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Condensed Matter Apr 8, 2024

Magnetic levitation: New material offers potential for unlocking gravity-free technology

Researchers at the Quantum Machines Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) are studying levitating materials—substances that can remain suspended in a stable position without any physical contact ...

Optics & Photonics Apr 8, 2024

Atom interferometer charters Navy's inertial navigation path to reduce drift

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) researchers have developed a patent-pending Continuous 3D-Cooled Atom Beam Interferometer derived from a patented cold and continuous beam of atoms to explore atom-interferometry-based ...

Condensed Matter Apr 7, 2024

Scientists investigate information propagation in interacting bosonic systems

A new study by scientists from Japan explores the propagation of quantum information within interacting boson systems like Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), revealing the potential for accelerated transmission unlike previously ...

General Physics Apr 5, 2024

Kerr-enhanced optical spring for next-generation gravitational wave detectors

The detection of gravitational waves stands as one of the most significant achievements in modern physics. In 2017, gravitational waves from the merger of a binary neutron star were detected for the first time which uncovered ...

Condensed Matter Apr 5, 2024

Simulating magnetization in a Heisenberg quantum spin chain

The rapid progress of quantum simulators is now enabling them to study problems that before have been limited to the domain of theoretical physics and numerical simulation. A team of researchers at Google Quantum AI and their ...

Analytical Chemistry Apr 5, 2024

Chemical reactions can scramble quantum information as well as black holes

If you were to throw a message in a bottle into a black hole, all of the information in it, down to the quantum level, would become completely scrambled. Because in black holes this scrambling happens as quickly and thoroughly ...

Quantum Physics Apr 5, 2024

Quantinuum quantum computer using Microsoft's 'logical quantum bits' runs 14,000 experiments with no errors

A team of computer engineers from quantum computer maker Quantinuum, working with computer scientists from Microsoft, has found a way to greatly reduce errors when running experiments on a quantum computer. The combined group ...

Analytical Chemistry Apr 5, 2024

Scientists harness chemical dynamics for complex problem solving

At the intersection of chemistry and computation, researchers from the University of Glasgow have developed a hybrid digital-chemical probabilistic computational system based on the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction which ...

Quantum Physics Apr 4, 2024

New focused approach can help untangle messy quantum scrambling problems

The world is a cluttered, noisy place, and the ability to effectively focus is a valuable skill. For example, at a bustling party, the clatter of cutlery, the conversations, the music, the scratching of your shirt tag and ...

Condensed Matter Apr 4, 2024

'It's ultimately about predicting everything'—theory could be a map in the hunt for quantum materials

A breakthrough in theoretical physics is an important step toward predicting the behavior of the fundamental matter of which our world is built. It can be used to calculate systems of enormous quantities of quantum particles, ...

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