Physics Column

SLAC: Petawatt Laser Facility Addition

In late 2021, a proposal for a 10Hz petawatt laser addition to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) was approved for construction by the Department of Energy…





Calculating the Strong Force: Lattice QCD

As of August 2021, a team of postdoctoral researchers at Columbia University have successfully implemented NVIDIA’s CUDA cores to be used as a graphical computational source for Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics…


The Formulations of Quantum Field Theory

Recent developments in modern physics revolve heavily on the notion of a Quantum Universe, with both matter and forces being described as quantized fundamental particles. These particles have set values…