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Chi-Nu experiment ends, bolsters nuclear security and energy reactors
The results of the Chi-Nu physics experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory have contributed essential, never-before-observed data for enhancing nuclear security applications, understanding criticality safety and designing ...
General Physics
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Researchers fabricate chip-based optical resonators with record low UV losses
Researchers have created chip-based photonic resonators that operate in the ultraviolet (UV) and visible regions of the spectrum and exhibit a record low UV light loss. The new resonators lay the groundwork for increasing ...
Optics & Photonics
16 hours ago
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Memory-induced Magnus effect: Looking at the unexpected curveball in miniature
Whether you are familiar with the term "Magnus effect" or not, you have certainly seen it in action. It is when a spinning ball—for instance in football, cricket or baseball—bends away from its expected trajectory, often ...
General Physics
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New spin-squeezing techniques let atoms work together for better quantum measurements
Opening new possibilities for quantum sensors, atomic clocks and tests of fundamental physics, JILA researchers have developed new ways of "entangling" or interlinking the properties of large numbers of particles. In the ...
Quantum Physics
21 hours ago
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Making a femtosecond laser out of glass
Is it possible to make a femtosecond laser entirely out of glass? That's the rabbit hole that Yves Bellouard, head of EPFL's Galatea Laboratory, went down after years of spending hours—and hours—aligning femtosecond lasers ...
Optics & Photonics
22 hours ago
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Holographic hybridization technique allows changes of depth of field in recorded pictures and videos
Most of the imaging technologies available today, including smartphone cameras, digital video cameras, microscopes and telescopes, are based on the concepts of direct imaging, i.e., a camera directly recording a scene in ...
Successful optical biosensing using dual optical combs: High sensitivity and rapid detection of biomolecules
Bio-sensors are biomolecular sensors that leverage or mimic the sophisticated molecular recognition capabilities of living organisms. They find widespread applications in fields such as health care, food, and the environment.
Optics & Photonics
22 hours ago
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Researchers prepare for exascale supercomputer simulations of nuclear reactors
Nuclear energy is responsible for approximately one-fifth of total electricity used in the U.S., and nearly half of the country's renewable electricity. Most of the reactors generating this electricity were built decades ...
General Physics
15 hours ago
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Single sideband modulation technique can relax the bandwidth restriction
As an ultra-wideband microwave signal, amplitude shift keying (ASK) can be used in many applications, such as electronic warfare, wireless communications and modern radar systems. Initially, ASK microwave signals are generated ...
Optics & Photonics
23 hours ago
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Imaging the elusive skyrmion: Neutron tomography reveals their shapes and dynamics in bulk materials
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with colleagues elsewhere have employed neutron imaging and a reconstruction algorithm to reveal for the first time the 3D shapes and dynamics of very ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 26, 2023
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Why Einstein must be wrong: In search of the theory of gravity
Einstein's theory of gravity—general relativity—has been very successful for more than a century. However, it has theoretical shortcomings. This is not surprising: the theory predicts its own failure at spacetime singularities ...
General Physics
Sep 25, 2023
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Scientists observe Hubbard exciton in strongly correlated insulators
A team of scientists, led by Dr. David Hsieh from the California Institute of Technology, have observed evidence of stable Hubbard excitons in a photo-doped antiferromagnetic Mott insulator. The findings of their study are ...
New qubit circuit enables quantum operations with higher accuracy
In the future, quantum computers may be able to solve problems that are far too complex for today's most powerful supercomputers. To realize this promise, quantum versions of error correction codes must be able to account ...
Quantum Physics
Sep 25, 2023
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Light and sound waves reveal negative pressure
Negative pressure is a rare and challenging-to-detect phenomenon in physics. Using liquid-filled optical fibers and sound waves, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) in Erlangen have now ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 25, 2023
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ATLAS measures strength of the strong force with record precision
Binding together quarks into protons, neutrons and atomic nuclei is a force so strong, it's in the name. The strong force, which is carried by gluon particles, is the strongest of all fundamental forces of nature—the others ...
General Physics
Sep 25, 2023
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Inspired by butterfly wings, researchers develop a soft, color-changing system for optical devices
Researchers at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have designed an innovative pixelated, soft, color-changing system called a Morphable Concavity Array (MoCA).
Optics & Photonics
Sep 25, 2023
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What is quantum squeezing?
How many times have you shown up to a video meeting with people at work only to find you have terrible internet that day? Maybe the others on the call are cutting in and out, or maybe your own signal is being corrupted on ...
Quantum Physics
Sep 25, 2023
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Natural evolutionary strategy boosts quantum computing performance
A team of researchers led by Yumin Dong of Chongqing Normal University has developed a novel method to optimize parametric quantum circuits, a critical component of variational quantum algorithms. The method combines the ...
Quantum Physics
Sep 25, 2023
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Theoretical study shows that Kerr black holes could amplify new physics
Black holes are regions in space characterized by extremely strong gravity, which prevents all matter and electromagnetic waves from escaping it. These fascinating cosmic bodies have been the focus of countless research studies, ...
Exploring the relationship between thermalization dynamics and quantum criticality in lattice gauge theories
Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China(USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have developed an ultra-cold atom quantum simulator to study the relationship between the non-equilibrium thermalization ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 22, 2023
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