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November 16, 2015
Many physicists believe that entanglement is the essence of quantum weirdness — and some now suspect that it may also be the essence of space-time…
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November 8, 2015
Stanford Physicists Xiaoliang Qi and Leonardo Senatore won New Horizons in Physics Prizes for their outstanding contributions to fundamental physics.
October 27, 2015
Circumventing a no-go theorem established in 1977 by nonlinearly realized supersymmetry, the authors construct for the first time a pure (without…
October 13, 2015
Tensor networks provide toy models which explicitly realize many puzzling features of AdS/CFT correspondence
Crucial measurements were made at the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector in Japan
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October 6, 2015
Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald led two teams which made key observations of the particles inside big underground instruments in Japan and Canada…
September 25, 2015
Ground states of quantum matter can often be distinguished by their zero temperature electrical properties. This way, superconductors, metals…
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August 19, 2015
Kicking the world’s largest machine into overdrive is turning out to be harder than expected.
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August 5, 2015
The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the establishment of two Simons Collaborations in Mathematics and the Physical Sciences: the Simons…
June 16, 2015
A talk describing a new candidate dual to pure 3d supergravity, as well as the relationship between enumerative geometry of K3 and moonshine.
April 24, 2015
A bold new idea aims to link two famously discordant descriptions of nature. In doing so, it may also reveal how space-time owes its existence to the…
April 21, 2015
A basic question in black hole horizon physics the leading breakdown of the low-energy description in terms of quantum fields and…
April 13, 2015
This presentation discusses a set of "moonshine" relations between superconformal theories at c=12 and subgroups of Conway's largest sporadic group.