For their work exploring “quantum weirdness” and “spooky action at a distance,” quantum physicists Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have received the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics. Aspect is a principal investigator for the Simons Collaboration on Localization of Waves.
Using artificial intelligence, physicists have compressed a daunting quantum problem that until now required 100,000 equations into a bite-size task of as few as four equations — all without sacrificing accuracy. The work, published in the September 23 issue of Physical Review Letters, could revolutionize how scientists investigate systems containing many interacting electrons. Moreover, if scalable to other problems, the approach could potentially aid in the design of materials with sought-after properties such as superconductivity or utility for clean energy generation.
A research project studying the afterglow of two neutron stars merging is this year’s winner of the Aspen Institute Italia Award, which recognizes outstanding scientific research and collaboration between Italy and the United States. The project’s members include Matteo Cantiello, a research scientist at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics. The award ceremony will take place on September 20.
The International Conference on Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories has awarded the Hermann Kümmel Early Achievement Award in Many-Body Physics to quantum physicist Aavishkar Patel. The award, presented today, recognizes “young physicists whose published work is a significant contribution to quantum many-body theory.”
Antoine Georges, the director of the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ), received the Feenberg Memorial Medal on September 14 at the International Conference Series on Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories. Georges shares the medal with CCQ long-term visiting scientist Gabriel Kotliar of Rutgers University and Dieter Vollhardt of the University of Augsburg in Germany.
Thirty-two talented undergraduate students will gain hands-on experience and contribute to neuroscience research as the newest class of the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB) Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program. This year’s class comprises 24 new fellows and eight returning fellows continuing their fellowships for a second year.
The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce its first class of Pivot fellows. The program will support the seven accomplished researchers as they apply their talent and expertise to a new field in mathematics or the natural sciences.
The Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain is pleased to announce two new collaborative projects funded through its research awards program. These projects focus on potentially conserved mechanisms of aging-related cognitive resilience and reserve in the absence of diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
Physicists are (temporarily) augmenting reality to crack the code of quantum systems.
By shining a laser pulse sequence inspired by the Fibonacci numbers at atoms inside a quantum computer, physicists have created a remarkable, never-before-seen phase of matter. The phase has the benefits of two time dimensions despite there still being only one singular flow of time, the physicists report July 20 in Nature.