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T-6/CNLS Postdoc Steven Sanche and collaborators (Yen Ting Lin (CCS-3) Chonggang Xu (EES-14), Ethan Romero-Severson (T-6), Nick Hengartner (T-6), and Ruian Ke (T-6), published a now highly cited paper describing the early dynamics of the Coronavirus 2 outbreak in Wuhan, China. The paper ¿High Contagiousness and Rapid Spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2¿ Emerging Infectious Diseases, 26, July 2020, can be found here:(https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0282_article?fbclid=IwAR0W7f4sRR6pnO5q9i5oHjoD4_qgz-5TG5OfMRNStUnf7GCeq7uuJBbYsAM
2019 CNLS Summer student Yuri Muniz, his advisor Wilton Kort-Kamp, and collaborators published a paper on ultrafast generation of entangled two-photon states in plasmonic nanostructures has just been published in Physical Review Letters (https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.033601)
Congratulations to Christopher Hannon, T5/CNLS GRA, who recently won the best paper award at ACM PADS (Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation) conference.
Congratulations Enrique Batista, CNLS Deputy Director, and Ping Yang, T-1, on being recognized and awarded LANL Distinguished Postdoc Mentors Awards. This award recognizes the positive impact and contributions that a mentor makes during a postdoc's appointment and who demonstrate a level of mentoring beyond expectations. Congratulations Enrique and Ping!
T-4/CNLS Postdoc Fuxiang Li co-published a paper with CNLS alumni Nikolai Sinitsyn and Prof. Vladimir Y Chernyak from Wayne State University in Physical Review Letters. View 'Quantum Annealing and Thermalization: Insights from Integrability' here.
Congratulations to Angel E. Garcia, the Director of CNLS, on being named a 2018 Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow.
Congratulations to Sergei Tretiak, a member of the CNLS Executive Committee, on being named a 2018 Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow.
Jennifer Hollingsworth, a member fo the CNLS Executive Committee, has been named a 2018 Fellow by the American Physics Society (APS).
Wilton Kort-Kamp, former CNLS postdoc and current LANL T-4 staff, was awarded the Leon Heller Postdoctoral Publication Prize in Theoretical Physics.
Sydney Andrews Receives DOE Graduate Fellowship, Los Alamos Daily Post article
Christopher Neale's slides titled 'How to Give an Effective Research Presentation' are available here.
CNLS postdoc, Wilton Kort-Kamp recently published "Casimir force phase transitions in the graphene family" in Nature Communications.
CNLS Postdoc Mentor and Collaborator, Carleton Coffrin, A-1, was recently featured in the news for his open-source software, Severe Contingency Solver, that helps government agencies better plan for power outages caused by extreme events.
T-4/CNLS Postdoc Fuxiang Li co-published a paper with CNLS alumni Nikolai Sinitsyn in Physical Review Letters. View 'Quantum Effects in Higher-Order Correlators of a Quantum-Dot Spin Qubit' here.
Former CNLS Postdoc Sebastian Deffner was announced as the 2016 winner of the New Journal of Physics Early Career Award which emphasizes recognition of early career brilliance and contributions to the field. Congratulations Sebastian!

T-4/CNLS Postdoc Wilton Kort-Kamp has been awarded the Brazilian CAPES 2016 PhD Thesis Award in Physics and Astronomy for the best PhD thesis. His PhD thesis is titled "Novel approaches to tailor and tune light-matter interactions at the nanoscale." This prize is awarded by the Brazilian Government though its CAPES program, and it the highest award in Brazil for PhD thesis. He will receive his prize by the Brazilian president later this year. Congratulations Wilton!
Graduate Student Mowen Lu won the best poster award at the DTRA Basic Research Technical Review on July 20, 2016 in Washington DC.
Malcolm G Boshier, a member of CNLS Executive Committeee, has been elected Secretary/Treasurer of the APS Topical Group on Precision Measurements and Fundamental Constants.
CNLS postdoc, Ludmil B. Alexandrov recently won a 2015 Science & SciLifeLab Prize for his paper "Understanding the origins of human cancer" in Science.
T-4/CNLS postdoc Sebastian Deffner was recently hired by the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland Department of Physics at the University of Maryland" We wish Sebastian the best of luck in his future endeavors!
CNLS postdoc, Anatoly Zlotnik recently published "Phase-selective entrainment of nonlinear oscillator ensembles" in Nature Communications.
T-4/CNLS Postdoc Fuxiang Li co-published a paper with CNLS alumni Nikolai Sinitsyn in Physical Review Letters. View 'Universality in Higher Order Spin Noise Spectroscopy' here.
CNLS Executive Committee member Jennifer Hollingsworth has been recognized as one of six women statewide to receive a Women in Technology Award from the New Mexico Technology Council.
CNLS postdoc, Cesar A. Lopez, and CNLS Affiliates Gnana Gnanakaran and Bette T. Korber recently published "Broadly targeted CD8+ T cell responses restricted by major histocompatibility complex E" in Science.
T-4/CNLS Postdoc Sebastian Deffner recently published the paper 'Shortcuts to adiabaticity: suppression of pair production in driven Dirac dynamics' in the New Journal of Physics.

Exorcising Maxwells Demon

Quantum stochastic thermodynamic on harmonic networks

Autonomous Maxwell's demon displays chilling power

CNLS Affiliates Ido Regev, Charles Reichhardt, and Turab Lookman recently published "Reversibility and Critically in Amorphous Solids" in Nature Communications.
CNLS Affiliate and former postdoc, Cristiano Nisoli, recently published "Emergent reduced dimensionality by vertex frustration in artificial spin ice" in Nature Physics.
T-1/CNLS Postdoc Lyudmyla Adamska recently published two papers. 'Singlet and triplet excitons and charge polarons in cycloparaphenylenes: a density functional theory study' can be found in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, and 'Self-Trapping of Charge Carriers in Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes: Structural Analysis' can be found in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letter.
T-4/CNLS Postdoc Fuxiang Li co-published a paper with CNLS alumni Nikolai Sinitsyn in Nature Physics. View 'Three-stage decoherence dynamics of an electron spin qubit in an optically active quantum dot' here.
T-4/CNLS Postdoc Ivan Christov co-authored an entry in the Royal Society Publishing Blog for their "350 years of the Philosophical Transactions" called "Maxwell's 'other' equations".
T-4/CNLS postdoc Sebastian Deffner has published "Environment-Assisted Speed-up of the Field Evolution in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics" in Physics Review Letters, published June 11, 2015.
EES-16/CNLS postdoc Jeffrey Hyman has received the InterPore Fraunhofer Award for Young Researchers for 2015.
T-4/CNLS postdoc Sebastian Deffner has published "Ten years of Nature Physics: From spooky foundations" in Nature Physics, published April 30, 2015.
T-4/CNLS postdoc Alex White has been awarded with the 2015 APS Division of Chemical Physics Doctoral Thesis Award for the best doctoral dissertation in any area of chemical physics.
CNLS Affiliate Cristian Batista has been named a fellow of the American Physical Society in the Division of Condensed Matter Physics for theoretical contributions to the understanding of frustrated magnetic systems, topological phases, and electronic ferroelectricity.
CNLS Affiliate Malcolm Boshier has been named a fellow of the American Physical Society in the Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics for high precision laser spectroscopy of hydrogen and muonium, and for advancing the state of the art in cold atom manipulation.
CNLS Affiliate Avadh Saxena has been named a fellow of the Americal Physical Society in the Division of Materials Physics forfoundational contributions to phase transitions in functional materials and nonlinear excitations in low-dimensional electronic materials.
CNLS Affiliate Sergei Tretiak has been named a fellow of the American Physical Society in the Division of Chemical Physics for seminal contributions to the theoretical chemistry of excited state dynamics in nanoscale materials and nonlinear optical response of molecular systems.
CNLS Postdoc Adolfo del Campo has won the Leon Heller Postdoc Publication Award for his article, "Shortcuts to Adiabaticity by Counteradiabatic Driving" which appeared in Physical Review Letters.
Adolfo del Campo, together with Tom W. B. Kibble and Wojciech H. Zurek, has published "Causality and non-equilibrium second-order phase transitions in inhomogeneous systems" in J. Phys. Condensed Matter: within the special issue "Condensed matter analogues of cosmology" on September 11th.
On September 3rd, Adolfo del Campo has published "Shortcuts to Adiabaticity by Counterdiabatic Driving" in Physical Review Letters".
Adolfo del Campo, in collaboration with Wojciech H. Zurek (Theoretical Division), the theory group led by Martin B. Plenio at the University of Ulm and the experimental group led by Tanja E. Mehlstaubler at PTB, has published "Topological Defect Formation and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Ion Coulomb Crystals” in Nature Communications on August 7th 2013.
Brian Munsky, with Gregor Neuert, Rui Zhen Tan, Leonid Teytelman, Mustafa Khammash, and Alexander van Oudenaarden, has published "Systematic Identification of Signal Activated Stochastic Gene Regulation" on February 1st in the journal Science.
Adolfo del Campo, together with I. L. Egusquiza, M. B. Plenio, and S. F. Huelga, has published "Quantum Speed Limits in Open System Dynamics" on February 1st in Physical Review Letters. These "speed limits" apply to any quantum process and have a wide variety of applications, including the determination of precision limits for quantum metrology in the presence of dephasing noise.
Misha Chertkov (T-4), with Florian Dorfler (CNLS/UCSB) and Francesco Bullo, has published "Synchronization in Complex Oscillator Networks and Smart Grids" in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on January 13, 2013.
Jonathan Graham (T-3/CNLS), together with Anna Pietarila, has published "Instrumental and Observational Artifacts in Quiet Sun Magnetic Flux Cancellation Functions" in the Online First edition of Solar Physics on October 25th.
Zhengping Ji, together with Steven Brumby, R. Chartrand, A. Galbraith, N. Hengartner, G. Kenyon, D. Moody, D. Paiton, J. Theiler, M. Warran and B. Wohlberg, won Second Place at the recent LDRD Day celebration for their poster "Human-like Computer Vision Using Deep, Sparse Models". "The winners of this year's best-poster competition represent the innovative nature of LDRD projects, as well as the broad range of national security challenges LDRD researchers are working hard to solve with cutting-edge science and engineering," said Bill Priedhorsky, LDRD program director.
Adolfo del Campo (T-4/CNLS), together with Marek M. Rams and Wojciech H. Zurek, has published "Assisted Finite-Rate Adiabatic Passage Across a Quantum Critical Point: Exact Solution for the Quantum Ising Model" on September 13th in Physical Review Letters.
Adolfo del Campo (T-4/CNLS), together with Malcolm G. Boshier (P-Division), has published "Shortcuts to adiabaticity in a time-dependent box" on September 11th in Scientific Reports.
Claire White (LANSCE-LC/CNLS) has received the first 2012 NSSA Prize for Outstanding Student Research to recognize her outstanding research pioneering a new methodology to elucidate accurate structural representations of complex materials by combining neutron diffraction and computational chemistry.
Armin Rahmani (T-4/CNLS) has published "General Method for Calculating the Universal Conductance of Strongly Correlated Junctions of Multiple Quantum Wires" in the January 20th issue of Physics Review B.

In the World News:

The Los Alamos-IBM supercomputing project 'Roadrunner' recently broke the petaflop barrier in computing speed. This landmark feat, which was previously predicted to be impossible for current super computer architecture has been widely reported by news agencies such as the New York Times and CNN. This achievement was hailed as a sign that the United States is regaining the lead in computer science. The code that was used to demonstrate the highest speed to date models the visual cortex and grew out of collaborations that were started at the CNLS conference Grand Challenges in Neural Computation.
CNLS is pleased to announce a new Public Lecture Series in Quantitative Biology. The quantitative biology (q-bio) lecture series is dedicated to dissemination of biological knowledge gained through quantitative experimentation and computational, mathematical, and/or statistical analyses of data. The lectures will be presented by internationally-renowned experts and aimed at the general public. They are usually on the third Tuesday of each month.
CNLS Executive Committee Member, Andy Shreve, wins LANL Fellows Prize for Leadership.
Misha Chertkov (T-13, CNLS Executive Committee) and Allon Percus (CCS-3) have been awarded an NSF grant "Harnessing Statistical Physics for Computing and Communication", a 3-year collaborative project involving the New Mexico Consortium, the Cornell University CS department (PI, Bart Selman) and the MIT EECS department (PI, Devavrat Shah). CNLS has contributed significantly to building this research capability through its focus on Statistical Physics of Networks, Information and Complex Systems, and it will participate in the project by hosting students and postdocs jointly with the collaborating institutions.
On August 21, Science Express published a paper, Quantum Communication with Zero-Capacity Channels, by Graeme Smith from the IBM Watson Research Center and Jon Yard, CNLS-CCS3 postdoc, which obtained the surprising quantum information result that the combination of zero capacity quantum channels can yield an information channel of finite capacity. (Press Release)
Cory Hauck (CNLS, CCS-2) has been invited to serve as a Fellow at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) during its Spring 2009 Program on Quantum and Kinetic Transport: Analysis, Computations, and New Applications (http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/kt2009/). Located on the UCLA campus, IPAM (http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/) is an NSF national research institute whose principal objective is to encourage cross-fertilization between pure and applied mathematics and other scientific disciplines.
Various videos by CNLS Postdoc Mahesh Bandi:
Alan Perelson, T-10 Senior Fellow and CNLS affiliate, is featured in the Santa Fe New Mexican. The article discusses recent research into the progression of the HIV virus. This news article follows publication of this research late last year in PNAS.
Robert Kraichnan, a long-time resident of White Rock and Santa Fe and a LANL consultant and CNLS affiliate throughout the 80's and 90's, died February 26, 2008 after a long illness. Bob was a frequent collaborator at CNLS, was an invited speaker in numerous CNLS workshops and conferences, and wrote many important and influential papers on fluid turbulence with Shiyi Chen and Gary Doolen, both former CNLS Deputy Directors.

Since 2003, Bob was Homewood Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Johns-Hopkins University. A detailed record of his scientific accomplishments is available online. A notice of his death appeared recently in the New York Times. Bob's intellect and good cheer will be sorely missed by all who knew him.
Basil Nicolaenko, one of the co-founders of the Center for Nonlinear Studies, passed away in September.
The Center for Nonlinear Studies marks the passing of two influential leaders of nonlinear science who contributed greatly to the success of the CNLS: Martin Kruskal and Alwyn Scott.
Executive Committee member Eli Ben-Naim was recently featured in a "60 seconds with..." interview at IOP Publishing's web site. Click here to read the interview.