News tagged with phase coherence

Graphite enters different states of matter

(Phys.org) -- For the first time, scientists have seen an X-ray-irradiated mineral go to two different states of matter in about 40 femtoseconds (a femtosecond is one quadrillionth of a second).

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists Detect 'Fingerprint' of High-Temp Superconductivity Above Transition Temperature

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of U.S. and Japanese scientists has shown for the first time that the spectroscopic "fingerprint" of high-temperature superconductivity remains intact well above the super chilly temperatures ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 8

Exerting better control over matter waves

(PhysOrg.com) -- “The concept of matter waves is at the heart of quantum mechanics,” Oliver Morsch tells PhysOrg.com. “At the beginning of the last century, scientists discovered that solid particles could exhibit proper ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (29) | comments 15 feature




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The need for speed

Coherent Raman scattering methods have one key advantage over spontaneous Raman microscopy: speed. The (sub-)microsecond pixel dwell times offered by narrowband CRS imaging methods have initiated a new era ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Physicists store short movies in an atomic vapor

The storage of light-encoded messages on film and compact disks and as holograms is ubiquitous---grocery scanners, Netflix disks, credit-card images are just a few examples. And now light signals can be stored ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Novel probe for ultracold quantum matter developed

(Phys.org) -- In a paper published in the May 20, 2012 edition of the journal Nature Physics, a research group from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University reports the development and de ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

X-ray laser uncovers secrets of complex oxide material

(Phys.org) -- An international team of researchers has used SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) to discover never-before-seen behavior by electrons in complex materials with extraordinary properties.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Northrop grumman fires up rugged solid-state laser weapon

Northrop Grumman Corporation has test fired the first product in its next-generation FIRESTRIKE family of high-energy, solid-state lasers that meet goals for size and weight reduction and ruggedization for ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 18

Long predicted but never observed: A new kind of quantum junction

A new type of quantum bit called a "phase-slip qubit", devised by researchers at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute and their collaborators, has enabled the world's first-ever experimental demonstration ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

First, fast, and faster

(Phys.org) -- Scientists in PML's Quantum Measurement Division have produced the first superluminal light pulses made by using a technique called four-wave mixing, creating two separate pulses whose peaks ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 33 | with audio podcast

Physicists find patterns in new state of matter

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered patterns which underlie the properties of a new state of matter.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 26 | with audio podcast

Researchers engineer molecular magnets to act as long-lived qubits

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some physicists today are investigating the possibility of using molecular magnets as information storage units in future quantum computers. Molecular magnets are molecules whose magnetic ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

APEX: At the forefront of what's needed for the next generation of light sources

(PhysOrg.com) -- The focus of Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Photon Injector Experiment, APEX, is an extraordinary electron gun specially designed for the front end of superconducting accelerators. When it’s ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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