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ATLAS gets under the hood of the Higgs mechanism
The detection of longitudinally polarized W boson production at the Large Hadron Collider is an important step towards understanding how the primordial electroweak symmetry broke, giving rise to the masses of elementary particles.
General Physics
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Scientists observe exotic quantum phase once thought impossible
A team of Rice University researchers reported the first direct observation of a surprising quantum phenomenon predicted over half a century ago, opening pathways for revolutionary applications in quantum computing, communication, ...
Condensed Matter
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Cooler, faster, better: Crystal waves enable ultrafast heat transfer for cooler electronics
Imagine if phones never got hot no matter how many apps were running. Picture a future where supercomputers use less energy, electric cars charge faster, and life-saving medical devices stay cooler and last longer.
General Physics
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New data reveal neutrinos' mass is under 0.45 electronvolts
Neutrinos are among the most enigmatic particles in the universe. They are omnipresent yet interact extremely rarely with matter.
General Physics
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Unlocking coffee's potential: Physics offers a path to better brews
The cost of raw arabica beans, the core component of most coffee, has spiked in recent years due to four consecutive seasons of adverse weather. Climate change has added further strain, threatening the delicate temperature ...
General Physics
Apr 13, 2025
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Maximal entanglement sheds new light on particle creation
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University (SBU) have shown that particles produced in collimated sprays called jets retain information about their origins ...
General Physics
Apr 13, 2025
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Researchers discover a new type of quantum entanglement
A study from Technion unveils a newly discovered form of quantum entanglement in the total angular momentum of photons confined in nanoscale structures. This discovery could play a key role in the future miniaturization of ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 11, 2025
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Scientists find evidence of universal conformal invariance in diverse cellular movement
In a new Nature Physics study, researchers have provided evidence of universal conformal invariance in living biological cells. They show that a universal feature in the collective behavior emerges in groups of living cells.
Light that spirals like a nautilus shell
Beams of light that can be guided into corkscrew-like shapes called optical vortices are used today in a range of applications. Pushing the limits of structured light, Harvard applied physicists in the John A. Paulson School ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 11, 2025
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Breaking a century-old physics barrier: Scientists achieve perfect wave trapping with simple cylinders
A joint research team has successfully demonstrated the complete confinement of mechanical waves within a single resonator—something long thought to be theoretically impossible. Their findings, published on April 3 in Physical ...
General Physics
Apr 11, 2025
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Scientists discover simpler is better when it comes to terahertz time-domain spectroscopy
A simple tweak to the usual setup is all that is needed to enhance a spectroscopy technique that uses waves in the terahertz region to probe samples, RIKEN physicists have discovered. The findings are published in the journal ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 11, 2025
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A new frontier in spintronics: Antiferromagnetic quasicrystals unveiled
Quasicrystals (QCs) are fascinating solid materials that exhibit an intriguing atomic arrangement. Unlike regular crystals, in which atomic arrangements have an ordered repeating pattern, QCs display long-range atomic order ...
Condensed Matter
Apr 11, 2025
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No butterfingers in baseball: Understanding slip between fingertips and the ball
Before June 3, 2021, baseballs spun more. That's the day when Major League Baseball (MLB) said it would begin cleaning up a sticky situation: unapproved substances, like pine resin, smeared on baseballs to help pitchers keep ...
General Physics
Apr 11, 2025
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Einstein's dream of a unified field theory accomplished?
During the latter part of the 20th century, string theory was put forward as a unifying theory of physics foundations. String theory has not, however, fulfilled expectations. That is why we are of the view that the scientific ...
New experiment halves weight limit of elusive neutrinos
Scientists trying to discover the elusive mass of neutrinos, tiny "ghost particles" that could solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, announced a new limit on Thursday for how much they could weigh, halving the previous ...
General Physics
Apr 10, 2025
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A new approach to probe hadronization via quantum entanglement
Recent physics studies have discovered that quarks and gluons inside protons, which are subatomic positively charged particles, exhibit maximal quantum entanglement at high energies. Entanglement is a physical phenomenon ...
Simulating quantum magnetism with a digital quantum computer
Quantum computers, which process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, have the potential to outperform classical computers in some optimization and computational tasks. In addition, they could be used to simulate ...
Scientists observe the first 'quantum rain'
In the Quantum Mixtures Lab of the National Institute of Optics (Cnr-Ino), a team of researchers from Cnr, the University of Florence and the European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS) observed the phenomenon ...
Quantum Physics
Apr 10, 2025
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New AI tool set to speed quest for advanced superconductors
Using artificial intelligence shortens the time to identify complex quantum phases in materials from months to minutes, finds a new study published in Newton. The breakthrough could significantly speed up research into quantum ...
Superconductivity
Apr 10, 2025
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Laser plasma accelerator achieves enhanced electron beam quality for practical applications
Laser plasma acceleration is a potentially disruptive technology: It could be used to build far more compact accelerators and open up new use cases in fundamental research, industry and health. However, on the path to real-world ...
Plasma Physics
Apr 10, 2025
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