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News & Research Highlights
 David Miller: How light could transform computing
David Miller, by courtesy Professor of Applied Physics and an expert in photonics, explains the remarkable potential of using light instead of electricity in computation...
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 Benjamin Good wins a Sloan Fellowship
Congratulations to Prof. Benjamin Good, recepient of a 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship in the field of Computational & Evolutionary Molecular Biology.
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 Stanford physicists create a quantum Archimedes' screw in a 1D gas of dysprosium
By adding some magnetic flair to an exotic quantum experiment, Benjamin Lev's group produced an ultra-stable 1D quantum gas with never-before-seen “scar” states, a...
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 Kam Moler is appointed to the Marvin Chodorow Professorship
The AP department congratulates Kam Moler on her appointment to the Marvin Chodorow Professorship.
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 Vedika Khemani wins McMillan Award and APS Valley Prize for work on time crystals
VEDIKA KHEMANI, an assistant professor of physics (courtesy appointment in Applied Physics), was recognized twice last month for “seminal theoretical work” on novel non-...
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 Stanford physicist’s quest for the perfect keys to unlock the mysteries of superconductivity
For decades Z-X Shen has ridden a wave of curiosity about the strange behavior of electrons that can levitate magnets.
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