Extreme pressure pushes honeycomb crystal toward quantum spin liquid, hinting at new qubit designs
Topologically protected quantum spin liquid under extreme pressure in diamond anvil cell. Honeycomb structure shown with frustrated and…
Spontaneous emission behaves contrary to predictions in photonic time crystals
Spontaneous emission decay rate (left) and spontaneous emission excitation rate (right) when a quantum emitter (or atom) is…
Parallel atom-photon entanglement paves way for future quantum networking
The researchers’ vision for parallelized networking with atom array processors using fiber, detector and BS arrays. Credit: The…
Dark matter detector succeeds in performing measurements with nearly no radioactive interference
The distillation plant ‘made in Münster’ for the dark matter experiment ‘XENONnT’ at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory…
Dark matter and dark energy may only be a cosmic illusion
Scenic View of Galaxy in Space. Credit: pexels.com For decades, astronomers have believed that dark matter and dark…
The ancestors of ostriches and emus were long-distance fliers. Here’s how we worked this out
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Aside from being a delight to watch, flight in birds is regarded by many…
Data from dark-energy observatories indicate universe may ‘end in a big crunch’ at 33 billion years old
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The universe is approaching the midpoint of its 33-billion-year lifespan, a Cornell physicist calculates…
Antarctic sea ice hits its third-lowest winter peak on record
Ice floating on the surface of the sea in the western Antarctic peninsula in 2016. Antarctica’s winter sea…
Potential smoking gun signature of supermassive dark stars found in JWST data
This image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope highlights the region of study by the JWST Advanced…
An invention is transforming the way scientists track genes
Professor Yunde Zhao dissects a RUBY flower of a thale cress (right, Arabidopsis thaliana), a small plant in…
Key steps towards the realization of a high-precision optical clock based on Ni¹²⁺
Schematic of the components involved in the paper. Precise calculations allow to estimate the transition frequency with unprecedented…
Collective Bloch oscillations observed in 1D Bose gas system
Motion of magnetic soliton in an atomic ring and creation of superfluid currents. Credit: G. Brochier. Bloch oscillations…