Atomic/Molecular/Particle Physics

Credit: Fengyi Zhang Chemical manufacturers consume a massive amount of energy each year separating and refining feedstocks to make a wide variety of products including gasoline, plastics and food. In a bid to reduce the…
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Credit: Journal of Neuoscience Unique in its application of a mathematical model to understand how the brain transitions from consciousness to unconscious behavior, a study at The City College of New York's Benjamin Levich Institute…
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Researchers at Berkeley Lab have developed a tiny toolkit for scientists to study exotic quantum physicsCredit: Guorui Chen et al./Berkeley Lab Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley…
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Credit: UNSW Sydney A group of scientists led by 2018 Australian of the Year Professor Michelle Simmons have achieved the first two-qubit gate between atom qubits in silicon - a major milestone on the team's quest to build an atom-scale…
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A Columbia University study suggests residents not return to several uninhabited islands until areas are thoroughly cleaned and further assessed for safetyCredit: World Future Council Radiation levels in some regions of the Marshall…
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Metallic surfaces no longer protected as topological insulators become thinnerCredit: Lisa Potter/University of Utah Quantum computers promise to perform operations of great importance believed to be impossible for our technology today.…
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First enhancement of the particle detector at the South Pole is primarily aimed at investigating neutrino oscillationCredit: photo/©: Benjamin Eberhardt, NSF The South Pole IceCube neutrino telescope will get an upgrade:…
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Credit: IceCube/NSF The IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica is about to get a significant upgrade. This huge detector consists of 5,160 sensors embedded in a 1x1x1 km volume of glacial ice deep beneath the geographic South Pole.…
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Osaka University-led researchers make ultra-thin nanowires of Fe3O4, with a remarkable 'Verwey transition' from metal to insulator at low temperature--a highly sought-after property for nanoelectronicsCredit: Osaka University …
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Metamaterials are incorporated into conventional clothing to dramatically improve signal strength between electronic devices, allowing for new applicationsCredit: National University of Singapore Over the past decade, a major trend…
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Credit: Robert R. Alfano & Yury Budansky Hailed as a pioneer by Photonics Media for his previous discoveries of supercontinuum and Cr tunable lasers, City College of New York Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering Robert R.…
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Cerium pyrochlore is first to qualify as long-sought state of matterCredit: Tong Chen/Rice University HOUSTON -- (July 15, 2019) -- There's no known way to prove a three-dimensional "quantum spin liquid" exists, so Rice…
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Credit: S. Burrows/JILA The quantum logic clock--perhaps best known for showing you age faster if you stand on a stool--has climbed back to the leading performance echelons of the world's experimental atomic clocks.…
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Attosecond laser technique yields movies of chemical bond dissociationCredit: Yuki Kobayashi, UC Berkeley On bright summer days, the sunlight all around us is breaking bad by breaking bonds. Chemical bonds. Ultraviolet light shatters the…
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