Atomic Physics

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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Scientists have visualised the electronic structure in a microelectronic device for the first time, opening up opportunities for finely-tuned high performance electronic devices.Credit: Nelson Yeung/Nick Hine/Paul Nguyen/David Cobden …
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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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Three professors receive Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers Three UC Santa Barbara junior faculty members have been awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Spencer Smith,…
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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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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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Credit: HOU Jie A five-year collaborative study by Chinese and Canadian scientists has produced a theoretical model via computer simulation to predict properties of hydrogen nanobubbles in metal. The international team was composed of…
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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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Credit: Burrus/NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have upgraded their compact atomic gyroscope to enable multitasking measurement capabilities and measure its performance, important steps toward…
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A new model could demonstrate quantum supremacy on hardware already available todayCredit: University of Innsbruck The queen problem is a mathematical task, which already had the great mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss occupied, but for…
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UC Riverside-led team identifies dark trions as the next carrier of quantum informationCredit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Move aside, electrons; it's time to make way for the trion. A research team led by…
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Princeton astrophysicists are closing in on the Hubble constantCredit: Video by Ore Gottlieb and Ehud Nakar, Tel Aviv University Exactly how fast is the universe expanding? Scientists are still not completely sure, but a…
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Scientists developed multifunctional metal alloys that emit and absorb heat at the same time and change their size and volume under the influence of a magnetic fieldCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Scientists…
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Credit: Matthew R. Henry By energizing precursor molecules using a tiny, high-energy supersonic jet of inert gas, researchers have dramatically accelerated the fabrication of nanometer scale structures. The rapid additive manufacturing…
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