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Researchers from the Department of Physics participate in the Mobile World Conference in the presentation of an application to diagnose malaria.

Candidate Yajuan Duan defended the thesis on March 13, 2024. The thesis, co-supervised by Drs. Jichao Qiao (Northwestern Polythecnic University, Xi'an) and Eloi Pineda (UPC), shows how the structural dynamics and atomic mobility of metallic materials with non-crystalline structure evolves during thermal and mechanical treatments. This study allows improving the pre-processing of these materials to modify and improve their mechanical properties.

A thermal fading of the quantum behavior in the large-momenta and short-distance correlations is predicted for temperatures above the anomaly threshold, by unveiling the connection between excitations, thermodynamics, and correlations in many-body systems. A general analytic expression for the high-momentum tail of the particle momentum distribution, which is valid for an arbitrary interaction strength and temperature and smoothly connects the quantum and classical limits, is proposed.

The award was announced for doctoral theses that have been awarded by the different divisions and specialized groups of the RSEF

The Sant Jordi awards of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans were held on Sant Jordi's Day, April 23, where some representatives of the Physics department were awarded

Physics department researchers contribute to a study on the behavior of schools of fish published as a cover story in the journal PNAS

Researchers from the Department of Physics at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, together with scientists from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Instituto de Cerámica y Vidrio (CSIC), demonstrated an unprecedented reversible modulation of magnetism using low-intensity visible light in artificial multiferroic heterostructures at room temperature. Significant changes in the coercivity and squareness ratio of the hysteresis loops can be light-modulated, encouraging the development of novel low energy-consumption wireless magneto-optical devices

David Pino from the Fluid Dynamics research group of the Department of Physics, has been interviewed on the RNE program Las Mañanas de con Iñigo Alfonso on May 27.

Sarath Radhakrishnan defended his thesis co-supervised by Oriol Lehmkuhl Barba and Daniel Mira Martinez on 10th of June at Campus UPC. Entitled “Non-equilibrium wall modeling in Large Eddy Simulation of high-speed transitional flows“, the thesis presents three novel methodologies for the development of wall models, two of which are based on Machine Learning

Researchers from the Physics Department of the UPC have analyzed historical observations from the 17th century of Jupiter's Great Red Spot in collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)