Ashoke Sen, an acclaimed theoretical physicist hailing from Kolkata, received the prestigious Oskar Klein Medal in 2026. His ...

In quantum field theory, spontaneous particle formation can occur when the potential energy between two elementary particles increases with their separation, as if they were confined by a string. When ...

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Ashoke Sen’s research uses string theory to investigate black-hole entropy and the microscopic states behind it. Here is the ...

Ashoke Sen, a distinguished physicist from ICTS, is honored with the prestigious 2026 Oskar Klein Medal, celebrating his ...

Scientists seeking the secrets of the universe would like to make a model that shows how all of nature's forces and particles fit together. It would be nice to do it with Legos. But perhaps a better ...

Around the end of the last century, there was a first boom in superstring theory, and it was hyped in the public eye as the ...

An international team led by Innsbruck quantum physicist Peter Zoller, together with the US company QuEra Computing, has directly observed a gauge field theory similar to models from particle physics ...

Explore the groundbreaking work of Ashoke Sen, the Indian theoretical physicist who unified five string theories into ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. String theory captured the hearts and minds of many physicists decades ago because of a beautiful simplicity. Zoom in far enough on a ...

String theory seeks to describe fundamental interactions by modelling particles as one-dimensional strings. In efforts to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity, it introduces additional ...

Recent research shows that gravity and quantum information are deeply connected and that the shape of spacetime can be traced back to the way information is stored in quantum fields. Einstein's theory ...