Scientists Built A Tiny ‘Universe’ And Let Time Grow Inside It
The ‘cloud’ inside the glass cell is a magneto-optical trap of rubidium atoms at a temperature of ~0.0001…
Physicists Built Quantum States So Strange They Only Existed In Theory, Until Now
Reconstructed Wigner function of a superposition of two trisqueezed states. Its sixfold rotational symmetry and regions of Wigner…
Physicists catch spin handoff between crystal vibrations
The vibrations of atoms in a crystal generate one type of rotation, an intrinsic spin-like trait called angular…
What physics says about dying
A flame goes out, and something in the room shifts with it. Not because matter has vanished, but…
Scientists use ultrafast laser to flip materials into a different electronic state
A burst of invisible light can do more than illuminate a surface. In a new study, Michigan State…
New US laser technology could unlock 100,000-qubit quantum computers
Researchers in the US have developed a new technique that could allow quantum computers to scale to well…
Physicists Shatter Quantum Computing Record
In a Caltech lab, a computer screen showed thousands of tiny points of light—each one a single atom,…
New laser helps decode rare earth element samarium’s secret spectrum
Scientists in Germany have uncovered previously unknown properties of the rare Earth element samarium by developing a powerful…
Astronomers See Inside The Core of a Dying Star For the First Time, Confirm How Heavy Atoms Are Made
An illustration of the ‘extremely stripped’ supernova 2021yfj. Keck Observatory / Adam Makarenko Astronomers have glimpsed the inner structure…