Nanoscale Quantum Sensors Image Stress and Magnetism at High Pressures
Tiny Quantum Sensors Made From Atomic Flaws Inside Diamond Anvils Watch Materials Transform Under Pressure Scientists at Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley convert diamonds’ atomic flaws…
Particle Physics
Single Molecule-Based Electronic Devices Explored
In a paper to be published in the forthcoming issue in NANO, a group of researchers from the Shenyang Jianzhu University in China provide an…
Scientists Invent Way to See Fastest Motions of Electrons That Drive Chemistry for the First Time
Scientists invent a way to see attosecond electron motions with an X-ray laser. Called XLEAP, the new method developed by SLAC will provide sharp views…
Using Quantum Mechanics to Trigger Atomic Fusion
Fusion by strong lasers: HZDR scientists want to use quantum mechanics to trigger the fusion of atomic nuclei at lower energies. Nuclear physics usually involves…
Blowing Bubbles: New Way to Launch and Drive Current in Fusion Plasmas Confirmed
An obstacle to generating fusion reactions inside facilities called tokamaks is that producing the current in plasma that helps create confining magnetic fields happens in…
A Playground for Exotic Physics, A Platform for Stable Quantum Computing
Recent research settles a long-standing debate. Move over Godzilla vs. King Kong — this is the crossover event you’ve been waiting for. Well, at least…
Unprecedented Insight Into the Birth of Photoelectrons and Fundamental Nature of Light-Matter Interactions
The first sub-femtosecond study of the linear photon momentum transfer during an ionization process provides unprecedented insight into the birth of photoelectrons. The interaction between…
Freezing Chemical Reactions to Investigate the Quantum Realm
With ultracold chemistry, researchers get a first look at exactly what happens during a chemical reaction. The coldest chemical reaction in the known universe took…
Researchers Create and Stabilize Pure Polymeric Nitrogen Using Plasma for the First Time
Producing polymeric nitrogen at near-ambient conditions is a new trick for liquid plasma. Scientists have long theorized that the energy stored in the atomic bonds…
New Material Captures Toxic Air Pollutant and Converts Into Useful Chemical
Metal-organic framework material requires only water and air to convert the captured gas into nitric acid for industrial use. An international team of scientists, led…
Hole-y Superconductor: Entirely New State of Matter Discovered
In a finding that reveals an entirely new state of matter, research published in the journal Science shows that Cooper pairs, electron duos that enable…
Physicists Get Closer to Solving the Proton Radius Puzzle With Unique New Measurement
Physicists get closer to solving the proton radius puzzle with unique new measurement of the charge radius of the proton. New measurement yields smaller proton…
Holographic Duality Yields Breakthrough in Black Hole Physics
A group of Skoltech researchers led by Professor Anatoly Dymarsky studied the emergence of generalized thermal ensembles in quantum systems with additional symmetries. As a…
Solving Mystery of Ultra-High-Energy Ghost-Like Particles With Next-Generation Neutrino Detector
Giant neutrino telescope to open window to ultra-high-energy universe. The long-sought, elusive ultra-high-energy neutrinos, ghost-like particles that travel cosmological-scale distances, are key to understanding the…
Intense Isotope Beam Used to Confirm a New ‘Magic Number’ for Neutrons
An international collaboration led by scientists from the University of Hong Kong, RIKEN (Japan), and CEA (France) have used the RI Beam Factory (RIBF) at…
An Exotic Analysis Technique Places Another Piece in the Dark Matter Puzzle
PRISMA+ and HIM scientists report the latest findings of the CASPEr research program in Science Advances. A team led by Prof Dmitry Budker has continued…
Lattice QCD Calculations Predict Exotic Nuclei Not on Periodic Table
Have you ever wondered how the Sun creates the energy that we get from it every day and how the other elements besides hydrogen have…
Efficient Quantum-Mechanical Interface Leads to a Strong Interaction Between Light and Matter
Researchers have succeeded in creating an efficient quantum-mechanical light-matter interface using a microscopic cavity. Within this cavity, a single photon is emitted and absorbed up…