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The Department of Physics at Stanford University hosted a special colloquium featuring…
The Majorana fermion is a hypothetical fermionic particle which is its own anti-particle. …
For the past 60 years, progress in information technology has been governed by Moore's law,…
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SITP invites applications for postdoctoral fellows in all areas of condensed matter theory, broadly construed. We seek exceptional…
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The John Bardeen Prize was awarded to SITP Professor Sebastian Doniach for “theoretical work that has provided significant…
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Black holes have the remarkable property of irreversibility: if you fall into a black hole you can't get out (classically). This immediately suggested a connection with the other famous irreversibility in physics: the law of increase of entropy.…
Black holes have the remarkable property of irreversibility: if you fall into a black hole you can't get out (classically). This immediately suggested a connection with the other famous irreversibility in physics: the law of increase of entropy.…
The Department of Physics at Stanford University hosted a special colloquium featuring Robert Laughlin, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences.
For the past 60 years, progress in information technology has been governed by Moore's law, which states that the number of transistors on a semiconductor chip doubles every 18 months. However, this remarkable trend is drawing to a close,…
The Majorana fermion is a hypothetical fermionic particle which is its own anti-particle. Intense research efforts focus on its experimental observation as a fundamental particlein high energy physics and as a quasi-particle in…
Sahand Seifnashri from the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton will be giving the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics Monday Colloquium on November 18, 2024.
Gabriel Cuomo from Princeton University will be giving a Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics Seminar on Friday, December 6, 2024.
Professor Steven Kivelson of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics (SITP) introduces the physics of supercondictivity and condensded matter physics.
Superconductivity is perhaps the most spectacular macroscopic quantum phenomenon…
Professor Steven Kivelson of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics (SITP) introduces the physics of supercondictivity and condensded matter physics.
Superconductivity is perhaps the most spectacular macroscopic quantum phenomenon…