Accelerator tunnel at the European XFEL. Credit: DESY Fusion by strong lasers: HZDR scientists want to use quantum mechanics to trigger the fusion of atomic…
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An obstacle to generating fusion reactions inside facilities called tokamaks is that producing the current in plasma that helps create confining magnetic fields happens in…
A simulation of electrons at different energies scattering off atomic defects like those in samarium hexabroide. By observing such waves, the researchers measured the electron’s…
Reconstructed 3D photoelectron momentum distribution, together with a sketch of the polarization ellipse and the beam direction. (Adapted from Willenberg et al., Nat. Commun. 10,…
Researchers at Drexel University’s C&J Nyheim Plasma Institute have reported that liquid plasma can be used to produce an energy-dense material called polymeric nitrogen. Credit:…
Tiny holes punched into a high-temperature superconducting material revealed that Cooper pairs, electron duos that enable superconductivity, can also conduct electricity the way metals do.…
A group of Skoltech researchers led by Professor Anatoly Dymarsky studied the emergence of generalized thermal ensembles in quantum systems with additional symmetries. As a…
Figure 1. Creation and propagation of ultra-high energy particles in the Universe. Credit: ©Science China Press Giant neutrino telescope to open window to ultra-high-energy universe.…
An international collaboration led by scientists from the University of Hong Kong, RIKEN (Japan), and CEA (France) have used the RI Beam Factory (RIBF) at…
PRISMA+ and HIM scientists report the latest findings of the CASPEr research program in Science Advances. A team led by Prof Dmitry Budker has continued…
Local distortions in the surface push electrons close to defects. Only the combination of defects and strain can explain the new kind of quantum light.…
A Raman laser shining on the special chip, which traps gases and amplifies the laser signals, allowing for rapid analysis. Credit: NTU Singapore Scientists at…
Nano-Electronic Circuit Vibrates Without Any External Force Scientists at Lancaster University and the University of Oxford have created a nano-electronic circuit which vibrates without any…
Artistic depiction of the system under study. As the size of the particles is reduced, the field enhancement increases. Credit: University of New Mexico Department…
Modified multi-layered bismuth superconductor for higher critical temperatures. Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created a new layered superconducting material with a conducting layer made…
The experimental setup in Kwiat’s lab at the Loomis Laboratory of Physics. Credit: Siv Schwink/University of Illinois Department of Physics Next-generation single-photon source for quantum…
The discovery that free electrons can move asymmetrically provides a deeper understanding of one of the basic processes in physics: the photoelectric effect. It was…
According to quantum physics, empty space is more complicated than one might think. Credit: TU Wien Is it possible to borrow energy from an empty…
Artistic illustration of the delocalization of the massive molecules used in the experiment. Credit: © Yaakov Fein, Universität Wien The quantum superposition principle has been…