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Using achiral hard banana-shaped particles to assemble skyrmions and blue phases
A research team has discovered that achiral hard banana-shaped particles can spontaneously form exotic structures like skyrmions and blue phase III phases. Skyrmions are tiny vortex-like structures found in various condensed-matter ...
Condensed Matter
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Exploring a new qubit with the gemstone spinel
The gemstone spinel, known for its vibrant colors resembling gems such as rubies and sapphires, has now been shown to be capable of storing quantum information, making it a viable material in the field of quantum technology.
Condensed Matter
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New technique to detect dark matter uses atomic clocks and lasers
A team of international researchers has developed an innovative approach to uncover the secrets of dark matter. In a collaboration between the University of Queensland, Australia, and Germany's metrology institute (Physikalisch-Technische ...
General Physics
Jan 24, 2025
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Engineering the first semimetallic Weyl quantum crystal
An international team of researchers led by the Strong Correlation Quantum Transport Laboratory of the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) has demonstrated, in a world's first, an ideal Weyl semimetal, marking ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 24, 2025
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Quantum computer efficiently suppresses errors with two different correction codes
Computers also make mistakes. These are usually suppressed by technical measures or detected and corrected during the calculation. In quantum computers, this involves some effort, as no copy can be made of an unknown quantum ...
Quantum Physics
Jan 24, 2025
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Soap's maze-solving skills could unlock secrets of the human body
An international team of scientists have discovered that soap could be important to helping our understanding of complex systems in the human body, such as lungs, and improving therapies for conditions such as respiratory ...
Soft Matter
Jan 24, 2025
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Clocking nature's heaviest elementary particle: CMS tests whether top quarks play by Einstein's rules
In the first study of its kind at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the CMS collaboration has tested whether top quarks adhere to Einstein's special theory of relativity. The research is published in the journal Physics Letters ...
General Physics
Jan 23, 2025
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Imagining the physics of George R.R. Martin's fictional universe
Many science fiction authors try to incorporate scientific principles into their work, but Ian Tregillis, who is a contributing author of the Wild Cards book series when he's not working as a physicist at Los Alamos National ...
General Physics
Jan 23, 2025
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Study demonstrates integration of 1,024 silicon quantum dots with on-chip electronics all operating at low temperatures
Quantum computers have the potential of outperforming classical computers on some optimization tasks. Yet scaling up quantum computers leveraging existing fabrication processes while also maintaining good performances and ...
Physicists propose 'bridge' strategy to stabilize quantum networks
While entangled photons hold incredible promise for quantum computing and communications, they have a major inherent disadvantage. After one use, they simply disappear.
Quantum Physics
Jan 23, 2025
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Physicists pioneer entanglement microscopy algorithm for quantum many-body systems
Quantum entanglement—a phenomenon where particles are mysteriously linked no matter how far apart they are—presents a long-standing challenge in the physical world, particularly in understanding its behavior within complex ...
Quantum Physics
Jan 23, 2025
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Terahertz pulses induce chirality in a non-chiral crystal
Chirality refers to objects that cannot be superimposed onto their mirror images through any combination of rotations or translations, much like the distinct left and right hands of a human. In chiral crystals, the spatial ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 23, 2025
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Scientists develop novel device to modulate polarization of THz waves
Terahertz (THz) waves, situated between the microwave and infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, have drawn considerable attention over the past two decades.
Optics & Photonics
Jan 23, 2025
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Detecting edges of images at the speed of light
Physicists from the group of Jorik van de Groep at the UvA-Institute of Physics have devised a new method that can be used to detect edges of images in an extremely energy efficient and ultrafast way. The results were recently ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 23, 2025
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Boosted tin-based qubit signals enhance quantum communication prospects
The future of tin-based qubits is brighter thanks to breakthrough work by Stanford University researchers. Qubits are the fundamental carriers of quantum information, and scientists worldwide are engineering atoms to create ...
Quantum Physics
Jan 23, 2025
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Quantum thermometer uses giant Rydberg atoms to measure temperature more accurately
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a new thermometer using atoms boosted to such high energy levels that they are a thousand times larger than normal. By monitoring how these ...
Quantum Physics
Jan 23, 2025
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Fox and rabbit in the quantum world: Atomic particles with antagonistic interactions
Researchers at the University of Basel have shown that quantum systems can have antagonistic interactions, too—one agent attracts the other, but the other way around, there is a repulsion. Such interactions could be realized ...
Quantum Physics
Jan 23, 2025
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Electron spin resonance sheds light on tin-based perovskite solar cell efficiency
Perovskite solar cells are attracting attention as next-generation solar cells. These cells have high efficiency, are flexible, and can be printed, among other features. However, lead was initially used in their manufacture, ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 23, 2025
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From classical to quantum: Reimagining the Mpemba effect at the atomic scale
In a new Nature Communications study, scientists have demonstrated the quantum version of the strong Mpemba effect (sME) in a single trapped ion system.
New electromagnetic material draws inspiration from the color-shifting chameleon
The chameleon, a lizard known for its color-changing skin, is the inspiration behind a new electromagnetic material that could someday make vehicles and aircraft "invisible" to radar.
Condensed Matter
Jan 22, 2025
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