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UrduStudy by researchers at the University of Campinas published in Physical Review Letters discusses both light dispersion by vibrations inside the device and light dissipation to the exterior, an aspect rarely studied hitherto
Tag: ATOMIC/MOLECULAR/PARTICLE PHYSICS
Cockcroft Institute awarded more than £11 million to boost accelerator research
The Cockcroft Institute (CI), a partnership between the Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester and Strathclyde, and the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC), has been awarded more than £11 million for R&D into accelerator science and technology. The funding, awarded…
Boston College physicist Brian Zhou receives NSF CAREER Award
Funding will support spatially imaging the flow of photocurrents inside quantum materials
New skills of Graphene: Tunable lattice vibrations
Without electronics and photonics, there would be no computers, smartphones, sensors, or information and communication technologies. In the coming years, the new field of phononics may further expand these options. That field is concerned with understanding and controlling lattice vibrations…
Virtually unlimited solar cell experiments
Researchers at Osaka University use machine learning to design and virtually test molecules for organic solar cells, which can lead to higher efficiency functional materials for renewable energy applications
Bottling the world’s coldest plasma
Laser-cooled plasma-in-a-bottle could answer questions about the sun, fusion power
Story tips: Quantum building blocks, high-pressure diamonds, wildfire ecology and more
Materials – Quantum building blocks Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists demonstrated that an electron microscope can be used to selectively remove carbon atoms from graphene’s atomically thin lattice and stitch transition-metal dopant atoms in their place. This method could open…
Through the looking glass: Artificial ‘molecules’ open door to ultrafast polaritonic devices
Researchers from Skoltech and the University of Cambridge have shown that polaritons, the quirky particles that may end up running the quantum supercomputers of the future, can form structures behaving like molecules – and these “artificial molecules” can potentially be…
Meteorites remember conditions of stellar explosions
Radioactivity in meteorites sheds light on origin of heaviest elements in our solar system
High- performance 3D printer for titanium structures and In situ synthesis of alloys
3D printer for high-speed printing of titanium structures
Considering disorder and cooperative effects in photon escape rates from atomic gases
Investigating more complex models of photon escape rates from cold atomic gases could help researchers learn more about light-matter interactions
Using neutron scattering to better understand milk composition
By using a more complex model for neutron scattering data, researchers can better understand the composition of materials such as milk
New study highlights importance of context to physical theories
A Swansea University scientist’s research into the geometrical characteristics of a physical theories is highlighted in a new paper.
On the line: Watching nanoparticles get in shape
New method could advance next-generation applications in medicine, cosmetics, and petroleum recovery
New insights into the mechanism of nuclear fission
Publication in ‘Nature’ under participation of TU Darmstadt
Scientists probe electronic angular momentum to a chemical reaction for the first time
A chemical reaction can be understood in detail at the quantum state-resolved level, through a combined study of molecular crossed beam experiments and theoretical quantum molecular reaction dynamics simulations. At a single collision condition, the molecular crossed beam apparatus is…
Nature’s funhouse mirror: understanding asymmetry in the proton
Asymmetry in the proton confounds physicists, but a new discovery may bring back old theories to explain it. Symmetry — displayed in areas ranging from mathematics and art, to living organisms and galaxies — is an important underlying structure in…
The invisible smallest particles matter for the air we breathe
Researchers of the University of Helsinki have resolved for the first time, how the ultrafine particles of atmosphere effect on the climate and health. Atmospheric air pollution kills more than 10,000 people every day. The biggest threat to human health…
Scientists propose a new heavy particle similar to the Higgs boson
An international team of scientists proposes a new heavy particle with properties similar to those of the Higgs boson
High energy radiotherapy could ‘paint’ tumours to avoid harming healthy tissue
A radiotherapy technique which ‘paints’ tumours by targeting them precisely, and avoiding healthy tissue, has been devised in research led by the University of Strathclyde. Researchers used a magnetic lens to focus a Very High Electron Energy (VHEE) beam to…
Ghost particle from shredded star reveals cosmic particle accelerator
From a black hole to the South Pole: Scientists identify first neutrino from a tidal disruption event
Silver and gold nanowires open the way to better electrochromic devices
A team from INRS developed a new approach for foldable and solid devices
Scientists link star-shredding event to origins of universe’s highest-energy particles
A team of scientists has detected the presence of a high-energy neutrino–a particularly elusive particle–in the wake of a star’s destruction as it is consumed by a black hole. This discovery, reported in the journal Nature Astronomy , sheds new…
Ultrafast electron dynamics in space and time
“For decades, chemistry has been governed by two ambitions goals,” says Professor Stefan Tautz, head of the Quantum Nanoscience subinstitute at Forschungszentrum Jülich. “One of these is understanding chemical reactions directly from the spatial distribution of electrons in molecules, while…
Investigating the wave properties of matter with vibrating molecules
Physics: Publication in Nature Physics
Selective concentration of cationic species
Sample pretreatment processes such as concentration or classification are essential to finding trace substances present in a fluid. In scientific communities recently, prolific research is being conducted on sample pretreatment techniques utilizing electrokinetics.1 However, due to the lack of commercial…
LHC/ATLAS: A unique observation of particle pair creation in photon-photon collisions
Cracow, 18 February 2021 Creation of matter in an interaction of two photons belongs to a class of very rare phenomena. From the data of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, collected with the new AFP proton detectors at the…
Quantum computer based on Rydberg atoms on the way to prototype
Scientists at the University of Stuttgart develop a quantum computer demonstrator with several hundred qubits based on Rydberg atoms
Quantum collaboration gives new gravity to the mysteries of the universe
Scientists have used cutting-edge research in quantum computation and quantum technology to pioneer a radical new approach to determining how our Universe works at its most fundamental level.
Quantum collaboration gives new gravity to the mysteries of the universe
Scientists have used cutting-edge research in quantum computation and quantum technology to pioneer a radical new approach to determining how our Universe works at its most fundamental level. An international team of experts, led by the University of Nottingham, have…
More sustainable recycling of plastics
Chemists at the University of Konstanz have developed a method for more sustainable recycling of polyethylene-like plastics
Sloshing quantum fluids of light and matter to probe superfluidity
‘Sloshing’ of a quantum fluid comprised of light and matter reveals superfluid properties
Experimental demonstration of measurement-dependent realities possible, researcher says
Shoe shops sell a variety of shoe sizes to accommodate a variety of foot sizes — but what if both the shoe and foot size depended on how it was measured? Recent developments in quantum theory suggest that the available…
A performance leap for Graphene modulators in next generation datacom and telecom
Over the past years, global data traffic has experienced a boom, with over 12.5 billion connected devices all over the world. The current world-wide deployment of the 5G telecommunications standard is triggering the need for smaller devices with enhanced performances,…
Experimental tests of relativistic chemistry will update the periodic table
Researchers from Osaka University are better understanding the chemistry of superheavy elements, which will help explain important discrepancies in the periodic table and may eventually lead to the development of new materials
UD physicist named Sloan Research Fellow
Researcher examining origins of cosmic rays awarded prestigious fellowship
Moiré patterns facilitate discovery of novel insulating phases
UC Riverside-led study observed unexpected insulating phases by placing electrons on stacked monolayers of 2D semiconductors
Light used to detect quantum information stored in 100,000 nuclear quantum bits
Researchers have found a way to use light and a single electron to communicate with a cloud of quantum bits and sense their behaviour, making it possible to detect a single quantum bit in a dense cloud. The researchers, from…
£2M award for quantum technologies to solve the mysteries of the Universe
Our understanding of the Universe could be transformed thanks to major UK investment in quantum technologies including £2M for Lancaster University. UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is supporting two collaborative projects involving Lancaster to investigate key questions such as the…
A new perceptually-consistent method for MSI visualization
Skoltech scientists have proposed a Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MSI) method leveraging the unique features of human vision. The research was published in the journal Analytical Chemistry . High-resolution mass spectrometry is an analytical technique that accurately measures the mass-to-charge ratio…
A new quantum switch for electronics
A Russian physicist and his international colleagues studied a quantum point contact (QCP) between two conductors with external oscillating fields applied to the contact. They found that, for some types of contacts, an increase in the oscillation frequency above a…
Swirlonic super particles baffle physicists
A novel state of matter has been discovered by physicists at the University of Leicester
HL-LHC Accelerator Upgrade Project receives approval to move full-speed-ahead from DOE
The U.S. Department of Energy has formally approved the start of execution of the High-Luminosity LHC Accelerator Upgrade Project being carried out at eight U.S. institutions. The approval, known as Critical Decision 3, or CD-3, is the endorsement by DOE…
Scientists develop new, faster method for seeking out dark matter
For nearly a century, scientists have worked to unravel the mystery of dark matter–an elusive substance that spreads through the universe and likely makes up much of its mass, but has so far proven impossible to detect in experiments. Now,…
Quantum causal loops
Causal reasoning is ubiquitous – from physics to medicine, economics and social sciences, as well as in everyday life. Whenever we press the button, the bell rings, and we think that the pressing of the button causes the bell to…
Advanced simulations reveal how air conditioning spreads COVID-19 aerosols
More preventive measures, such as shielding underneath tables and improving air conditioner filtration efficiency, could reduce exposure to COVID-19 within air-conditioned restaurants
Porous materials unfavorable for coronavirus survival
Why coronavirus survives for less time on porous materials and the implications for the safety of different materials in schools, workplaces, and public spaces
UK scientists build core components of global neutrino experiment
Engineers and technicians in the UK have started production of key piece of equipment for a major international science experiment. The UK government has invested $89 million ( £65 million) in the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment , a particle…
NTUsg researchers develop flexible piezoelectric crystal
A team of researchers led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed a new material, that when electricity is applied to it, can flex and bend forty times more than its competitors, opening the way to better micro…
Scholar to discuss the applications of quantum technology
Virtual talk will focus on leveraging quantum information to revolutionize computing