Superheavy nuclei occupy the extremely high-Z edge of the Segré chart, and superheavy elements form the limit of the periodic table. The physics and chemistry of superheavy elements are cutting-edge areas of research in nuclear science today.

Neutron-star mergers and core-collapse supernovae are among the most promising sites for the synthesis of heavy elements in the universe. These astrophysical phenomena bring together a rich interplay of general relativity, neutrino physics, nuclear reactions, and magneto-hydrodynamics.

Planar fermions underpin much interesting physics in layered systems and are extensively studied in condensed matter physics; for instance, electronic properties of graphene have long been understood in terms of relativistic fermions centred on Dirac points in momentum space, but the influence of interactions between charge-carrying degrees of freedom is less well-understood and remains an active field of study.

The “Workshop on Many-Body Quantum Magic” will bring together experts from universities, national laboratories and technology companies with expertise in quantum information science and various areas of many-body and high-energy physics, to further the development of quantum complexity – entanglement and nonstabilizerness (magic) – as a quantitative tool in the study of strongly correlated quantum systems, including those relevant to nuclear physics.

Exotic atoms—where electrons are replaced by heavier particles such as muons, pions, kaons, antiprotons or heavier antinuclei—serve as very powerful precision laboratories to investigate the fundamental interactions and symmetries of nature.