Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

UCF Team Develops Highly Efficient Quantum Cascade Laser

A team of UCF researchers has produced the most efficient quantum cascade laser ever designed – and done it in a way that makes the lasers easier to…

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Physicists develop world's first artificial cell-like spheres from natural proteins

They immediately arrange themselves into tightly packed structures at the interface between water and glass or between water and air,' explains Karin Jacobs….

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Nanowires Enhance Atomic Force Microscopes for Precision Sensing

Nanowires are extremely tiny filamentary crystals which are built-up molecule by molecule from various materials and which are now being very actively studied…

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Diamonds aren't forever: Sandia, Harvard team create first quantum computer bridge

“People have already built small quantum computers,” says Sandia researcher Ryan Camacho. “Maybe the first useful one won't be a single giant quantum computer…

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New Advances in Superconductivity: Harvard’s Groundbreaking Research

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have made a discovery that could lay the foundation for quantum…

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Nanowires Enhance Atomic Force Microscopes for Precision Sensing

Nanowires are extremely tiny filamentary crystals which are built-up molecule by molecule from various materials and which are now being very actively studied…

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A team of physicists dispels Rayleigh's curse

An ideal optical system would resolve a point perfectly as a point. However, due to the wave nature of light, diffraction occurs, caused by the limiting edges…

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Waterloo Experiment Achieves Strongest Light-Matter Coupling

The results appear in the paper, “Ultrastrong coupling of a single artificial atom to an electromagnetic continuum in the nonperturbative regime,” published in

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Simulations show how to turn graphene's defects into assets

For a two-dimensional, one-atom-thick material like graphene, defects such as small cracks or holes can make a big difference in performance. Usually, these…

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Kaiserslautern physicists observe diffusion of individual atoms in light bath

Diffusion is a universal physical phenomenon, describing the motion of particles in their particular environment, whether solid, liquid or gaseous. The first…

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Real-Time Observation of Quasiparticles in Quantum Systems

The concept of quasiparticles is a powerful tool to describe processes in many-body quantum systems, such as solid-state materials. For example, when an…

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Understanding White Dwarf Detonations and Type Ia Supernovae

“Type Ia supernovae are extremely important objects in physics, best known for their role in revealing that the expansion of the universe is accelerating,”…

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First Observation of Sun-Like Magnetic Cycle on Another Star

An international team of scientists led by the University of Göttingen has observed a Sun-like magnetic cycle on another planet for the first time. The Sun’s…

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BELA: Swiss Laser Altimeter Set for Mercury Mission

BELA (BepiColombo Laser Altimeter) has been developed by a Swiss-German-Spanish team led by the University of Bern. The instrument is designed to measure the…

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Spiral Arms: Insights Beyond Galaxies from Global Research Team

An international team led by Laura Pérez, an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn, also…

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Single-Atom Correlated Magnets: A Breakthrough in Physics

Solid state physics offers a rich variety of intriguing phenomena, several of which are not yet fully understood. Experiments with fermionic atoms in optical…

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