Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have become the first to experimentally observe a quirky behavior of the quantum world: a "quantum boomerang" effect that occurs when particles in a disordered system are kicked out of their ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 28, 2022
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Engineers at Caltech have developed an approach for quantum storage that could help pave the way for the development of large-scale optical quantum networks.
Quantum Physics
Feb 16, 2022
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University of Wisconsin–Madison physicists have made one of the highest performance atomic clocks ever, they announced Feb. 16 in the journal Nature.
General Physics
Feb 16, 2022
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When sound was first incorporated into movies in the 1920s, it opened up new possibilities for filmmakers such as music and spoken dialogue. Physicists may be on the verge of a similar revolution, thanks to a new device developed ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 10, 2021
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Scientists have developed a groundbreaking theory for calculating what's happening inside a proton traveling at the speed of light.
General Physics
Oct 6, 2021
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A team of researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, working with a group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has developed a non-invasive way to image Wigner crystals directly. In their paper published ...
Researchers have discovered a complex landscape of electronic states that can co-exist on a kagome lattice, resembling those in high-temperature superconductors, a team of Boston College physicists reports in an advance electronic ...
Superconductivity
Sep 30, 2021
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An international team led by researchers at Princeton University has uncovered a new pattern of ordering of electric charge in a novel superconducting material.
Condensed Matter
Jun 18, 2021
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Reconfigurable materials can do amazing things. Flat sheets transform into a face. An extruded cube transforms into dozens of different shapes. But there's one thing a reconfigurable material has yet to be able to change: ...
Materials Science
Apr 14, 2021
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Thermoelectric technology can generate electricity from waste heat, although their performance can result in a bottleneck for wider applications. Materials scientists can regulate the configurational entropy of a material ...
