Rock ‘n’ control
Göttingen physicists use oscillations of atoms to control a phase transitionCredit: Dr Murat Sivis The goal of "Femtochemistry" is to ...
Tag: Atomic Physics
Towards lasers powerful enough to investigate a new kind of physics
An international team of researchers has demonstrated an innovative technique for increasing the intensity of lasersCredit: AIP Publishing In a ...
Researchers develop computational model to build better capacitors
Credit: Doug Irving, NC State University Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a computational model that helps users ...
Building a harder diamond
Scientists at the University of Tsukuba use computer calculations to propose a new way to rearrange the carbon atoms in ...
Mathematical noodling leads to new insights into an old fusion problem
Credit: Pamela Serai A challenge to creating fusion energy on Earth is trapping the charged gas known as plasma that ...
New materials of perovskite challenge the chemical intuition
Credit: Changqing Jin, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences High-pressure materials science has taken off over the last couple ...
Rice lab’s bright idea is pure gold
Physicists see surprisingly strong light, high heat from nanogaps between plasmonic electrodesCredit: Illustration by Longji Cui and Yunxuan Zhu/Rice University ...
Developing new techniques to improve atomic force microscopy
Credit: Image courtesy the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and ...
Imaging magnetic instabilities using laser accelerated protons
An international team of researchers highlighted two variants of Weibel's instabilityCredit: David Tordeux The magnetic structures resulting from a plasma ...
Introducing a new isotope: Mendelevium-244
Berkeley Lab-led team creates a new, lighter form of the element mendelevium in experiments at the 88-Inch CyclotronCredit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley ...
New design for ‘optical ruler’ could revolutionize clocks, telescopes, telecommunications
Credit: NIST Just as a meter stick with hundreds of tick marks can be used to measure distances with great ...
Graphene smart textiles developed for heat adaptive clothing
Credit: The University of Manchester New research on the two-dimensional (2D) material graphene has allowed researchers to create smart adaptive ...
Thinking small: New ideas in the search for dark matter
Physicists propose a new table-top experiment for detecting dark matterCredit: NASA, ESA, M.J. Jee and H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University) ...
Borrowing from robotics, scientists automate mapping of quantum systems
Understanding the character of hardware errors helps stabilise the technologyCredit: University of Sydney Scientists at the University of Sydney have ...