Using light to put a twist on electrons
Method with polarized light can create and measure nonsymmetrical states in a layered materialCredit: Ella Maru Studio Some molecules, including ...
Tag: Atomic/Molecular/Particle Physics
How big is the neutron?
Theoretical physicsCredit: RUB, Marquard The size of neutrons cannot be measured directly: it can only be determined from experiments involving ...
Breaking the temperature barrier in small-scale materials testing
Credit: Photo by Steph Adams CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers have demonstrated a new method for testing microscopic aeronautical materials at ...
Synthesizing a superatom: Opening doors to their use as substitutes for elemental atoms
Credit: Tokyo Tech Superatom is a name given to a cluster of atoms that seem to exhibit properties similar to ...
Design of the W7-X fusion device enables it to overcome obstacles
Credit: Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications. A key hurdle facing fusion devices called stellarators -- twisty facilities that seek to ...
A simple retrofit transforms electron microscopes into high-speed atom-scale cameras
Patented 'beam chopper' provides cost-effective way to investigate super-fast processes important for tomorrow's technologyCredit: N. Hanacek/NIST Researchers at the National ...
Going super small to get super strong metals
Credit: Zhou et al You can't see them, but most of the metals around you--coins, silverware, even the steel beams ...
Scientists predict state of matter that can conduct both electricity and energy perfectly
UChicago study addresses problem of generating and moving energy efficientlyCredit: University of Chicago Three scientists from the University of Chicago ...
Shaping the rings of molecules
Credit: Université de Montréal Macrocycles are molecules made of large rings of atoms. Despite being relatively big and flexible, the ...
10,000 times faster calculations of many-body quantum dynamics possible
Physicists have developed an extremely fast simulation technique to predict the time evolution of interacting electronsCredit: Niclas Schlünzen, AG Bonitz ...
Grabbing atoms
Otago physicists grab individual atoms in ground-breaking experimentCredit: University of Otago In a first for quantum physics, University of Otago ...
A spookily good sensor
A sensor using quantum entanglement can determine if a single magnetic excitation is present in a millimeter-sized sphere. This moves ...
Novel Quantum effect found: Spin-rotation coupling
It was predicted 30 years ago, now the effect was measured for the first time by scientists at TU Wien ...
Sussex researchers combine lasers and terahertz waves in camera that sees ‘unseen’ detail
Terahertz camera uses laser light patterns to 'see inside' objects -- Terahertz imaging can reveal tiny hidden features of living ...
Towards a sustainable future — Novel technology to measure energy conversion efficiency
Scientists formulate a new innovation that can measure thermal energy to understand more about the processes of energy-converting systems like ...
Light moves spins around
Credit: MBI Berlin Combining experiment and theory, researchers from the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy ...
New artificial neural network model bests MaxEnt in inverse problem example
New artificial neural network model may serve as a basis for solving inverse problemsCredit: @EPFL Numerical simulations, generally based on ...
Electrons in rapid motion
Credit: Graphic: AG Stienkemeier A team headed by Prof. Dr. Frank Stienkemeier and Dr. Lukas Bruder from the Institute of ...
Dartmouth’s Chenfeng Ke wins Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize
Credit: Photo: Eli Burakian/Dartmouth College HANOVER, N.H. - February 14, 2020 - Chenfeng Ke, an assistant professor of chemistry at ...
Polymers to the rescue! Saving cells from damaging ice
Ice can tear apart cells in cryo-storage; Polymers can save the dayCredit: University of Utah Cell therapies hold great promise ...
