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Astronomy Jan 13, 2025

Gravitational waves may prove black holes' quantum effect and resolve the dark matter problem

Black hole quantum effects are usually thought to be too small to have any observable signatures. This is indeed the case for heavy black holes, such as the ones detected via gravitational waves by LIGO in 2015. These black ...

Quantum Physics Jan 7, 2025

Quantum simulators: When nature reveals its natural laws

Quantum physics is a very diverse field: it describes particle collisions shortly after the Big Bang as well as electrons in solid materials or atoms far out in space. But not all quantum objects are equally easy to study. ...

Optics & Photonics Dec 24, 2024

Novel molecular design achieves 1,300-fold increase in scintillator radioluminescence

Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a highly effective and general molecular design that enables an enhancement in radioluminescence within organometallic scintillators by more than three ...

Quantum Physics Dec 17, 2024

Very cold detectors reveal very hot universe and kick off a new era in X-ray astronomy

X-rays are radiated by matter hotter than one million Kelvin, and high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy can tell us about the composition of the matter and how fast and in what direction it is moving. Quantum calorimeters are ...

Quantum Physics Dec 12, 2024

Physicists uncover strong light-matter interactions in quantum spin liquids

Physicists have long theorized the existence of a unique state of matter known as a quantum spin liquid. In this state, magnetic particles do not settle into an orderly pattern, even at absolute zero temperature. Instead, ...

Optics & Photonics Nov 14, 2024

Scientists find a new way of entangling light and sound

For a wide variety of emerging quantum technologies, such as secure quantum communications and quantum computing, quantum entanglement is a prerequisite. Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) ...

Optics & Photonics Oct 31, 2024

A new paradigm for control of quantum emitters—modulating and encoding quantum photonic info on a single light stream

A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) multi-disciplinary team developed a new paradigm for the control of quantum emitters, providing a new method for modulating and encoding quantum photonic information on a single photon ...

Condensed Matter Sep 26, 2024

Alternating currents for alternative computing with magnets

A new study conducted at the University of Vienna, the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, and the Helmholtz Centers in Berlin and Dresden takes an important step in the challenge to miniaturize computing ...

Nanophysics Sep 24, 2024

Researchers reveal the reality of lossless energy transport in topological insulators

Topological insulators raise the exciting hope of realizing lossless energy transport, which is true at ultralow temperatures. However, topological insulators fail to maintain this lossless 'magic' at room temperature.

General Physics Aug 27, 2024

New research suggests a way to capture physicists' most wanted particle—gravitons

A team led by Stevens professor Igor Pikovski has just outlined how to detect single gravitons, thought to be the quantum building blocks of gravity—and making that experiment real should be possible with quantum technology, ...

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