In a fascinating dive into the strange world of quantum physics, scientists have shown that light can interact with itself in bizarre ways—creating ghost-like virtual particles that pop in and out of existence. This “light-on-light scattering”…
Category: 4. Physics
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Light Versus Light: The Secret Physics Battle That Could Rewrite the Rules
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MIT Just Proved Einstein Wrong in the Most Famous Quantum Experiment
MIT physicists have performed the most precise version of the famous double-slit experiment, using ultracold atoms and single photons to reveal the strange dual nature of light as both wave and particle. This quantum balancing act—long debated…
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An on-chip phased array for non-classical light
Theory
Consider a quantized electromagnetic field \(\hat{E}\) transmitted over free space to a phased array receiver. The field can be decomposed into positive and negative frequency components, \(\hat{E}={\hat{E}}^{+}+{\hat{E}}^{-}\), where
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Material analysis through X-ray attenuation decomposition in spectral computed tomography
Calculating (\(\mu _{PE},\mu _{CS}\))
In 1976 Alvarez and Macovski14 described that for energies relevant for medical imaging, the x-ray attenuation \(\mu\) for any material can be approximated as
$$\begin{aligned} \mu (Z,E) = a_{PE}(Z) \times…
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Elastic constants identification for laminated composites using laser doppler vibrometry and an inversion method based on legendre orthogonal polynomial expansion
Inversion framework for determining elastic constants
To determine the elastic constants of laminated composites, this study presents an inversion framework. First, a time–space wavefield of omnidirectional guided waves is acquired using laser…
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Optical fiber sensor based on Lossy-mode resonance for tamoxifen detection and sensing applications
FTIR spectrum analysis
Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy was employed to analyze the chemical composition and functional groups present in cerium dioxide and non-imprinted polymer nanoparticles32,33. As illustrated in Fig. 2a, the…
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Evidence of underlying structural similarities of amorphous materials
To guide the ABED experiment, we simulated ABED patterns from local atomic configurations of amorphous HfO2. For this purpose, we first prepared ten structural models of amorphous HfO2 with 324 atoms by ab-initio MD simulation and characterized…
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Isospectrally patterned lattices | Scientific Reports
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A versatile transfer printing technique through soap bubble
Soap bubble transfer printing
Figure 1b and Movie S1 (Supplementary Information) schematically illustrate the novel concept of the soap bubble transfer printing, featuring a common soap bubble as the stamp. The rigid and flexible electronics are…
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Characterization of joining copper rods by upset technique and investigating the effect of preheat treatment on the weld characteristics
The impact of power on the welding process
Generally, weld characteristics are considered as a function of welding time, welding power, applied pressure, and the heat dissipated in the weld for each welding position of the machine. In this method,…
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