The return of the spin echo
A research team from Garching and Vienna discovered a remarkable echo effect that offers exciting new possibilities for working with quantum information.
A research team from Garching and Vienna discovered a remarkable echo effect that offers exciting new possibilities for working with quantum information.
General Physics
Sep 24, 2020
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A terahertz laser developed at the Paul Scherrer Institute makes it possible to control a material's magnetisation at a timescale of picoseconds. In their experiment, the researchers shone extremely short light pulses from ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 12, 2013
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A quick flash of light can make ordinary materials extraordinary, potentially inducing qualities such as the perfect efficiency of superconductivity even at room temperature. But these subatomic transformations are infamously ...
Condensed Matter
May 10, 2016
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Jupiter's intense northern and southern lights pulse independently of each other according to new UCL-led research using ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra X-ray observatories.
Space Exploration
Oct 30, 2017
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An international team of scientists led by the University of Sheffield have discovered previously undetected observational evidence of frequent energetic wave pulses the size of the UK, transporting energy from the solar ...
Space Exploration
Aug 5, 2019
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Magnetic properties of materials underlie technologies from old-fashioned recording tape to modern hard drives, and scientists are constantly pushing to develop new uses from magnetic behavior. Recently, researchers at MIT ...
Condensed Matter
Oct 26, 2016
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Predicting or worrying about disasters is a popular pastime. But we tend to take notice when somebody with money at stake becomes concerned.
Other
Aug 11, 2014
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Modern life revolves around data, which means that we need new, fast, and energy-efficient methods to read and write data on our storage devices. Optical-based approaches, which use laser pulses to write data instead of magnets, ...
Condensed Matter
Jul 31, 2020
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Weapons detection technology being developed by McMaster researchers can't come soon enough for busy travelers.
Engineering
Feb 14, 2011
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Scientists from India and Portugal recreated solar turbulence on a tabletop using a high intensity ultrashort laser pulse to excite a hot, dense plasma and followed the evolution of the giant magnetic field generated by the ...
Plasma Physics
Jun 30, 2017
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