FSU Physics Department

03/11/2023

The FSU Physics Open House is back! Don't miss it. Saturday, March 25.

07/06/2021

https://news.fsu.edu/news/2021/06/30/fsu-researchers-receive-nsf-grant-to-investigate-quantum-effects-in-a-potential-hybrid-semiconductor/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_big_story_july_6_2021&utm_term=2021-07-06

A fascinating hybrid organic-inorganic compound has shown remarkable promise over the past few years as a material for light-emitting and solar devices. But while researchers have rushed to fine-tune that material’s properties, it’s possible they missed out on a lot of other unique aspects to th...

04/15/2021

Congratulations to our very own Professor Jorge Piekarewicz!
https://news.fsu.edu/news/2021/04/14/nuclear-astrophysicist-shakespeare-scholar-named-lawton-professors/?fbclid=IwAR0I6KhglKbmycl_eIustzCfiO0rM43oJOlz9UtQkKx6vXH5BtJUY9mWXMk

Two acclaimed Florida State University faculty members, one a scholar of Shakespeare and the other a nuclear astrophysicist, will be given the highest honor that the faculty bestow upon their own – they will each be named a Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor. Professor of Physics Jorge Pieka...

12/21/2020

The conjunction is tonight, Dec 21! You can catch Jupiter and Saturn and their moons all in one place. Head outside after sunset and look west. You can see them by eye, and if you have binoculars/telescopes even better. If you miss it, you can catch the live feed on the West Coast from Mount Wilson Observatory:

For the first time in about 800 years, the planets Jupiter and Saturn will appear to pass very close to each other on the sky. Weather permitting, we will h...

10/19/2020

The Dirac Lectures is an initiative of Florida State University to celebrate the memory of Paul Dirac, late FSU Physics faculty member, Nobel prize winner, and namesake of the Dirac Science Library. These lectures bring outstanding speakers to FSU to present physics topics of particular interest and...

10/14/2020

Today is a great day for our scientific community! It's the day that Room Temperature Superconductivity was achieved with maximum Tc = 287 K (about 15 degrees C) under a pressure of 267 GPa!! 🤩

Room-temperature superconductivity is observed in a photochemically synthesized ternary carbonaceous sulfur hydride system at 15 °C and 267 GPa.

10/13/2020

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three individuals for their seminal work on black holes. One half of the prize went to University of Oxford Scientist Roger Penrose who showed that black hole formation is a “robust prediction” of Einstein’s general theory of relativity; the ...

09/10/2020

One-hundred million light years away from Earth, an unusual supernova is exploding. That exploding star — which is known as “supernova LSQ14fmg” — was the faraway object discovered by a 37-member international research team led by Florida State University Assistant Professor of Physics Eric ...

07/01/2020

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The LHCb collaboration has observed a type of four-quark particle never seen before. The discovery, presented at a recent seminar at CERN and described in a paper posted today on the arXiv preprint server, is likely to be the first of a previously undiscovered class of particles. The finding will he...

03/26/2020

Stay safe, be a fermion!

02/23/2020

01/29/2020

Last night, the first "remote observation" from the FSU Observatory was achieved by our graduate student Melissa Shahbandeh. That is, an observation done entirely through the internet, without anyone present at the observatory. The image obtained is of supernova SN2020ue (bright blue dot near the bottom) and its host galaxy NGC4636 (fuzzy red thing near the top). The explosion of 1 star outshined the entire galaxy! They are roughly 50 million light years away from us. That means this supernova exploded roughly when the dinosaurs went extinct on Earth!