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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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The Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics (SITP) is searching for postdoctoral fellows across the full range of theoretical physics.…

Applications are invited for the Gordon and Betty Moore Postdoctoral Scholars in Theory of Quantum Materials at the Stanford Institute…


The Stanford-SLAC Quantum Initiative, Q-FARM, invites applications for the 2023 Bloch Fellowships in Quantum Science and…

“This is just this completely new and exciting space that we’re working in now,” said Vedika Khemani, a condensed matter physicist in…

Sean Hartnoll offers insight on experiments suggesting that exotic superconducting materials share a “strange metal” state characterized…

The John Bardeen Prize was awarded to SITP Professor Sebastian Doniach for “theoretical work that has provided significant insights on…

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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, mostly…

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 condensed matter…

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…