He especially enjoys research focused on the study of
matter at extreme conditions of high pressure, high temperature, and high radiation flux.
The study of
matter at extreme conditions represents a forefront area of research activity across the sciences, including physics, chemistry, materials science and even biology.
Tilo Döppner is an experimental physicist who has significantly contributed to the exploration of HED plasmas and
matters at extreme conditions, with relevance to fundamental science, inertial confinement fusion (ICF) and national security applications.
Not exact matches
Superinsulation thus joins the ranks of other bizarre phases of
matter that exist under
extreme conditions, like superconductivity and Bose - Einstein Condensate (a
condition in which,
at almost absolute zero, large groups of atoms blur together into a single quantum state).
Among the many discoveries on
matter at high pressure that garnered him the Nobel Prize in 1946, scientist Percy Bridgman discovered five different crystalline forms of water ice, ushering in more than 100 years of research into how ice behaves under
extreme conditions.
The QGP is an
extreme state of
matter comprising deconfined quarks and gluons (partons) that exists only
at temperatures above approximately 160 MeV, a
condition met for last time a few microseconds after the Big Bang, or
at baryon densities five times higher than normal nuclear densities, speculated to exist inside the core of neutron stars.
For example, geophysicists studying the intense density and pressure
at the core of the Earth will be able to use the NIF lasers to create laboratory
conditions that produce similar
extreme states of
matter.
Feb. 5, 2018 - Among the many discoveries on
matter at high pressure that garnered him the Nobel Prize in 1946, scientist Percy Bridgman discovered five different crystalline forms of water ice, ushering in more than 100 years of research into how ice behaves under
extreme conditions.
Physicists look
at neutron stars as a way of showing how
matter acts under these
extreme conditions.
As a physicist
at Sandia, he studies what happens to
matter and radiation under
extreme conditions.