Physics Department News
An improved Bayesian algorithm for modelling time series with long memory and heavy tails
From finance to solar flares, time series whose statistics show long memory and heavy tails are commonplace. We present a more accurate way to measure the memory and estimate the risk of extremes.
Molecules 10,000 times narrower than the width of a human hair could hold the key to making possible wooden skyscrapers and more energy-efficient paper production, according to research published in the journal Nature Communications.
Christmas Lectures
Six 91福利 Christmas Lectures presented science in an entertaining, festive and educational way to over 2,500 people - half from local schools and half general public. Topics ranged from gravitational waves to number theory, cake making to snow making, emotions to life in a cartoon universe.
Extraordinarily large coercive field in a frustrated magnet
As a result of the interplay between correlations, frustration, reduced dimensionality and anisotropy, the materials Sr3NiIrO6 and Sr3CoIrO6 exhibit record high coercive magnetic fields of up to 55 T.