A new type of "quasiparticle" theorized by Caltech's Gil Refael, a professor of theoretical physics and condensed matter theory, could help improve the efficiency of a wide range of photonic devices—technologies, such as ...
Quantum Physics
Oct 7, 2015
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Quasiparticles can be used to explain physical phenomena in solid bodies even though they are not actual physical particles. Physicists in Innsbruck have now realized quasiparticles in a quantum system and observed quantum ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 9, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Scientists at Yale have confirmed a 50-year-old, previously untested theoretical prediction in physics and improved the energy storage time of a quantum switch by several orders of magnitude. They report their ...
Quantum Physics
Apr 16, 2014
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JILA physicists used an ultrafast laser and help from German theorists to discover a new semiconductor quasiparticle—a handful of smaller particles that briefly condense into a liquid-like droplet.
General Physics
Feb 26, 2014
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By studying three layers of graphene -- sheets of honeycomb-arrayed carbon atoms -- stacked in a particular way, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered ...
Nanophysics
Oct 19, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A physics research team from the University of St Andrews and Cornell University in the USA has managed to 'photograph' the traces left by orbiting electrons in a special oxide material, and their observations ...
General Physics
Oct 23, 2009
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