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Trapped ions excited with a laser beam can be used to create entangled qubits in quantum information systems, but addressing several stationary pairs of ions…
A visualization of the zero-energy electronic states – also known as a “Fermi surface” – from the kagome material studied by MIT’s Riccardo Comin and…
Large High Altitude Air-shower Observatory (LHAASO) illustration. Credit: LHAASO Researchers from the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences examined the…
Schematic of a laser interferometer used to observe gravitational waves. If the quantum uncertainty of the radiation pressure of the light is the dominant dynamic…
Figure 1: High-harmonic generation creates short-wavelength light from a beam of powerful laser light with a longer wavelength. Credit: © 2022 RIKEN Interdisciplinary Theoretical and…
A research team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has successfully tested the irradiation of tumors with laser protons for the first time. Credit: HZDR…
The Fermi surface on the left shows the arrangement of electrons in a copper-oxide high temperature superconductor before the “critical point.” After the critical point,…
Breakthrough using common material could pave way for new quantum technologies. Quantum science holds promise for many technological applications, such as building hacker-proof communication networks…
Researchers changed the atomic structure of a thermoelectric material in a unique way with pulses of intense laser light – a method with potential to…
A new glasses-free 3D light field display system with a significantly extended viewing distance represents an important step toward compact, realistic-looking 3D displays that could…
University of Houston Researchers Exploring the Bounds of Room-Temperature Superconductivity. In the simplest terms, superconductivity between two or more objects means zero wasted electricity. It…
‘Ghost particles’ research could bolster physics, nuclear nonproliferation. A nuclear reactor at an Illinois energy plant is helping University of ChicagoFounded in 1890, the University…
How can Einstein’s theory of gravity be unified with quantum mechanics? This is a challenge that could give us deep insights into phenomena such as…
Research conducted at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) describes a validation exercise for simple models used to understand hot-spot conditions reached in an implosion, which…
Artist’s animation of burning plasma inside a fusion reactor. Nature paper chronicles how researchers achieved burning plasmaPlasma is one of the four fundamental states of…
A superamphiphobic surface coating on a glass can reduce or even prevent foam formation without addition of additives — important, for example, in industrial filling…
Graphical representation of the connection between material (= two twisted graphene layers) with topological properties, a topological surface in the mathematical sense (= mobius strip)…
Superconductivity in kagome state caused by triple-Q CDW order. Credit: Image by NIE Linpeng’s team In a recent article published in Nature, a research team…
Scattered waves from a nanoscale object encode the solution of a complex mathematical problem when interrogated by tailored input signals. Credit: Heedong Goh The work…