Researchers uncover a new obstacle to effective accelerator beams
Credit: Gailing Yue High-energy ion beams -- laser-like beams of atomic particles fired through accelerators -- have applications that range ...
Tag: Atomic Physics
UV light may illuminate improvements for next generation electronic devices
Credit: Golap Kalita, Ph.D., Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan By adding one more layer of atoms to already infinitesimal semiconductors, ...
Breaking the symmetry in the quantum realm
Credit: images created by Guoyan Wang & Lei Chen For the first time, researchers have observed a break in a ...
NIST physicists ‘teleport’ logic operation between separated ions
Credit: NIST Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have teleported a computer circuit instruction known as ...
Scientists offer designer ‘big atoms’ on demand
Credit: Smalyukh lab In the not-so-distant future, researchers may be able to build atoms to your specifications with the click ...
Researchers introduce novel heat transport theory in quest for efficient thermoelectrics
Credit: Michele Simoncelli, EPFL NCCR MARVEL researchers have developed a novel microscopic theory that is able to describe heat transport ...
Scientists revisit the cold case of cold fusion
Four academic laboratories partner with Google to explore how materials science can help make fusion more accessibleCredit: Phil Schauer Scientists ...
Ultra-cold lithium atoms shedding light on superfluid formation
'Abrupt' onset of pairing points to best theories for describing ultra-cold Fermi gasesCredit: Sascha Hoinka, Swinburne University of Technology Abrupt ...
Colliding lasers double the energy of proton beams
Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology Researchers from Sweden's Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg present a ...
Scientists uncover exotic matter in the sun’s atmosphere
Credit: NASA/SDO. Scientists from Ireland and France today announced a major new finding about how matter behaves in the extreme ...
A light matter: Understanding the Raman dance of solids
Quantum interferometry reveals the chosen pathway of coherent phonon generationCredit: Tokyo Institute of Technology Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology ...
NIST team demonstrates heart of next-generation chip-scale atomic clock
Credit: Hummon/NIST Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and partners have demonstrated an experimental, next-generation atomic ...
Manipulating atoms one at a time with an electron beam
New method could be useful for building quantum sensors and computers CAMBRIDGE, MA -- The ultimate degree of control for ...
Magic numbers make nickel nucleus stronger
Researchers made magic with nickel, but this was no coin trickCredit: © 2019 Bajo-kanna - with permission Researchers provide the ...
Accelerating quantum technologies with materials processing at the atomic scale
Credit: Oxford University 'Quantum technologies' utilise the unique phenomena of quantum superposition and entanglement to encode and process information, with ...
At the frontiers of physics
Two UC Santa Barbara physics professors are elected to the National Academy of Sciences Two UC Santa Barbara physics professors ...
The evolution of skyrmions in multilayers and their topological Hall signature
Magnetic measurement images showing how the number of skyrmions in a nanomaterial varies with magnetic field strength. Magnetic skyrmions are ...
Quantum computing with graphene plasmons
Credit: © University of Vienna, created by Thomas Rögelsperger A novel material that consists of a single sheet of carbon ...
Nanoscale thermometers from diamond sparkles
A novel, non-invasive technique that uses quantum light to measure temperature at the nanoscale has been developed Being able to ...
Stickier than expected: Hydrogen binds to graphene in 10 femtoseconds
Bound for only ten quadrillionths of a secondCredit: Oliver Bünermann / Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry & University of ...