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The Faculty of Physics is a large research and teaching center. It consists of The Institutes of Theoretical Physics, Experimental Physics, Geophysics, The Astronomical Observatory and The Department of Mathematical Methods in Physics.
The Faculty is regarded as one of the best in the country, recognized internationally for the high quality of research and education.
News
The crazy dance of falling knots
Can the topology of microobjects influence the way they move in a fluid? Experiments and simulations of Polish and Swiss researchers published in the Physical Review Letters show that the dynamics of elastic chains settling in a fluid depends on the way they are knotted. The settling chains form flat, toroidal structures composed of several intertwined loops, which swirl around each other. The study is important for the proper interpretation of sedimentation and centrifugation experiments of biomolecules. | More
Gluonic strings
Physicists from universities Case Western, Stanford, Stony Brook and Warsaw proposed a theoretical model that suggests the possibility of experimental verification if inside photons exist linear structures in the form of strings of gluons connecting a quark to an antiquark. The photon sources can be arbitrary, high-energy charged particles, such as protons at LHC, schematically sketched in the figure. By emitting a photon, a proton turns to a detector. The photon contains a quark-antiquark pair and between the quark and antiquark there is a string of gluons stretched like a chain formed from its links. It turns out that the string orientation in the photon is correlated with the direction in which the proton moves after emitting the photon. When two protons approach each other as in LHC and when both emit photons while turning, the gluon strings from these photons may collide like "hot sausages". | More
Physics, run by the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw was ranked 51-75 in the Shanghai Ranking of Academic Subjects 2018
In this year's edition of the Shanghai Ranking of Academic Subjects, the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw was ranked among 75 best institutions in the world - we were promoted from position 151-200 to position 51-75. Only one more Polish unit has obtained such a result – the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics at the University of Warsaw.
Quantum non-locality in ultra-cold atomic gases
Non-locality, Einstein’s „spooky action at a distance”, has already been observed between quantum objects separated by more than one kilometer. This achievement is not a surprise – recent years have seen a major advancement in the quest for non-local systems. In their „Physical Review Letters” publication, researchers from the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw present a novel and versatile method for creating and detecting such correlations in a many-body system of ultra-cold atoms | More
Dark inflation opens up a gravitational window onto the first moments after the Big Bang
Dark matter and dark energy may have driven inflation, the exponential expansion of the Universe moments after the Big Bang. A new cosmological model proposed by physicists at the University of Warsaw, which takes dark inflation into account, is the first to outline a precise chronology of the main events during the early history of our Universe. The model makes a spectacular prediction: that it should be possible to detect gravitational waves that were formed just fractions of a second after the creation of spacetime | More
Upcoming events
2018-10-10 (14:15) :: Geometric Seminar
Krótkie wprowadzenie do algebr Hopfa i ich deformacji
2018-10-11 (10:00) :: Optics Seminar
Open-shell molecules – spectroscopic research
2018-10-11 (10:15) :: Nuclear Physics Seminar
Biofizyka radiacyjna: ryzyko nowotworowe dla niskich dawek promieniowania jonizującego
2018-10-11 (10:15) :: "Theory of Duality" (KMMF) Seminar
Riemann $\zeta$ Function, Distribution of Primes, and Riemann Hypothesis (after Riemann & along Edwards
2018-10-11 (11:15) :: Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement and sensitivity in multiparameter quantum metrology
2018-10-11 (12:15) :: Seminar "Theory of Particle Physics and Cosmology"
Phenomenology of the clockwork / linear dilaton solution to the hierarchy problem
2018-10-11 (12:15) :: Photonics Seminar
Obrazowanie video w czasie rzeczywistym za pomocą detektora jedno-pikselowego
2018-10-11 (17:15) :: "Nanostructures Theory and Modelling" Seminar
Hexagonal carbon-boron-nitride layered alloys: ordering phenomena and electronic properties from empirical simulations
2018-10-12 (09:15) :: Solid State Physics Seminar
Molybdenum ditelluride (MoTe2) – a Raman spectroscopic case study
2018-10-12 (09:30) :: Physics of Lithosphere Seminar
Crustal strain calculation and analysis for Poland area using CEGRN Network
2018-10-12 (11:15) :: Theory of Relativity and Gravity Seminar
Cosmological scenarios in Horava-Lifshitz modified theory of gravity
2018-10-12 (14:00) :: Biophysics Seminar
Does EGFP form amyloid structures? – The search for appropriate markers and preliminary results of the study
2018-10-12 (14:15) :: Exact Results in Quantum Theory & Gravity
From the conformal group to symmetries of hypergeometric type equations. Part II
2018-10-15 (16:30) :: J.Pniewski & L.Infeld Colloquium
Nobel Prize in Physics 2018: Towards the shortest and the most intense laser pulses
2018-10-16 (14:30) :: PhD Thesis
Inżynieria modowa stanów światła dla wybranych technologii kwantowych
2018-10-17 (14:15) :: Geometric Seminar
Operators of evolution and energy in Classical Field Theory
2018-10-19 (09:30) :: Physics of Lithosphere Seminar
On the determination, analysis and modelling of temporal variations of gravity/mass functionals from GRACE/GRACE-FO satellite missions
2018-10-25 (14:15) :: PhD Thesis
Ewolucja niejednorodnych rozkładów pola Higgsa
2018-10-29 (16:30) :: J.Pniewski & L.Infeld Colloquium
Quantum Universe: from Subatomic to Galactic Scales
Research Highlights
Standard Model Fermions and Infinite-Dimensional R-Symmetries
K.A. Meissner and H. Nicolai
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121 (2018) 091601
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.091601
K.A. Meissner and H. Nicolai
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121 (2018) 091601
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.091601
Measuring the single-photon temporal-spectral wave function
A. O. C. Davis, V. Thiel, M. Karpiński, B. J. Smith
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 083602 (2018)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.083602
A. O. C. Davis, V. Thiel, M. Karpiński, B. J. Smith
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 083602 (2018)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.083602
The physics of infinity
G.F.R. Ellis, K.A. Meissner and H. Nicolai
Nature Physics 14 (2018) 770
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-018-0238-1
G.F.R. Ellis, K.A. Meissner and H. Nicolai
Nature Physics 14 (2018) 770
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-018-0238-1
Real-time single-pixel video imaging with Fourier domain regularization
Czajkowski K.M., Pastuszczak A., Kotyński R.
Optics Express 2018, vol. 26(16), pp. 20009-20022
DOI: 10.1364/OE.26.020009
Czajkowski K.M., Pastuszczak A., Kotyński R.
Optics Express 2018, vol. 26(16), pp. 20009-20022
DOI: 10.1364/OE.26.020009
Convective environment in pre-monsoon and monsoon conditions over the Indian subcontinent: the impact of surface forcing
Thomas L., Malap N., Grabowski W.W., Prabha T.V.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 2018, vol. 18, pp. 7473–7488
DOI: 10.5194/acp-18-7473-2018
Thomas L., Malap N., Grabowski W.W., Prabha T.V.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 2018, vol. 18, pp. 7473–7488
DOI: 10.5194/acp-18-7473-2018
Upcoming Conferences & Events
stringtheory.pl/2018
Warszawa, October 19-20, 2018
Quantum knot invariants and supersymmetric gauge theories
Santa Barbara, USA, November 5 – December 14, 2018
Job offers
2018-09-24 :: Professor, Photonics / fiber optics
2018-09-24 :: Postdoc, numerical general relativity
2018-09-13 :: PhD student in Team project