Physicists build circuit that generates clean, limitless power from graphene
Researchers harnessed the atomic motion of graphene to generate an electrical current that could lead to a chip to replace ...
Tag: Atomic Physics
Ultrasensitive microwave detector developed
Credit: Sampson Wilcox from MIT A joint international research team from POSTECH of South Korea, Raytheon BBN Technologies, Harvard University, ...
Timing the life of antimatter particles may lead to better cancer treatment
Japanese team aims to detect oxygen concentration in tumors using upgraded medical imaging scanCredit: Taiga Yamaya, CC-BY Experts in Japan ...
Stellar explosion in Earth’s proximity
Discovery of iron-60 and manganese-53 substantiates supernova 2.5 million years agoCredit: Dominik Koll / TUM When the brightness of the ...
Scientists studied nanoparticles embedded in silver-ion-exchanged glasses
Researchers have registered the formation of silver nanoparticles in an ion-exchanged glass as a result of infrared laser irradiation.Credit: Peter ...
Why disordered light-harvesting systems produce ordered outcomes
Credit: Ilias Patmanidis and Misha Pchenitchnikov Scientists typically prefer to work with ordered systems. However, a diverse team of physicists ...
New extreme ultraviolet facility opens for use
A new machine to probe the ultrafast motion of matter is the first of its kindCredit: © 2020 Springer Nature ...
Helium, a little atom for big physics
Credit: Authors Helium atom precision measurements and calculations have a history of nearly a century. In the 1960s, theorists discovered ...
Metal wires of carbon complete toolbox for carbon-based computers
Metallic carbon circuit element enables work on faster, efficient carbon-based transistorsCredit: UC Berkeley image by Daniel Rizzo Transistors based on ...
The return of the spin echo
A research team from Garching and Vienna discovered a remarkable echo effect - it offers exciting new possibilities for working ...
Scientists develop forecasting technique that could help advance quest for fusion energy
Credit: Elle Starkman / PPPL Office of Communications Bringing the power of the sun to Earth requires sound theory, good ...
Controlling ultrastrong light-matter coupling at room temperature
Credit: Illustration: Denis Baranov, Chalmers University of Technology Physicists at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, together with colleagues in ...
Physics: Collision movie with upgraded particle detector at CERN
Physicists at Goethe University lead one of the technical refurbishments of "ALICE" for researching quark-gluon plasmaCredit: Robert Münzer FRANKFURT. For ...
Microsoft and University of Copenhagen collaboration yields promising material for quantum computing
Credit: Charles Marcus Researchers at the Microsoft Quantum Materials Lab and the University of Copenhagen, working closely together, have succeeded ...
Skoltech research puts exciton-polaritons in their place with new artificial laser-built lattices
Credit: Pickup, L. et. al./Nature Communications Researchers at the Hybrid Photonics Laboratories in Skoltech and Southampton (UK), in collaboration with ...
CCNY engineer Xi Chen and partners create new shape-changing crystals
Credit: Image courtesy: Tong Wang Imagine harnessing evaporation as a source of energy or developing next generation actuators and artificial ...
Physicists “trick” photons into behaving like electrons using a “synthetic” magnetic field
Credit: University of Exeter Scientists have discovered an elegant way of manipulating light using a "synthetic" Lorentz force -- which ...
Infinite chains of hydrogen atoms have surprising properties, including a metallic phase
Scientists with the Flatiron Institute and the Simons Collaboration on the Many Electron Problem combined cutting-edge computational methods to probe ...
Harvard team uses laser to cool polyatomic molecule
Harvard researchers become first to cool polyatomic molecule using lightCredit: Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer After firing the lasers and bombarding ...
Vortex top-hats emerge in superfluids
New insight into the behaviour of rotating superfluidsCredit: FLEET An Australian-led study has provided new insight into the behaviour of ...