Scientists dramatically enhance the achievable resolution at free-electron lasers with a new technique. Hard X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) have delivered intense, ultrashort X-ray pulses for…
A new way to form self-aligned ‘color centers’ promises scalability to over 10,000 qubits for applications in quantum sensing and quantum computing. Achieving the immense…
A certain type of oil droplets changes shape when cooled and shrunk: from spherical through icosahedral to flat hexagonal. Two competing theories couldn’t fully explain…
Known as “pair-density waves,” it may be key to understanding how superconductivity can exist at relatively high temperatures. Unconventional superconductors contain a number of exotic…
Lancaster scientists have demonstrated that other physicists’ recent “discovery” of the field effect in superconductors is nothing but hot electrons after all. A team of…
New technique gets around 100-year-old rule of quantum physics for the first time. The uncertainty principle, first introduced by Werner Heisenberg in the late 1920’s,…
Why Hotter Clocks Are More Accurate A new experiment shows that the more energy consumed by a clock, the more accurate its timekeeping. Clocks pervade…
The findings could lead to faster, more secure memory storage, in the form of antiferromagnetic bits. When you save an image to your smartphone, those…
A novel technique for studying vortices in quantum fluids has been developed by Lancaster physicists. Andrew Guthrie, Sergey Kafanov, Theo Noble, Yuri Pashkin, George Pickett…
Excitons are quasiparticles that can transport energy through solid substances. This makes them important for the development of future materials and devices — but more…
Physicists at the University of Bath in the UK observe modified energy landscapes at the intersection of 2D materials. In 1884, Edwin Abbott wrote the…
Researchers at Tampere University Photonics Laboratory have demonstrated how two interfering photons can bunch into various shapes. These complex shapes are beneficial for quantum technologies,…
Important milestone for next-generation acceleration experiment. The future of particle acceleration has begun. Awake is a promising concept for a completely new method with which…
In 2001 at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, a facility used for research in nuclear and high-energy physics, scientists experimenting with a…
Light that is sent into a ‘photonic crystal’, can’t go deeper than the so-called Bragg length. Deeper inside the crystal, light of a certain color…
Findings that could help further understand how living tissue reacts to radiation exposure. Energy flows through a system of atoms or molecules by a series…
Spinning or rotating objects are commonplace, from toy tops and fidget spinners to spinning figure skaters. And from water circling a drain to far less…
Researchers from Osaka University discover phenomenon of reciprocating propagation of laser pulse intensity in free space. Straight-line constant-speed propagation in free space is a basic…