PROSPECT Ready To Search For A Previously Unobserved Particle
The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment (PROSPECT) has completed the installation of a novel antineutrino detector that will probe the possible existence of a…
Physics News
Scientists Make First Observations of Phasons
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory made the first observations of waves of atomic rearrangements, known as phasons, propagating supersonically through…
Quantum Entanglement Between Two Ultra-Cold Atomic Clouds
The prestigious journal Science has echoed a novel experiment in the field of quantum physics in which several members of the Quantum Information Theory and…
Magneto-Gravitational Trap Provides Precise Measurement of Neutron Lifetime
A study led in part by physicists at the Indiana University Center for the Exploration of Energy and Matter could provide new insight into the…
Quantum Chaos May Be The Key To Quantum Computers
New research gives insight into a recent experiment that was able to manipulate an unprecedented number of atoms through a quantum simulator. This new theory…
Physicists Devise New Diagnostic for Particle Accelerators
The world’s cutting-edge particle accelerators are pushing the extremes in high-brightness beams and ultrashort pulses to explore matter in new ways. To optimize their performance…
Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory About The Big Bang
Professor Stephen Hawking’s final theory on the origin of the universe, which he worked on in collaboration with Professor Thomas Hertog from KU Leuven, has…
Yale Physicists Discover Signs of a Time Crystal
Yale physicists have uncovered hints of a time crystal — a form of matter that “ticks” when exposed to an electromagnetic pulse — in the…
Scientists Demonstrate Light Controlled Current Transport by Charged Atoms
Light controlled current transport by charged atoms, now demonstrated for the first time, makes new applications conceivable. Light makes some materials conductive in a previously…
Physicists Discover Way to “Switch” Between the Different States of Matter
An international team of physicists has managed for the first time to experimentally observe a transition between two different states of matter: a propagating polariton-soliton…
Physicists Complete First End-to-End Quantum Data Transmission Done on Demand
Researchers from Yale University have completed the first end-to-end quantum data transmission ever done on demand using novel “pitch-and-catch” technologies. Yale’s latest work expanding the…
Flexo-Photovoltaic Effect Squeezes More Power Out of Solar Cells
Physicists at the University of Warwick have published new research in the Journal Science that could literally squeeze more power out of solar cells by…
Expanding Cloud of Atoms Provides Insight Into Cosmological Questions
Researchers playing with a cloud of ultracold atoms uncovered behavior that bears a striking resemblance to the universe in microcosm. Their work, which forges new…
New Research Helps Explain Mercury’s Magnetic Tail
Theoretical physicists used simulations to explain the unusual readings collected in 2009 by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission. The origin…
Physicists Propose a New State of Matter “Superfluid Quasicrystal”
The term “superfluid quasicrystal” sounds like something a comic-book villain might use to carry out his dastardly plans. In reality, it’s a new form of…
Physicists Use Laser Light to Gain Access to Long-Lived Sound Waves
Yale scientists used laser light to gain access to long-lived sound waves in crystalline solids as the basis for information storage. The result was published…
Scientists Describe a New Configuration of Artificial Spin Ice
An intricate lattice of microscopic magnets has led researchers to observe behavior that is reminiscent of the complexities of quantum mechanical systems, but in the…
Physicists Report First Results from CUORE Neutrino Experiment
New data could shed light on why the universe has more matter than antimatter. This week, an international team of physicists, including researchers at MIT,…