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A futuristic quantum computer chip is made of a grid with qubits on the intersections. These red spherical qubits emit flame-like energy between them.

MIT scientists tune the entanglement structure in an array of qubits

The advance offers a way to characterize a fundamental resource needed for quantum computing.

April 24, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Information Science

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A futuristic quantum computer chip is made of a grid with qubits on the intersections. These red spherical qubits emit flame-like energy between them.

MIT scientists tune the entanglement structure in an array of qubits

April 24, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Information Science
The columns of Building 7 are visible through green foliage on a sunny Spring day.

Twenty-three MIT faculty, five from Physics, honored as “Committed to Caring” for 2023-25

April 22, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus
Olivia Rosenstein stands with arms folded in front of a large piece of lab equipment

The many-body dynamics of cold atoms and cross-country running

April 19, 2024
Categories: Profile, Undergraduates, WiSTEM, Atomic Physics

Four MIT faculty named 2023 AAAS Fellows

April 18, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus
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Erin Kara named Edgerton Award winner

April 17, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Physics students to attend meeting of Nobel laureates

April 16, 2024
Categories: In The News, Undergraduates, Graduate Students, WiSTEM
twin rings of RHIC

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider begins Run 24

April 15, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment
Tracy Slatyer poses in front of chalkboard

Tracy Slatyer awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship

April 12, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Theory, High Energy and Particle Theory
In the center of a black background is a large circular object outlined by electric blue filaments that jolt and weave throughout the structure. The object, which is the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, includes strings of vibrant colors including purple, orange, yellow and blue.

A NASA telescope unlocked the mysteries of black holes. Now it’s on the chopping block

April 11, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Graduate student Michael Calzadilla awarded 2024 NASA Hubble Fellowship

April 10, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
The columns of Building 7 are visible through green foliage on a sunny Spring day.

QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 11 subjects for 2024

April 10, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors
Netta Engelhardt stands near stairway for a portrait. Dramatic diagonal shapes are created by the stairways and glass railings.

Physicist Netta Engelhardt is searching black holes for universal truths

April 9, 2024
Categories: Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
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