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Lead-208's doubly magic nucleus defies expectations with surprising shape properties
In a surprising turn of events, an international team of scientists has found that lead-208 (208Pb), the heaviest known "doubly magic" nucleus, exhibits unexpected shape characteristics that current nuclear models fail to ...
Atomically thin NbSe₂ demonstrates resilient superconducting fluctuations
Superconductivity is an intriguing property observed in some materials, which entails the ability to conduct electric current combined with an electrical resistance of zero at low temperatures. Physicists have observed this ...
Inspired by Maxwell's demon, heat flow acts as a witness to quantum properties
In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists have discovered a novel approach to detecting the quantum properties of a system by simply using heat as a witness, requiring no direct measurement of the quantum ...
A new approach to reduce decoherence in superconducting qudit-based quantum processors
Quantum computers, which operate leveraging quantum mechanics effects, could soon outperform traditional computers in some advanced optimization and simulation tasks. Most quantum computing systems developed so far store ...
Deep learning model boosts plasma predictions in nuclear fusion by 1,000 times
A research team, led by Professor Jimin Lee and Professor Eisung Yoon in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at UNIST, has unveiled a deep learning–based approach that significantly accelerates the computation of a nonlinear ...
Plasma Physics
Feb 28, 2025
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Will neutrons compromise the operation of superconducting magnets in a fusion plant?
High-temperature superconducting magnets made from REBCO, an acronym for rare-earth barium copper oxide, make it possible to create an intense magnetic field that can confine the extremely hot plasma needed for fusion reactions, ...
Superconductivity
Feb 28, 2025
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First on-chip multipartite entanglement achieved with optical microcomb
A recent study has realized multipartite entanglement on an optical chip for the first time, constituting a significant advance for scalable quantum information. The paper, titled "Continuous-variable multipartite entanglement ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 28, 2025
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From automation to analysis, AI-driven innovations are making synchrotron science faster, smarter, more efficient
The National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)—a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory—is among the world's most advanced synchrotron light sources, ...
General Physics
Feb 28, 2025
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An equation of state for dense nuclear matter such as neutron stars
Neutron stars are some of the densest objects in the universe. They are the core of a collapsed megastar that went supernova, have a typical radius of 10 km—just slightly more than the altitude of Mt. Everest—and their ...
New study sets tighter constraints on elusive sterile neutrinos
Neutrinos have always been difficult to study because their small mass and neutral charge make them especially elusive. Scientists have made a lot of headway in the field and can now detect three flavors, or oscillation states, ...
General Physics
Feb 27, 2025
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Super-resolution microscopy achieves nanometer resolution without traditional ON/OFF switching
Overcoming the resolution limit in a light microscope of around half a wavelength of light (about 250 nanometers) is one of the most significant developments in optics. Due to the wave nature of light, even the best lens ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 27, 2025
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Methane's collision with gold surfaces reveals how quantum interference and symmetry dictate molecular behavior
The quantum rules shaping molecular collisions are now coming into focus, offering fresh insights for chemistry and materials science. When molecules collide with surfaces, a complex exchange of energy takes place between ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 27, 2025
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Unraveling how a 'magnetic twist' induces one-way electric flow
Researchers at Tohoku University, the University of Manchester, and Osaka University have made a breakthrough that has the potential to ignite the development of next-gen chiral information technology.
Condensed Matter
Feb 27, 2025
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Optimized approach enables super-resolution 3D direct laser writing with unprecedented speed and resolution
For the first time, researchers have used high-speed laser writing to create lines spaced just 100 nm apart on a glass substrate. The optimized printing approach could enable super-resolution 3D direct laser writing (DLW) ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 27, 2025
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Unraveling the origin of extremely bright quantum emitters
Many next-generation quantum devices rely on single-photon emitters based on optically active defects in solids, known as color centers. Understanding their properties is fundamental to developing novel quantum technologies.
Optics & Photonics
Feb 27, 2025
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Polymer microdomes reveal tunable chiral structural colors with significant implications for optical applications
Chiral-structural-color materials produce color through microscopic structures that interact with light rather than through pigmentation or dyes. Some beetle exoskeletons, avian feathers, butterfly wings, and marine organisms ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 27, 2025
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Physicists find unexpected crystals of electrons in new ultrathin material
MIT physicists report the unexpected discovery of electrons forming crystalline structures in a material only billionths of a meter thick. The work adds to a gold mine of discoveries originating from the material, which the ...
Condensed Matter
Feb 26, 2025
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Hofstadter's butterfly: Quantum fractal patterns visualized
A team of scientists from Princeton University has measured the energies of electrons in a new class of quantum materials and has found them to follow a fractal pattern. Fractals are self-repeating patterns that occur on ...
Condensed Matter
Feb 26, 2025
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How Schrödinger's cat could help improve quantum computers
Quantum computers could be made with fewer overall components, thanks to technology inspired by Schrödinger's cat. A team of researchers from Amazon Web Services has used "bosonic cat qubits," to improve the ability of quantum ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 26, 2025
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Engineers achieve multiplexing entanglement in quantum network
Laying the groundwork for quantum communication systems of the future, engineers at Caltech have demonstrated the successful operation of a quantum network of two nodes, each containing multiple quantum bits, or qubits—the ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 26, 2025
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