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Three new studies predict the measurement-induced phase-transition behavior for quantum systems that have long-range coupling between their qubits. Quantum computers derive their power from the complex entanglement structure that “builds” between their qubits over time. But reading out information from such a computer requires measuring the state of individual qubits, a process that can impact […]

Three years ago this month, Texas A&M University physicist Ralf Rapp was first author on a paper that currently ranks as the top-cited article among all those appearing in the peer-reviewed Elsevier journal Nuclear Physics A during the past five years. The paper, “Extraction of heavy-flavor transport coefficients in QCD matter,” summarizes the results of a […]

Although educational outreach programs sometimes get short shrift in academic circles in terms of prioritizing, funding and staffing, a new Texas A&M University study indicates they are a solid investment with benefits far beyond the institutional bottom line when it comes to physics. Physicists and learning scientists at Texas A&M and the University of Texas […]

Three academic programs in the Texas A&M University College of Science are among the world’s top 50 in the Shanghai Ranking 2021 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS). Statistics paced the College of Science, coming in at 18th worldwide and 15th among U.S. universities within the 200 total global institutions ranked in the discipline. Chemistry […]

Researchers in the Texas A&M University Department of Physics and Astronomy have been awarded a three-year, $1.27 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in support of their world-leading detector research and development work that continues to play a key role in the SuperCDMS dark matter search experiment and other major projects at […]

Sophomore physics major Connor Bowerman ’24 has been selected as one of two 2021-22 Beckman Scholars at Texas A&M University, as announced April 28 by the Texas A&M LAUNCH: Honors Program. The Beckman Scholars Program is a 15-month mentored research experience for exceptional undergraduate students in chemistry, biological sciences or interdisciplinary combinations thereof at selected universities […]

Astronomers from Texas to Argentina recently celebrated a critical milestone in their nearly decade-long project to search for and measure the electromagnetic evidence of gravitational waves throughout the cosmos — “first light” for the Transient Optical Robotic Observatory of the South (TOROS) telescope in northwestern Argentina. On April 10, a team of engineers and astronomers […]

A new data-driven study from Texas A&M University casts serious doubt on the long-held belief that male students perform better than female students in science — specifically, physics. A team of researchers in the Department of Physics and Astronomy analyzed both the midterm exam scores and final grades of more than 10,000 Texas A&M students […]

Fourteen research projects — including two led by faculty from the Texas A&M University College of Science — have been chosen for 2020-2021 funding under The Texas A&M University System National Laboratories Office Collaborative Research Program aimed at increasing engagement between Texas A&M System and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) researchers. Bhaskar Dutta (Credit: Ryan […]

Three years into its quest to reveal the nature of dark energy, the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) led by The University of Texas at Austin and involving Texas A&M University is on track to complete the largest map of the cosmos ever — a three-dimensional map of 2.5 million galaxies that will help astronomers […]

One of the biggest challenges organizations face among the many potential hazards they encounter when sending humans and aerospace systems traveling through the endless reaches of the cosmos is the harsh radiation environment. All it takes is a single rogue particle to wreak havoc on the electronic components of a spacecraft with potentially catastrophic results. […]

Earlier this month, crews at Stanford University’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory celebrated a major milestone in astronomy — the first 3,200-megapixel digital photographs taken with the world’s largest digital camera for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). The collection of images, which are the largest ever captured in a […]

The GMTO Corporation, the organization managing the development of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) on behalf of its US and international founders including Texas A&M University, has received a $17.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to accelerate prototyping and testing of some of the most powerful optical and infrared technologies ever engineered […]

Three Texas A&M University projects are among 64 university research awards announced earlier this summer by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as part of a $132 million high energy physics-focused funding package aimed at advancing knowledge of how the universe works at its most fundamental levels. Texas A&M physicist Rupak Mahapatra received funding for […]

Dr. Darren L. DePoy, professor of physics and astronomy at Texas A&M University, has been named associate dean for research in the Texas A&M College of Science, effective September 1, 2020, announced Dean Valen E. Johnson. A member of the Texas A&M Department of Physics and Astronomy since 2008, DePoy is the inaugural holder of […]

Since the early 1980s, Texas A&M University physicist and quantum cowboy Marlan O. Scully has hosted an annual summer school on quantum physics at his ranch in Casper, Wyoming. Like so many other traditional events, however, this year’s session set to begin next week has been moved online due to the novel coronavirus pandemic — […]

WHAT DID THE 2010 EARLY CAREER AWARD ALLOW YOU TO DO? Dark matter makes up most of the mass of the universe. It is believed to be made up of a yet-to-be-discovered stable, heavy particle that interacts very weakly with ordinary matter. There is an intense search worldwide to directly detect this particle using a […]