Gigahertz-rate thin-film lithium niobate receiver for time-bin quantum communication
Device description and operating principle A conceptual device layout is shown in Fig. 1a. It consists of two…
The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has a mass of 4 million suns, and the entire solar system is orbiting it at 514,000 mph without anyone on Earth feeling a thing
The headline number for the object at the center of the Milky Way is four million solar masses,…
Why is rubber so resilient? – Physics World
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Schrödinger’s clock: Time could tick faster and slower at the same time
Few concepts in physics are as familiar, or as puzzling, as time itself. Einstein’s theory of relativity showed…
Electron-Ion Collider becomes first particle collider built with AI from day one
Five hundred thousand times per second, the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will record a collision. At that rate, machine…
A strange ripple in spacetime could be the first fingerprint of dark matter
Dark matter is believed to make up most of the matter in the universe, yet scientists still cannot…
Forget electrons, this breakthrough uses light-matter particles to power AI
Eighty years after the creation of ENIAC, the world’s first general-purpose electronic computer, researchers at the University of…
Meet the ghost particle: invisible, weightless and trillions of them pass through your body every second
In recent decades, scientists have turned their attention to an elusive ghost-like subatomic particle known as the neutrino.…
Did Chinese scientists simulate what could be the ‘end of the universe’?
If a certain tiny bubble suddenly appeared somewhere in the cosmos, physicists say, it could expand and erase…
Gazing Into the Past With TIME
The early Universe and its galaxies are a mysterious realm hidden behind time’s veil. The light that escapes…
Structural exciton localization drives efficient solid-state sensitized triplet fusion upconversion
Feng, J., Alves, J., de Clercq, D. M. & Schmidt, T. W. Photochemical upconversion. Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem.…
Earth’s magnetic field could be ‘ringing’ with dark matter – Physics World
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