Researchers at IIP Point the Way to the Experimental Observation of Fractonic Criticality

Published Fri, Sep 13, 2024
In a study published in Physical Review B, Rafael A. Macêdo, a PhD student in the Quantum Information and Matter group at the International Institute of Physics (IIP) at UFRN, and Professor Rodrigo G. Pereira, one of the group's leaders, propose an innovative model for fractonic...

IIP hosts International School on Collider Physics

Published Tue, Sep 10, 2024
The IIP hosted the International School on Collider Physics from September 2 to 6. The International Institute of Physics (IIP) at UFRN, in collaboration with the Institute of High Energy Physics of Chile (SAPHIR), organized the event, which was supported by UFRN’s Graduate Studies Office....

Prof. William Phillips' lecture marks the beginning of the III Young Talents School at IIP

Published Wed, Sep 04, 2024
On September 2nd, the third edition of the New Frontiers in Physics—IIP-UFRN's School for Young Talents began. The event's opening featured a lecture by Professor William Phillips, an internationally renowned physicist and 1997 Nobel Prize laureate in physics. During his presentation,...

Researchers from IIP and the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau Propose a New Protocol for Out-of-Equilibrium Measurements in Quantum System Experiments

Published Tue, Aug 27, 2024
  In a new paper on transport in a strongly correlated one-dimensional fermionic chain, physicists address the emergence of fractional charges moving at different speeds. The work, titled "Nonlinear Effects on Charge Fractionalization in Critical Chains," offers a direct method for measuring...

IIP-UFRN researchers Analyze Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and Long-Lived Particles

Published Mon, Aug 26, 2024
Members of the Particle Physics and Astroparticle group at the International Institute of Physics at UFRN (IIP-UFRN), doctoral students Lucia Angel and José Roberto Alves, participated in a study investigating how long-lived particles, originating from dark sectors of the universe, might...

Third Edition of the School for Young Talents with a Nobel Physics Laureate

Published Tue, Aug 20, 2024
The International Institute of Physics at UFRN will hold the third edition of "New Frontiers in Physics—IIF School for Young Talents" from September 2nd to 20th, 2024. This event is designed to identify and develop high school and early undergraduate students with a special aptitude for...