Scientists Surprised by Lack of Damage After Secondary Impacts
Study on damage caused by high-velocity impacts provides answers about how materials exposed to secondary shocks recompact. When a material is subjected to an extreme…
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Light From Inside the Tunnel: Advance in Steering and Monitoring the Light-Driven Motion of Electrons
Steering and monitoring the light-driven motion of electrons inside matter on the time-scale of a single optical cycle is a key challenge in ultrafast light…
Major Breakthrough for Physics and Engineering: Preserving Integrity of Sound Waves
The experiment is the first to demonstrate strong topological order for sound stemming from time modulations, paving the way for improvements in ultrasound imaging,…
“Light Picoscope” – Laser Takes Pictures of Electrons in Crystals
The researchers used powerful laser flashes to irradiate thin, films of crystalline materials. These laser pulses drove crystal electrons into a fast wiggling motion. As…
MIT “Light Squeezer” Reduces Quantum Noise in Lasers, Enhances Quantum Computing and Gravitational-Wave Detection
Portable System Boosts Laser Precision, at Room Temperature Physicists at MIT have designed a quantum “light squeezer” that reduces quantum noise in an incoming laser…
Strong New Evidence for a Controversial Decades-Old Theory That Explains the Odd Behaviors of Water
Study detects the critical point between 2 liquid forms of water. Water, so ordinary and so essential to life, acts in ways that are quite…
Ground-Breaking Research Shows That Laser Spectral Linewidth Is Classical-Physics Phenomenon
New ground-breaking research from the University of Surrey could change the way scientists understand and describe lasers – establishing a new relationship between classical and…
How Iron Transforms Under Pressure: Planetary Cores and More Resilient Materials
New research could offer insights into the formation of planets like Earth and inform the design of more resilient materials. Iron is the most abundant…
New Physical Paradox Discovered by Russian Scientists: “Ballistic Resonance”
Researchers from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) discovered and theoretically explained a new physical effect: amplitude of mechanical vibrations can grow without…
Tabletop Quantum Experiment – 4000x Smaller Than Current Devices – Could Detect Gravitational Waves
Tiny diamond crystals could be used as an incredibly sensitive and small gravitational detector capable of measuring gravitational waves, suggests new UCL-led research. Predicted by…
Underground CUPID-Mo Experiment in Search for Theorized ‘Neutrinoless’ Particle Process
Berkeley Lab researchers are part of an international team that reports a high-sensitivity measurement by underground CUPID-Mo experiment. Nuclear physicists affiliated with the U.S. Department…
Rock ’n’ Control: Physicists Use Oscillations of Atoms to Control a Phase Transition
The goal of “Femtochemistry” is to film and control chemical reactions with short flashes of light. Using consecutive laser pulses, atomic bonds can be excited…
Light “Hypernucleus” Predicted to Be Stable Despite Having Two Strange Quarks
Calculations predict that a light ‘hypernucleus’ containing a particle with two strange quarks will be stable Adding an exotic particle known as a Xi hyperon…
Polarized Light-Matter Interaction: New Optical Phenomenon Revealed by Cartwheeling Light
Rice University study finds novel type of polarized light-matter interaction. A scientist might want to do cartwheels upon making a discovery, but this time the…
Extremely Fast Electronic Changes Observed in Real Time in a Special Material Class
In physics, they are currently the subject of intensive research; in electronics, they could enable completely new functions. So-called topological materials are characterized by special…
Observation of the Quantum Spin Liquid State in Novel Material Advances Spintronics
New insight into the spin behavior in an exotic state of matter puts us closer to next-generation spintronic devices. Aside from the deep understanding of…
Branched Flow of Light Observed for the Very First Time
The beautiful phenomenon allows for new and exciting research opportunities in the fields of Optics and Optofluidics A team of researchers from the Technion –…
Breakthrough Towards Lasers Powerful Enough to Investigate a New Kind of Physics
An international team of researchers has demonstrated an innovative technique for increasing the intensity of lasers. In a paper that made the cover of the…