängsel) - published 14 December 2023 Per Eng-Johnsson is the director of Lund Laser Centre and one of the team of researchers and doctoral students working closely with Anne L'Huillier, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2023. Photo: Charlotte Carlberg Bärg. Down in the basement of the Department of Physics, the now world-famous short laser pulses are

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/everyday-laser-flashes-and-real-world-attosecond-physics - 2025-04-03

By sara [dot] hangsel [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Hängsel) - published 15 December 2023 Welcome to participate in LTH's celebration of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023. Graphic: Linda Hansson, Portrait: Andreas Magnusson Qassim. On December 18th, it's time for LTH's official celebration of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics. Then our own laureate – Professor Anne L'Huillier – will hold a Nobel le

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/live-streaming-lth-nobel-lecture - 2025-04-03

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 9 January 2024 R. Michael Rich. Private Photo. The American astronomer R. Michael Rich has charted the innermost parts of the Milky Way using spectroscopy. R. Michael Rich have been appointed honorary doctors at the Faculty of Science at Lund University. Professor R. Michael Rich is based at the University of Calif

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Published 9 January 2024 Eva Lindroth. Photo: Stockholm University. Eva Lindroth is professor of Theoretical Physics at Stockholm University. In addition to being a highly cited and excellent researcher, she has been assistant supervisor for several LTH doctoral students, a frequent visiting lecturer and has included LTH doctoral students on courses at Stockholm University. All in all, she has hel

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By evelina [dot] linden [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 12 January 2024 90 MSEK goes to Lund when research initiative WISE invests half a billion SEK in material science for increased sustainability – the largest investment in material science in Sweden. Photo: Kennet Ruona WISE, the Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability, is the largest-ever investment

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/tremendous-impact-transformation-towards-sustainable-future - 2025-04-03

By johan [dot] lindskoug [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Lindskoug) - published 22 January 2024 Snails with antennae illustrating nanowires. Illustration by Anastasia Tsioki. Jonas Johansson is a professor of physics and develops new knowledge for the production of materials at the nanoscale. Anastasia Tsioki is a first-year student on LTH's MSc in Engineering Nanoscience programme. When Jonas

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/snails-illustrate-how-new-materials-can-be-built-nano-level - 2025-04-03

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 13 February 2024 The new findings could enable larger and more complicated circuits - crucial to unlocking the enormous computational power of quantum computers. Photo: Unsplash. By utilising quantum mechanics, a quantum computer can solve computational problems that today's supercomputers cannot. But there are pro

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/new-way-designing-circuits-could-lead-large-scale-quantum-computers - 2025-04-03

By johan [dot] lindskoug [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Lindskoug) - published 20 February 2024 Tavakoli's findings show that minor detector imperfections can significantly impact steering tests, but a new method adapts for these flaws based on experimental control, allowing analysis without assuming perfect detectors. Illustration: Armin Tavakoli. Entanglement, once dismissed by Einstein as

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/detecting-spooky-action-distance-imperfect-detectors - 2025-04-03

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 23 February 2024 Computer simulation of the formation of galaxies. Photo: The AGORA Collaboration. Astronomers can use supercomputers to simulate the formation of galaxies from the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago to the present day. But there are a number of sources of error. An international research team, led by

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/new-super-simulation-how-galaxies-are-formed - 2025-04-03

Published 4 April 2024 Heiner Linke and Vanya Darakchieva. Photograph. Vanya Darakchieva, Professor of Semiconductor Materials, and Heiner Linke, Professor of Nanophysics, have been named Wallenberg Scholars, a programme funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to support excellent basic research, primarily in medicine, engineering and natural sciences. Anne L'Huillier, Kimberly Dick The

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By kommunikation [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Jonas Andersson) - published 26 April 2024 Marcus Dahlström himself has illustrated an atom that is dressed and entangled with an electron. Particles, sometimes a long way from one another, can be entangled. This strange phenomenon completely confounds our intuition, but the explanation for it has been provided through quantum mechanics. Researchers a

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/new-key-world-quantum-mechanics-intensity-light-affects-electrons-kinetic-energy - 2025-04-03

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 2 May 2024 The Gaia space telescope, launched in 2013, is mapping the Milky Way through astrometry. Photo: ESA/ATG medialab; background: ESO/S. Brunier. Thanks to the Gaia space telescope, scientists have discovered a black hole in the Milky Way. The object, Gaia BH3, is located in the Eagle constellation, less tha

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/scientists-find-spectacular-black-hole - 2025-04-03

Published 12 May 2024 Mats Lindroos. Photo: ESS. Mats Lindroos has suddenly left us. Until recently, he worked at the Department of Physics. We remember him as a passionate, brave and valued colleague. Mats was an adjunct professor at the Division of Particle and Nuclear Physics. His colleagues at the research division miss a valued fellow researcher:"Mats Lindroos, in memoriamIt was with great re

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/memory-mats-lindroos - 2025-04-03