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Promotion of Prof. Vincenzo Savona

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The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the promotion of Prof. Vincenzo Savona to Full Professor of Physics. 

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A new shape to tame fusion's hottest challenge

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Don’t burn the wall! That phrase sums up one of fusion’s most pressing challenges: protecting reactor walls from the extreme heat of plasma. Physicists at EPFL now report a new approach to address this major obstacle. By altering the magnetic shape inside a tokamak, they have discovered a new form of plasma radiation. This breakthrough could provide a far more reliable way to handle the fusion exhaust power. The research has been recently published in Physical Review Letters and featured in APS Physics Magazine.

A sketch of the frequency-estimation protocol © 2025 EPFL Hybrid Quantum Circuits Laboratory

A new level of precision in quantum sensing

Research

A team of researchers at EPFL has achieved a breakthrough by showing how quantum phase transitions, sudden changes in the state of a quantum systems, can be used to dramatically enhance sensing precision. Their findings could pave the way for a new class of ultra-sensitive quantum sensors.

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Inflation and current couplings in the Einstein-Cartan gravity

 23.07.2025   14:0015:15

Speaker: Muzi Hong (IPMU)
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