Atomic Physics

Half-life of xenon-124 is one trillion times longer than age of universeCredit: XENON1T TROY, N.Y. -- How do you observe a process that takes more than one trillion times longer than the age of the universe? The XENON Collaboration…
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Credit: (Image: Xenon Collaboration) Around 1500 meters deep in the Italian Gran Sasso mountains is the underground laboratory LNGS (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso), in which scientists search for dark matter particles in a lab…
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Mechanically stretched carbon nanotubes extract heat efficiently and could be used to cool flexible electronic devices, for example The use of solid-state refrigerators to cool appliances and electronic devices is a possible technological…
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Credit: University of Otago By breaking with conventionality, University of Otago physicists have opened up new research and technology opportunities involving the basic building block of the world - atoms. In a study, just published…
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Credit: Uni Innsbruck Supersolidity is a paradoxical state where the matter is both crystallized and superfluid. Predicted 50 years ago, such a counter-intuitive phase, featuring rather antithetic properties, has been long searched in…
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Credit: Georgia Tech / Ella Maru studios work for hire / media handout To a non-physicist, an "atomic beam collimator" may sound like a phaser firing mystical particles. That might not be the worst metaphor to introduce a technology that…
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For years, researchers have pursued a strange phenomenon: When you hit an ultra-thin magnet with a laser, it suddenly de-magnetizes. Imagine the magnet on your refrigerator falling off. Now, scientists at CU Boulder are digging into how…
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Credit: Elle Starkman Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have discovered valuable information about how electrically charged gas known as "plasma" flows at the edge inside…
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A new type of light-emitting diode has been developed at TU Wien. Light is produced from the radiative decay of exciton complexes in layers of just a few atoms thickness.Credit: TU Wien When particles bond in free space, they…
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Quantum localization bounds Trotter errors in digital quantum simulationCredit: IQOQI Innsbruck/Harald Ritsch Quantum computers promise to solve certain computational problems exponentially faster than any classical machine. "A…
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Credit: Nicole Kelly/Michigan Tech Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are promising for quantum computing and future electronics. Now, researchers can convert metallic gold into semiconductor and customize the material atom-by-atom on…
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Scientists have discovered a new state of physical matter in which atoms can exist as both solid and liquid simultaneously. Until now, the atoms in physical material were understood to exist typically in one of three states - solid,…
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Credit: University of Jyväskyla The research group was succesful in testing modular neutron spectrometer (MONSTER) at JYFL-ACCLAB. The beta decay of this exotic isotope is followed immediately by the emission of neutrons, a…
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Credit: Mark Brown Trapping single atoms is a bit like herding cats, which makes researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder expert feline wranglers. In a new study, a team led by physicist Cindy Regal showed that it could organize…
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