Blink and you’ll miss it
Researchers use light to control high-speed chemical reactions in a new wayCredit: © 2019 Kato et al. Many natural and ...
Tag: Atomic Physics
Seeing clearly: Revised computer code accurately models an instability in fusion plasmas
Credit: Elle Starkman Subatomic particles zip around ring-shaped fusion machines known as tokamaks and sometimes merge, releasing large amounts of ...
NIST physicists create record-setting quantum motion
Credit: Burrus/NIST Showcasing precise control at the quantum level, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have ...
UTA physicist studying how extreme weather in space affects satellites
Solar windCredit: UT Arlington A physicist at The University of Texas at Arlington is developing a new scale to measure ...
Bridging the nanoscale gap: A deep look inside atomic switches
Credit: Manabu Kiguchi A team of researchers from Tokyo Institute of Technology has gained unprecedented insight into the inner workings ...
Heat flow through single molecules detected
Credit: OIST After several years of theorizing and experimenting, an international team of researchers including scientists at Okinawa Institute of ...
200 times faster than ever before: the speediest quantum operation yet
Credit: UNSW Sydney A group of scientists led by 2018 Australian of the Year Professor Michelle Simmons have achieved the ...
First-ever visualizations of electrical gating effects on electronic structure
Scientists have visualised the electronic structure in a microelectronic device for the first time, opening up opportunities for finely-tuned high ...
Radiation in parts of Marshall Islands is higher than Chernobyl
A Columbia University study suggests residents not return to several uninhabited islands until areas are thoroughly cleaned and further assessed ...
Early career high achievers
Three professors receive Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers Three UC Santa Barbara junior faculty members have been ...
Robert Alfano team identifies new ‘Majorana Photons’
Credit: Robert R. Alfano & Yury Budansky Hailed as a pioneer by Photonics Media for his previous discoveries of supercontinuum ...
NIST’s quantum logic clock returns to top performance
Credit: S. Burrows/JILA The quantum logic clock--perhaps best known for showing you age faster if you stand on a stool--has ...
Scientists create predictive model for hydrogen-nanovoid interaction in metals
Credit: HOU Jie A five-year collaborative study by Chinese and Canadian scientists has produced a theoretical model via computer simulation ...
What happens when you explode a chemical bond?
Attosecond laser technique yields movies of chemical bond dissociationCredit: Yuki Kobayashi, UC Berkeley On bright summer days, the sunlight all ...
NIST’s compact atomic gyroscope displays new twists
Credit: Burrus/NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have upgraded their compact atomic gyroscope to enable ...
Puzzling on a quantum chessboard
A new model could demonstrate quantum supremacy on hardware already available todayCredit: University of Innsbruck The queen problem is a ...
Physicists’ finding could revolutionize information transmission
UC Riverside-led team identifies dark trions as the next carrier of quantum informationCredit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- ...
Exactly how fast is the universe expanding?
Princeton astrophysicists are closing in on the Hubble constantCredit: Video by Ore Gottlieb and Ehud Nakar, Tel Aviv University Exactly ...
A new rare metals alloy can change shape in the magnetic field
Scientists developed multifunctional metal alloys that emit and absorb heat at the same time and change their size and volume ...
Tiny supersonic jet injector accelerates nanoscale additive manufacturing
Credit: Matthew R. Henry By energizing precursor molecules using a tiny, high-energy supersonic jet of inert gas, researchers have dramatically ...