In a paper published today in Nature, Brown University Assistant Professor of Physics Jia Leo Li and his colleagues find evidence of a Pomeranchuk-type mechanism in which the liquid ground state freezes upon increasing the temperature in twisted bilayer graphene and related systems.

Brown’s Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Professor of Physics, Greg Landsberg and department colleagues have been awarded a 2021 Seed Research Award for a project entitled, “Using Artificial Intelligence to Search for New Physics Underground, on the Ground, and in the Sky.”

Brown Professor of Physics Vesna Mitrović and Brown colleagues have been awarded a 2021 Seed Research Award for a project entitled, “Reverse Engineering the Synaptic Cleft - the Search for Quantum Information Processing in the Brain.”

Brown Professor of Physics Stephon Alexander and other colleagues at Brown have been awarded a 2021 Seed Research Award for a project entitled, “Finding the Physics that Matters in Astrophysical and Astro-Particle Analyses with Interpretable Machine Learning.”

A research team led by Brown University physicist Jia "Leo" Li has found a new way to precisely probe the nature of the superconducting state in magic-angle graphene. New research in the journal Science describes a technique that weakens the repulsive force between electrons in “magic-angle” graphene superconductors, providing physicists with exciting new details about this strange state of matter.