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SBU’s Qiang Li Collaborated on Discovery That Can Advance Quantum Computing

The team discovered a light symmetry switch that creates the opportunity to carry a dissipationless electron current, which can be useful in wide-scale adoption of quantum computing.

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Research Leads to New Material for Energy-Efficient Devices

A team of international physicists including SBU's Jennifer Cano has created a superlattice, which at a high temperature is a super-efficient insulator conducting current.

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Stony Brook Researchers Explore Moiré Patterns Beyond 2D Materials

Beyond producing interesting and beautiful geometric patterns, materials scientists have explored this geometrical oddity and discovered new physics in the nanoscopic world.

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Peter Stephens Named 2019 Barrett Award Recipient

The International Center for Diffraction Data (ICDD) has named Department of Physics and Astronomy Professor Peter Stephens the 18th recipient of the Barrett Award, a biennial award that recognizes outstanding...

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Professors Chen and Essig Named SBU’s First Simons Investigators

Xiuxiong Chen, Professor of Mathematics, and Rouven Essig, Associate Professor of Physics at Stony Brook University, have been named 2019 Simons Investigators, becoming the first faculty members at the University to...

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BNL Experiment Sheds Light on Proton Spin Puzzle

New data from the STAR experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory‘s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) add detail—and complexity—to an intriguing puzzle that scientists have been seeking to solve: how the...

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History of Universe Could Be Upended by New Findings

StonyBrook-led research suggesting an alternative history of the universe has been published in the latest edition of Physical Review Letters. The research, funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the...

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The PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

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SBU Physicists Among BNL Research Group Studying the Perfect Fluid

Researchers from Stony Brook University are among a group of nuclear physicists analyzing data from the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) — a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science...

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Alum Receives Award from BNL for PhD Thesis Research

Stony Brook University alum Benjamin Bannier, who earned his PhD in Physics last May, has received this year’s RHIC/AGS Thesis Award at the annual RHIC/AGS Users’ Meeting, which was held at Brookhaven National...

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Stony Brook Researchers Explore Moiré Patterns Beyond 2D Materials

Peter Stephens Named 2019 Barrett Award Recipient

Professors Chen and Essig Named SBU’s First Simons Investigators

BNL Experiment Sheds Light on Proton Spin Puzzle

History of Universe Could Be Upended by New Findings

SBU Physicists Among BNL Research Group Studying the Perfect Fluid

Alum Receives Award from BNL for PhD Thesis Research

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