By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 18 April 2021 Roman Pasechnik. Photo by Gunnar Ingelman For 50 years, the research community has been hunting unsuccessfully for the so-called Odderon particle. Now, a Swedish-Hungarian research group has discovered the mythical particle with the help of extensive analysis of experimental data from the Large Hadron Collider at

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/researchers-find-evidence-elusive-odderon-particle - 2025-02-03

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 12 August 2020 Martin Rey The question of how small, dwarf galaxies have sustained the formation of new stars over the course of the Universe has long confounded the world’s astronomers. An international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has found that dormant small galaxies can slowly accumulate gas over many bill

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/how-stars-form-smallest-galaxies - 2025-02-03

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Sune Svanberg) - published 6 July 2020 Terra cotta soldiers guarding the tomb of emperor Qin, China. Photo: Stockphoto According to  2200 years old records, the so far never opened tomb of emperor Qin should contain large amounts of liquid mercury, forming lakes and rivers of a large-scale “map” of China, which had been unified by him.  Recently, the rese

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/mercury-emission-terracotta-army-emperor-qins-mausoleum-xian-measured-lidar - 2025-02-03

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Webmaster) - published 6 December 2019 Anders Johansen Anders Johansen, professor in Astronomy at Lund University, has been chosen to be Wallenberg Scholar. The Wallenberg Scholar program focuses on Sweden's leading senior researchers. It was implemented because researchers need long-term funding without the distraction of pressure to secure external gran

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/anders-johansen-has-been-chosen-be-wallenberg-scholar - 2025-02-03

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 25 January 2021 Photo by Unsplash Theories were introduced as far back as the 1960s about the possible existence of superheavy elements. Their most long-lived nuclei could give rise to a so-called “island of stability” far beyond the element uranium. However, a new study, led by nuclear physicists at Lund University, shows that

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/nuclear-physicists-voyage-towards-mythical-island - 2025-02-03

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 11 June 2021 Researchers Birger Schmitz (left) and Fredrik Terfelt (right) dissolved almost ten tonnes of sedimentary rocks from ancient seabeds. Photo by Johan Joelsson. For the first time, a unique study conducted at Lund University in Sweden has tracked the meteorite flux to Earth over the past 500 million years. Contrary to

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/earths-meteorite-impacts-over-past-500-million-years-tracked - 2025-02-03

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Webmaster) - published 17 October 2019 Martin Leijsne. Photo: Kennet Ruona Martin Leijnse, researcher in solid state physics at Lund University in Sweden, has received a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) synergy grant worth EUR 1.5 million. He shares the total grant amount of EUR 10 million with three researchers from the University of Copenhage

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/erc-grant-research-unusual-quantum-state - 2025-02-03

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Webmaster) - published 9 September 2019 Maria Messing Associate Professor Maria Messing received the Smoluchowski Award August 27, 2019, during the Annual European Aerosol Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden. The Smoluchowski Award, named after the physicist Marian Smoluchowski (1872 – 1917) is awarded annually to one or two young researchers (under 40 years

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/smoluchowski-award-maria-messing - 2025-02-03

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 8 September 2021 Physics researchers Peter Samuelsson, on the left, and Ville Maisi show the small brass component that contains connectors, microwave circuits and nanowires. PHOTO: SIMON WOZNY In a pioneering nanoexperiment, a research team in Lund has succeeded in constructing a new and very effecient microwave p

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/successful-experiment-microwaves-could-result-better-quantum-computers - 2025-02-03

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Webmaster) - published 4 December 2019 Kimberly Dick Thelander. Photo Kimberly Dick Thelander has been named Wallenberg scholar. The Wallenberg Scholar program focuses on Sweden’s leading senior researchers. It was implemented because researchers need long-term funding without the distraction of pressure to secure external grants in order to carry out wor

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/kimberly-dick-thelander-named-wallenberg-scholar - 2025-02-03

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 29 October 2021 While in Skåne, Swedish Minister of EU Affairs Hans Dahlgren and his entourage particularly asked for visiting NanoLund – and had a close look at the Lund Nano Lab. Photo: Evelina Lindén The semiconductor shortage was one reason why Swedish Minister of EU Affairs Hans Dahlgren recently visited NanoLund and the L

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/minister-eu-affairs-paid-nanolund-visit - 2025-02-03

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Webmaster) - published 5 December 2019 Jan Marcus Dahlström The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has announced 29 new Wallenberg Academy Fellows. Jan Marcus Dahlström from Lund University is one of them. The Wallenberg Academy Fellowship is a five-year grant that provides the young researchers with opportunities to make important scientific breakthrou

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/jan-marcus-dahlstrom-becomes-wallenberg-academy-fellow - 2025-02-03

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 22 December 2021 Arsenic and bismuth atoms on surface terraces of a GaAs nanowire. The red structures are GaBi islands. Figure: Johan Knutsson / Lund University / Nature Communications Site-selected crystal material synthesis at the atomic scale has been a long-standing challenge. NanoLundians Rainer Timm and Yi Liu use nanowire

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/novel-nanostructure-formation-atomic-scale-precision - 2025-02-03

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 22 December 2021 The new study could be useful for future pandemics. ILLUSTRATION: UNSPLASH Using a mathematical model, researchers have been able to link confirmed covid-19 cases with intensive care admissions and deaths. The model, which allows prediction and planning of health care burden, could be valuable duri

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/mathematical-model-useful-pandemic-planning - 2025-02-03

By jonas [dot] andersson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jonas Andersson) - published 10 February 2022 Anne L'Huillier. The Wolf Prize in Physics has been awarded to Anne L'Huillier at the Department of Physics, Lund University, Paul Corkum at the University of Ottawa, and Ferenc Krausz at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics and Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. They were selec

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/professor-anne-lhuillier-awarded-wolf-prize-physics - 2025-02-03

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 26 April 2022 Illustration by Claudio Verdozzi Research at Lund University in Sweden has found a new way to create nano-sized magnetic particles using ultrafast laser light pulses. The discovery could pave the way for new and more energy-efficient technical components and become useful in the quantum computers of t

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/researchers-create-exotic-magnetic-structures-laser-light - 2025-02-03

By johan [dot] lindskoug [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Lindskoug) - published 9 May 2022 Professor Janne Rydberg. Photo: Per Bagge The 2022 Rydberg lecture will be given by Professor Jun Ye, Fellow of JILA and the NIST, as well as an adjoint professor in the physics department at the University of Colorado, USA. Professor Jun Ye's research focuses on the development of new tools for light-ma

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/jun-ye-give-2022-rydberg-lecture - 2025-02-03

By johan [dot] lindskoug [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Lindskoug) - published 16 May 2022 Kim Svensson. Photo: Moa Eriksson What role does programming play in physics teaching? Can programming be used to teach physical concepts? In his dissertation, Kim Svensson examines how the movement between formula, code and visualisation can contribute to learning in physics. In the future, Kim hopes t

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/freer-programming-can-help-evolve-physics-education - 2025-02-03

By evelina [dot] linden [at] luhm [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 2 September 2022 Anne L’Huillier, Professor of Atom Physics and member of NanoLund, is awarded the Gothenburg Lise Meitner Award. Photo: Kennet Ruona In memory of the nuclear physicist Lise Meitner, the Gothenburg Physics Centre since 2006 awards a prize to a scientist who made a breakthrough discovery in physics. Nex

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/gothenburg-lise-meitner-award-anne-lhuillier - 2025-02-03

By jessika [dot] sellergren [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessika Sellergren) - published 22 September 2022 Lars Samuelson celebrates together with colleagues including Lund University. vice chancellor Erik Renström, NanoLund directors Anders Mikkelsen and Maria Messing – and, online, colleagues from the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). Lars Samuelson, professor of nanotechno

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/lars-samuelson-receives-ivas-great-gold-medal - 2025-02-03