Gauge Invariance

Exact correspondences between seemingly different concepts play an important role in all fields of physics. An example is the fluctuation-d...

Another paper on transmon qubits is out. In this paper: We present a theoretical description for circuits consisting of weak anharmonic...

Our research institute is named after a 2007 Nobel Laureate: Prof. Peter Grünberg. Sadly I heard that Peter Grünberg passed away today....

American Physics Society organises another March Meeting for a week this year again. The venue will be at Los Angeles. There is aninvited s...

The theory groups at the Institute for Quantum Information of the Jülich-Aachen Reasearch Alliance (JARA) are looking for highly motivated c...

In the everyday world, the amount of disorder, or entropy, in an isolated system can only increase over time. This relation is described b...

Job type: PhD Application deadline: Monday, June 5, 2017 Employer: Peter Gruenberg Institute (PGI-2) Another PhD position is available ...

I am back from a loooong long trip into several cities in the US and Canada, where I gave a series of talks about my research. In my tri...

If you happen to be near Aachen this week, come to hear news about entropy. ( this link )  ********************************************...

A fully-funded postdoc/PhD student position is available to work at Peter Gruenberg Institute (PGI-2) in Forschungszentrum Juelich, near Aa...

December this year is almost the 10th anniversary of finding new degeneracy in area spectrum and finding heir application. ( 1 , 2 ) ...

Did you know that you have been calculating entropy incorrectly during your whole life!   This is at least what I claim to be true in a ...

Today is a day for cheering. After many years gravitational waves have been finally reported to have been detected. In two separate dete...

I'll be chairing a session in the upcoming American Physics Society March Meeting 2016 in Baltimore, USA. The session is focused on Q...

My father passed away yesterday 22 Dec 2015 after a rather short period of age-related illness. He was 84. My father, Abdolali, was a colle...

Yuli Nazarov: [I] remember a talk given by a high-class theorist with a taste for abstract models, young experimentalists being his prim...

I'll be organizing a focus session for CQI on Quantum Information and Thermodynamics in the APS March meeting 2016 in Baltimore. The sub...

Jacob Bekenstein passed away at age 68.  I know Jacob mostly from reading his papers on gravity and information theory, but I also have ha...

Stimulated quantum phase slips from weak electromagnetic radiations in superconducting nanowires, arxiv.org:1507.02725 Amir Jafari-Salim,...

In this paper, we present experiments in which we probe the dynamics of a two-state fluctuator (TSF) coupled to a superconducting flux qubit...