MIT scientists finally see hidden quantum “jiggling” inside superconductors
The kind of light used to examine a material can reveal very different details. Visible light shows what’s…
Bistable superlattice switching in a quantum spin Hall insulator
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Magnetic resonance control of spin-correlated radical pair dynamics in vivo
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Why Scientists Are Calling This Laser Experiment a Historic First
For decades, scientists studying laser-assisted electron scattering, a technique known as LAES, have relied exclusively on linearly polarized…
This May Be the World’s First Quantum Battery
According to physicist Paul Davies, a tried-and-true “quantum” device exploits the odd rules of quantum mechanics to deliver…
Astronomers Witness Monster Black Hole Firing Cosmic Bullets Into Galaxy!
The XRISM spacecraft has captured the dramatic awakening of a supermassive black hole, IRAS 05189-2524, as it fires…
Higgs Boson was UK triumph, but British physics faces ‘catastrophic’ cuts
“We always had the money for these projects,” he told me. “I do not understand how we ended…
Single-shot, reference-less computational wavefront sensing for complex optical fields
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How the strange quantum world becomes the reality we see
Quantum physics allows particles to exist in many possible states at the same time. But in the world…
A strange twist in the universe’s oldest light may be bigger than we thought
Researchers investigating a mysterious cosmic phenomenon called cosmic birefringence have created a new approach to reduce uncertainty in…
Origin of strange metallicity in a d-orbital kagome metal
In quantum materials, Coulomb interactions can cause two types of effects. In the first, phases with spontaneously broken…
Bose–Hubbard simulator with long-range hopping
Combescot, M. & Shiau, S. Y. Excitons and Cooper Pairs: Two Composite Bosons in Many-Body Physics (Oxford Univ.…