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LSU Physicist Designs Tool to Decode Light Particles
In a recent paper published by Optica, a high-impact scientific journal, Omar Magana-Loaiza, an assistant physics professor, details his research on quantum photonic technologies by measuring properties of telecom photon pairs formed by spontaneous parametric down-conversion -- when a single high-energy photon splits into a pair of photons with half the initial energy. This is a key resource for quantum photonic technologies such as quantum metrology and quantum optical information processing.
LSU Research Professors Awarded $800K from U.S. Department of Energy
Interdisciplinary project merges nuclear theory with quantum theoretical and experimental physics.

LSU Physicist Designs Tool to Decode Light Particles
In a recent paper published by Optica, a high-impact scientific journal, Omar Magana-Loaiza, an assistant physics professor, details his research on quantum photonic technologies by measuring properties of telecom photon pairs formed by spontaneous parametric down-conversion -- when a single high-energy photon splits into a pair of photons with half the initial energy. This is a key resource for quantum photonic technologies such as quantum metrology and quantum optical information processing.
LSU Research Professors Awarded $800K from U.S. Department of Energy
Interdisciplinary project merges nuclear theory with quantum theoretical and experimental physics.
Chatzopoulos Named a 2022 LSU Emerging Scholar in STEM Rainmaker
Associate Professor Emmanouil (Manos) Chatzopoulos has been selected as a 2022 recipient of the LSU Rainmaker Award in the Emerging Scholar for Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics category.
SOARS Scholar: Raenessa Walker talks physics hardships and rewarding research
Maryland-born Army brat and Lafayette resident, Raenessa Walker has settled into her new home at LSU as a physics major minoring in math and nuclear science.
LSU Professor Aims to Improve Radiation Therapy to Save Lives
More than half of cancer patients will receive radiation therapy. To improve radiation treatment outcomes for patients, the American Cancer Society has awarded LSU Associate Professor of Physics Rui Zhang a $786,000 grant for his research at LSU and Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center.
New MicroBooNE analysis takes a closer look at the sterile neutrino
The MicroBooNE collaboration at Fermilab has released a new analysis of their neutrino data. The result provides constraints on a model that assumes the existence of a sterile neutrino to explain anomalies in neutrino measurements by other experiments.
LSU Researchers Collaborate to Better Understand the Weak Nuclear Force
Physics journal PRL features LSU nuclear physics research.
LSU Boyd Professor's Legacy Elevates Research and Scholarship
Professor and Mrs. Plummer's gift will provide an endowment for a professorship and superior graduate student scholarship