The surprise discovery that one of the lightest elements in the Universe can bind to iron under high pressure to form iron helide means we may have misunderstood the chemistry making up the profoundest depths of our planet.
That’s because it…
Category: 4. Physics
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Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays are Produced in Neutron Star Mergers, Physicist Says
Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays are the highest-energy particles in the Universe, whose energies are more than a million times what can be achieved by humans.
Professor Farrar proposes that binary neutron star mergers are the source of all or…
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Quantum Milestones, 1959: Ghostly Influence of Magnetic Field
• Physics 18, 48
Aharonov and Bohm proposed a scenario in which quantum particles experience electromagnetic effects even though there is no field in their immediate vicinity.
Physics Today 62, 38 (2009)/AIP
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Superconducting Quantum Computing Beyond 100 Qubits
• Physics 18, 45
A new high-performance quantum processor boasts 105 superconducting qubits and rivals Google’s acclaimed…
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Powering the future — ultrathin films are revolutionizing electrical conductivity
What if your electronic devices could adapt on the fly to temperature, pressure, or impact? Thanks to a new breakthrough in downsizing quantum materials, that idea is becoming a reality.
In an article published this month in Applied Physics…
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New Measurements of a Charmed Baryon
• Physics 18, s16
Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider have measured the spin parity of a charm-quark-hosting particle, offering a new test of theoretical models.
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Physics – Imaging Quantum Waves
• Physics 18, 46
A new imaging technique can show the wave-like behavior of unconfined quantum particles.
Quantum spreading. The expansion of a single-atom wave packet when released from a trap into free space, as… Continue Reading
CERN Physicists Observe Production of Weak Boson Triplets
Physicists with the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have announced the first observation of VVZ production — a rare combination of three massive vector bosons.
A three-vector-boson event recorded by ATLAS, with one W…
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New ocelot chip makes strides in quantum computing
Scientists based at the AWS Center for Quantum Computing on Caltech’s campus have made a leap forward in figuring out how to suppress errors in quantum computers, a pesky problem that continues to be the greatest hurdle to building the machines…
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Unraveling how a ‘magnetic twist’ induces one-way electric flow
Researchers at Tohoku University, the University of Manchester, and Osaka University have made a breakthrough that has the potential to ignite the development of next-gen chiral information technology.
Chirality is a property of materials where…
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