A William & Mary physicist has been awarded computing time on a U.S. Department of Energy machine that holds current bragging rights of world’s fastest supercomputer. Konstantinos Orginos, a professor ...

From Fundamental Concepts to Dynamical Mechanisms, by Wolfgang Bietenholz and Uwe-Jens Wiese, Cambridge University Press.

A long-awaited breakthrough has been made in lattice quantum chromodynamics — a means of calculating the effect of the strong force between sub-atomic particles that could, ultimately, unveil new ...

Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the quantum field theory of the strong nuclear interaction and it explains how quarks and gluons are bound together to make more familiar objects such as the proton and ...