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Scientists achieve direct experimental realization of dual-type entangling gates
To develop scalable and reliable quantum computers, engineers and physicists will need to devise effective strategies to mitigate errors in their quantum systems without adding complex additional components. A promising strategy ...
Fresh, direct evidence for tiny drops of quark-gluon plasma
A new analysis of data from the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) reveals fresh evidence that collisions of even very small nuclei with large ones might create tiny specks of a quark-gluon plasma ...
General Physics
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Researchers create world's brightest X-ray source with high-power laser beam and novel metal foams
By combining the National Ignition Facility (NIF) laser and ultra-light metal foams, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have produced the brightest X-ray source to date—about twice as bright as ...
Plasma Physics
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'Magic-wavelength optical tweezers' achieve quantum entanglement of molecules
Researchers at Durham University have successfully demonstrated long-lasting quantum entanglement between molecules, opening new doors for future advancements in quantum computing, sensing, and fundamental physics. The paper ...
Quantum Physics
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Record-breaking Rf-252: Researchers produce shortest-lived superheavy nucleus and measure its subsequent decay
A team of researchers from GSI/FAIR, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz has succeeded in exploring the limits of the so-called island of stability within the superheavy nuclides more precisely ...
General Physics
16 hours ago
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Scientists achieve multilevel magnetoresistance modulation in organic spintronic devices
A research team has achieved multilevel spin-based modulation of magnetoresistance in high-performance organic spin valve (OSV) devices. The study was published in Advanced Materials.
Condensed Matter
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Tapered polymer fibers enhance light delivery for neuroscience research
Researchers have developed a reliable and reproducible way to fabricate tapered polymer optical fibers that can be used to deliver light to the brain. These fibers could be used in animal studies to help scientists better ...
Optics & Photonics
17 hours ago
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Continuous cryogenic pellet injection system developed for tokamak fueling
A joint research team from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has successfully developed a continuous cryogenic pellet injection system for tokamak fueling. This innovative system addresses ...
Plasma Physics
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How the science of tiny timescales could speed up computers and improve solar cell technology
Attosecond science, the laser-led study of what happens to matter over very short timescales, could lead to major advances in our understanding of nature's fastest processes.
General Physics
14 hours ago
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Quantum experiment generates long-range entanglement in 54-qubit system
The operation and performance of quantum computers relies on the ability to realize and control entanglement between multiple qubits. Yet entanglement between many qubits is inherently susceptible to noise and imperfections ...
Quantum engineers create a 'Schrödinger's cat' inside a silicon chip
UNSW engineers have demonstrated a well-known quantum thought experiment in the real world. Their findings deliver a new and more robust way to perform quantum computations—and they have important implications for error ...
Quantum Physics
Jan 14, 2025
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Neutron star measurements place limits on color superconductivity in dense quark matter
At extremely high densities, quarks are expected to form pairs, as electrons do in a superconductor. This high-density quark behavior is called color superconductivity. The strength of pairing inside a color superconductor ...
General Physics
Jan 14, 2025
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Fast control methods enable record-setting fidelity in superconducting qubit
Quantum computing promises to solve complex problems exponentially faster than a classical computer, by using the principles of quantum mechanics to encode and manipulate information in quantum bits (qubits).
Superconductivity
Jan 14, 2025
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Engineering quantum entanglement at the nanoscale
Physicists have spent more than a century measuring and making sense of the strange ways that photons, electrons, and other subatomic particles interact at extremely small scales. Engineers have spent decades figuring out ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 14, 2025
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All-flat phononic band structure controls sound and vibrations by trapping energy
A team of UConn College of Engineering (CoE) researchers have achieved a major milestone in the field of phononics with the first experimental demonstration of an all-flat phononic band structure (AFB). Phononics concerns ...
General Physics
Jan 14, 2025
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Diamond continues to shine: New properties discovered in diamond semiconductors
Diamond, often celebrated for its unmatched hardness and transparency, has emerged as an exceptional material for high-power electronics and next-generation quantum optics. Diamond can be engineered to be as electrically ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 14, 2025
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New approach merges theoretical fundamentals with experimental studies of the proton's structure
Protons and other subatomic particles that are subject to the strong nuclear force have a complex structure that involves even more fundamental constituents called quarks and gluons. These quarks and gluons bind under the ...
General Physics
Jan 13, 2025
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Physicists develop the 'perfect' recipe for a well-known Italian pasta dish
A small team of physicists at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, working with a colleague from Universitat de Barcelona and another from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, has developed ...
Physicists discover and explain unexpected magnetism in atomically thin material
MIT physicists have created a new ultrathin, two-dimensional material with unusual magnetic properties that initially surprised them before they went on to solve the complicated puzzle behind those properties' emergence. ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 13, 2025
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Physicists experimentally observe topological defects in glasses for the first time
The amorphous state of matter is the most abundant form of visible matter in the universe, and includes all structurally disordered systems, such as biological cells or essential materials like glass and polymers.
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