Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Atomtronic Device Explores Quantum and Everyday World Boundaries

A new device that relies on flowing clouds of ultracold atoms promises potential tests of the intersection between the weirdness of the quantum world and the…

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Quantum Simulation Reveals Particle Behavior Near Black Holes

Fortunately, based on the equivalence between the metric of curved space-time in general relativity and the electromagnetic parameters in electromagnetic…

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ESA/NASA's solar orbiter returns first data, snaps closest pictures of the sun

Solar Orbiter is an international collaboration between the European Space Agency, or ESA, and NASA, to study our closest star, the Sun. Launched on Feb. 9,…

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The world’s lightest mirror

Garching, 16th of July 2020 – Physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) have engineered the lightest optical mirror imaginable. The novel…

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New Advances in Electron Optics for Solid-State Systems

Electrons can interfere in the same manner as water, acoustical or light waves do. When exploited in solid-state materials, such effects promise novel…

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Russian Scientists Unveil New Physical Paradox Discovery

Researchers from the Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) discovered and theoretically explained a new physical effect: amplitude of…

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Tiny Bubbles Propel 2D Material Innovations at Columbia

Researchers at Columbia Engineering and Montana State University report today that they have found that placing sufficient strain in a 2D material–tungsten…

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Scientists demonstrate a new experiment in the search for theorized 'neutrinoless' process

Nuclear physicists affiliated with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) played a leading role in analyzing data…

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High-Performance Data Storage via Magnetic Anisotropy

A team led by Prof. Matias Bargheer has now experimentally compared this fascinating phenomenon for the first time on different iron-platinum thin films….

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T-Ray Camera Speed Boosted: A Leap in Terahertz Imaging

Scientists are a step closer to developing a fast and cost effective camera that utilises terahertz radiation, potentially opening the opportunity for them to…

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Black Phosphorus Heterostructures Enhance Mid-Infrared Emission

BP has a thickness-dependent (0.3-2 eV) bandgap, and the bandgap size can be further tuned through introducing external electric field or chemical doping….

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Nobel Prize Innovations: Exploring Top Physics Breakthroughs

When the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 to David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz, they lauded the…

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Studying Steel: TU Graz Physicists Innovate on the ISS

For many years, the Institute of Experimental Physics at Graz University of Technology and the Styrian industrial company Böhler Edelstahl have been conducting…

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Observing Quantum Spin Liquid State in Novel Material

Aside from the deep understanding of the natural world that quantum physics theory offers, scientists worldwide are working tirelessly to bring forth a…

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How Machine Learning Enhances Particle Collision Insights

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has made many pivotal contributions to the construction and operation of the ATLAS…

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Rock 'n' control

The goal of “Femtochemistry” is to film and control chemical reactions with short flashes of light. Using consecutive laser pulses, atomic bonds can be excited…

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