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In new studies, researchers explore novel ways to hunt dark matter
For decades, astronomers and physicists have been trying to solve one of the deepest mysteries about the cosmos: An estimated 85% of its mass is missing. Numerous astronomical observations indicate that the visible mass in ...
General Physics
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Large Hadron Collider Beauty releases first set of data to the public
The Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) experiment at CERN is the world's leading experiment in quark flavor physics with a broad particle physics program. Its data from Runs 1 and 2 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has ...
General Physics
10 hours ago
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Cupric oxide exhibiting both magnetic and dielectric properties at room temperature
The National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the U.K. and the University of Oxford in the U.K. have experimentally confirmed that a cupric oxide exhibits multiferroic state (i.e., ...
Condensed Matter
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A quantum receiver enhanced by adaptive learning
The quantum receiver is an elementary component in quantum information processing tasks. It aims to extract necessary information from non-orthogonal quantum states. Due to the nature of shot noise, signals carried by electromagnetic ...
Optics & Photonics
10 hours ago
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How to rebuild an atomic clock
Atomic clocks are crucial for everyday living as they help our telecommunications, electrical power grids, GPS systems, transportation, and other processes around the world keep precise time. Some of these clocks use lasers ...
General Physics
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Ultrafast writing with light
Due to the ever-increasing growth of our data consumption, researchers are looking for faster, more efficient, and more energy-conscious data storage techniques. TU/e researcher Youri van Hees uses ultrashort light pulses ...
Optics & Photonics
11 hours ago
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Longitudinal field laser processing enabling high aspect ratio 10 nm features produced in sapphire
Toward the end of the 19th century, Abbe and Rayleigh formulated the principles of optical diffraction that limits the resolution of optical instruments in the far-field where the distance between the target and the optical ...
Optics & Photonics
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Using 'cat states' to realize fault-tolerant quantum computers
Error correction in quantum computers could be simplified by a new protocol proposed by an all-RIKEN team based on "cat states." It could cut the computing resources needed to fix errors to the same level as conventional ...
Quantum Physics
Dec 8, 2022
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Novel mathematical technique enables better modeling of 'multiphase' fluids
Researchers have developed a mathematical technique that radically reduces the enormous computational costs of trying to model fluids that combine both liquid and gas phases, especially within rocket engines. The computational ...
General Physics
Dec 8, 2022
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Zebra-striped structures to twist neutrons and extend researchers' vision
What are these microscopic zebra-striped squares, and why did scientists painstakingly arrange more than 6 million of them on a silicon plate just half a centimeter wide?
Quantum Physics
Dec 8, 2022
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A new computational system streamlines the design of fluidic devices
Combustion engines, propellers, and hydraulic pumps are examples of fluidic devices—instruments that utilize fluids to perform certain functions, such as generating power or transporting water.
General Physics
Dec 8, 2022
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Small solar flares in large laser bodies
Using 12 high-powered lasers, researchers recreated small solar flares in order to study the mechanisms behind a fundamental astronomical phenomenon known as a magnetic reconnection.
Plasma Physics
Dec 8, 2022
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Single-electron devices could manage heat flow in electronic components
RIKEN physicists have fabricated a nanoscale "heat engine" that uses a property of electrons known as spin as the effective working medium. It is promising for exploring the development of spintronic heat engines capable ...
Condensed Matter
Dec 8, 2022
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Physicists discover new transfermium isotope lawrencium-251
Physicists have recently synthesized a new transfermium isotope lawrencium-251 and studied the α decay of lawrencium-253 in more detail. This is the first new lawrencium isotope synthesized directly over the past two decades ...
General Physics
Dec 8, 2022
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Research explains basics of aerosol formation at the vocal folds
Very small exhaled droplets, so-called aerosol particles, play an important role in the airborne transmission of pathogens such as the coronavirus. Researchers in the field of fluid mechanics used a model to investigate how ...
General Physics
Dec 8, 2022
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Study explores the possibility that dark photons might be a heat source for intergalactic gas
Gas clouds across the universe are known to absorb the light produced by distant massive celestial objects, known as quasars. This light manifests as the so-called Lyman alpha forest, a dense structure composed of absorption ...
How far has nuclear fusion power come? We could be at a turning point for the technology
Our society faces the grand challenge of providing sustainable, secure and affordable means of generating energy, while trying to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to net zero around 2050.
General Physics
Dec 7, 2022
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Quantum processor reveals bound states of photons hold strong even in the midst of chaos
Researchers have used a quantum processor to make microwave photons uncharacteristically sticky. They coaxed them to clump together into bound states, then found that these photon clusters survived in a regime where they ...
Quantum Physics
Dec 7, 2022
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A novel, space-time coding antenna promotes 6G and secure wireless communications
A research team co-led by a scientist at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has developed a novel antenna that allows manipulation of the direction, frequency and amplitude of the radiated beam, and is expected to play ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 7, 2022
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Squeezing microwave fields by magnetostrictive interaction
Squeezed states of the electromagnetic field find many important applications in quantum information science and quantum metrology. Dr. Jie Li et al. at Zhejiang University put forward a new mechanism for preparing microwave ...
Quantum Physics
Dec 7, 2022
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3D printing can help produce valuable radiopharmaceuticals
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Why does lightning zigzag? At last, an answer to the mystery
Broken symmetries provide opportunities for thermal emission management
Examining the limits of nonlocal wide-field-of-view metalenses
Changing the color of quantum light on an integrated chip
Microbial miners could help humans colonize the moon and Mars
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Dinosaur teeth reveal what they didn't eat
New strategy for the synthesis of axially chiral allenic compounds
Synthesis of a silicon-integrated organic framework film
