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The potential range of technologies is large, stretching from the largest scales – detecting gravitational waves in space over environmental monitoring to the tiny fluctuations in our own bodies – biomedical sensing for imaging and diagnostics in e.g. magnetic scanners. The result is now published in Nature.

Quantum leap in precision sensing across technologies

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with the University of Konstanz and ETH Zurich, have managed to get vibrations to travel around this membrane, almost without any loss. In fact, so little loss that it is far better than even electronic circuit signal handling. The result is now published in the journal Nature.

QUANTUM OPTICS:

Sound Signals in Computer Chips – Almost Without Signal Loss

Zvi Bern is awarded the Niels Bohr Institute of Honour for his remarkable list of scientific achievements in theoretical physics. His association with the Niels Bohr Institute goes back more than 40 years.

MEDAL OF HONOUR:

Zvi Bern receives the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour, 2024

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have created a novel pathway into the study of the elusive quantum states in superconducting vortices. The existence of these was flouted in the 1960s, but has remained very difficult to verify directly because those states are squeezed into energy scales smaller than one can typically resolve in experiments.

SYNTHETIC SUPERCONDUCTING VORTICES:

A 1960s idea inspires NBI researchers to study hitherto inaccessible quantum states

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of researchers led by a Danish bachelor student has uncovered surprising new details about the fine structure of cosmic dust in nearby galaxies.

THE EARLY UNIVERSE:

Galactic dust reveals hidden patterns in stunning new images from James Webb

Physics at the University of Copenhagen

At the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, we research and teach within a broad spectrum of physics areas: Quantum computers and quantum communication, astrophysics, particle physics, computational physics, solid state physics, climate and geophysics and biophysics.

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With us, you get access to a wide range of advanced equipment in bio- and quantum technology, supercomputers, workshops in both electronics and mechanics as well as special laboratory facilities that are necessary to support the research process. Our astrophysicists have observation time on the largest telescopes, e.g. James Webb Space Telescope.

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Quantum sensing:

Quantum leap in precision sensing across technologies

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have developed a tunable system that paves the way for more…

Quantum Optics:

Sound Signals in Computer Chips – Almost Without Signal Loss

Assistant Professor Xiang Xi and Professor Albert Schliesser at the Niels Bohr Institute have…

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Master defense by Matilde Garcia

On June 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM in room HB1 at the Niels Bohr Institute, Matilde Garcia will defend he…

All you wanted to know about black hole spectroscopy

Black holes vibrate, like stars, or guitar strings. The "ringdown" radiation emitted by oscillating…

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