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Smartphone-based microscope rapidly reconstructs 3D holograms
Researchers have developed a new smartphone-based digital holographic microscope that enables precision 3D measurements. The highly portable and inexpensive microscope could help bring 3D measurement capabilities to a broader ...
Optics & Photonics
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Discovery of a new phase of matter in 2D defies normal statistical mechanics
Physicists from the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge have created the first two-dimensional version of the Bose glass, a novel phase of matter that challenges statistical mechanics. The details of the study have been published ...
General Physics
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Scientists cool positronium to near absolute zero for antimatter research
Most atoms are made from positively charged protons, neutral neutrons and negatively charged electrons. Positronium is an exotic atom composed of a single negative electron and a positively charged antimatter positron. It ...
General Physics
7 hours ago
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New classical algorithm enhances understanding of quantum computing's future
In an exciting development for quantum computing, researchers from the University of Chicago's Department of Computer Science, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, and Argonne National Laboratory have introduced a classical ...
Quantum Physics
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Overcoming magnetic disorder: Toward low-energy topological electronics
Overcoming magnetic disorder is key to exploiting the unique properties of quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators. A Monash-led team has demonstrated that the breakdown in topological protection is caused by magnetic disorder, ...
Condensed Matter
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Novel Mössbauer scheme proposed for gravitation wave detection
Scientists at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have proposed an innovative method to realize gravitational wave detection by utilizing Mössbauer resonance. Their findings, recently ...
General Physics
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Unique nanodisk pushes photonics research forward
Photonic applications harness the power of light-matter interactions to generate various intriguing phenomena. This has enabled major advances in communications, medicine, and spectroscopy, among others, and is also used ...
Optics & Photonics
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Google Quantum AI demonstrates a quantum memory system that greatly reduces error rates
A team of computer scientists at Google Quantum AI has demonstrated a type of quantum memory for a quantum computer that produces far fewer errors than others. The group has published a paper on the arXiv preprint server ...
Scientists demonstrate first experimental evidence of non-Hermitian edge burst in photonic quantum walks
In a new Physical Review Letters study, scientists have demonstrated the first experimental observation of non-Hermitian edge burst in quantum dynamics using a carefully designed photonic quantum walk setup.
First neutrinos detected at Fermilab short-baseline detector
Scientists working on the Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have identified the detector's first neutrino interactions.
General Physics
Sep 10, 2024
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Science fair project leads to new research explaining the glugging effect
As Rohit Velankar, now a senior at Fox Chapel Area High School, poured juice into a glass, he could feel that the rhythmic "glug, glug, glug" was flexing the walls of the carton.
General Physics
Sep 10, 2024
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Unprecedented spin properties revealed in new artificial materials
In conjunction with research staff from the Charles University of Prague and the CFM (CSIC-UPV/EHU) center in San Sebastian, CIC nanoGUNE's Nanodevices group has designed a new complex material with emerging properties in ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 10, 2024
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Strong magnetic second harmonic generation effect discovered in two-dimensional CrPS₄ monolayer
A research team led by Professor Sheng Zhigao at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has, for the first time, observed the strong nonlinear magnetic second harmonic generation (MSHG) ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 10, 2024
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First robot leg with 'artificial muscles' jumps nimbly: Study
Researchers said on Monday they had designed the first robotic leg with "artificial muscles"—oil-filled bags allowing machines to move more like humans—that can jump nimbly across a range of surfaces.
General Physics
Sep 9, 2024
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Scientists prove long-standing wave amplification theory
Physicists at the University of Southampton have tested and proven a 50-year-old theory for the first time using electro-magnetic waves. They have shown that the energy of waves can be increased by bouncing "twisted waves"—those ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 9, 2024
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X-rays from atomic systems could reveal new clues about rival quantum theories
The apparent weirdness of the quantum world is often exemplified by the paradox of Schrödinger's imaginary cat that exists in a limbo state of being both alive and dead until looked upon by an observer. But in the real world ...
Quantum Physics
Sep 9, 2024
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Fluctuating hydrodynamics theory could describe chaotic many-body systems, study suggests
Although systems consisting of many interacting small particles can be highly complex and chaotic, some can nonetheless be described using simple theories. Does this also pertain to the world of quantum physics?
Quantum Physics
Sep 9, 2024
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ATLAS probes Higgs interaction with the heaviest quarks
A central aim of the ATLAS Higgs physics program is to measure, with increasing precision, the strength of interactions of the Higgs boson with elementary fermions and bosons.
General Physics
Sep 9, 2024
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Electrically modulated light antenna points the way to faster computer chips
Today's computers reach their physical limits when it comes to speed. Semiconductor components usually operate at a maximum usable frequency of a few gigahertz—which corresponds to several billion computing operations per ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 9, 2024
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Quantum error correction technology outperforms world's leading quantum computing company, researchers claim
Solving the problem of error is essential for the practical application of quantum computing technologies that surpass the performance of digital computers. Information input into a qubit, the smallest unit of quantum computation, ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 9, 2024
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