• Physics 18, 21
Researchers have identified why most climate models don’t match up with an observed cooling trend in the tropics.
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Cooling of Pacific Waters Tied to Winds from Global Warming
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Physics – Localizing Light
• Physics 18, s10
Simulations demonstrate that light can be confined within a scattering medium in a way similar to electrons in a disordered metal.
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Physics – Quantum Learning Made Efficient
• Physics 18, s17
An algorithm allows the states of certain quantum systems to be determined from data more quickly than was previously possible.
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Learning the state of a…
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CERN Physicists Search for Violation of Lorentz Symmetry in Top-Quark Pair Production
Physicists with the CMS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have tested whether top quarks adhere to Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity.
Installation of the CMS beam pipe. Image credit: CERN / CMS Collaboration.
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Quantum Milestones, 1923: Photons Are Real
• Physics 18, 18
Arthur Compton’s results convinced most skeptics that in some experiments, light can act like a stream of particles.
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Machine Learning Predicts Liquid–Gas Transition
• Physics 18, 17
Conventional theory has trouble predicting the conditions that will cause a liquid to boil, but a neural-network-based approach performs better.
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Transitions. Water is one… Continue Reading
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Quantum Refrigerator Keeps Qubits Cool
• Physics 18, 16
Physicists have demonstrated a quantum machine that could reduce errors in quantum computers by ensuring that the qubits they use remain in their initial state before a calculation starts.
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Bumpy Particles Take One Step to Become Glass
• Physics 18, s11
Roughing up the surfaces of particles in a colloidal system can smooth its transition into a glassy state.
For researchers studying the glass transition, a colloidal suspension sandwiched between…
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Robotic Vacuum Cleaner for Microplastics
Author(s): Katherine Wright
Seong Jim Kim and Myoung-Woon Moon of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology have developed a device that can “vacuum” up tiny pieces of plastic floating on the surface of a body of water.
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Noise Becomes a Quantum Ally
• Physics 18, s5
Noise is typically detrimental to quantum effects, but simulations suggest that it can boost entanglement under certain conditions.
In the quantum world, noise is usually seen as disruptive,…
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