Prof. Yigal Talmi, founding figure of Israeli nuclear physics, dies at 101
Talmi was among the physicists who helped decipher the structure of the atomic nucleus, and theories and computational…
Detecting Helium Leaks With Sound In A Physics-Based Sensor
Helium is inert, which makes it useful in a lot of different industries. But helium’s colorless and odorless…
Terahertz microscope reveals the motion of superconducting electrons | MIT News
You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light you shine at it:…
Resolving intervalley gaps and many-body resonances in moiré superconductors
Park, J. M., Cao, Y., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T. & Jarillo-Herrero, P. Tunable strongly coupled superconductivity in magic-angle…
Record-breaking quantum simulator could unlock new materials
An artist’s representation of qubits in the Quantum Twins simulator Silicon Quantum Computing An unprecedently large quantum simulator…
Imaging a terahertz superfluid plasmon in a two-dimensional superconductor
Shimano, R. & Tsuji, N. Higgs mode in superconductors. Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys. 11, 103–124 (2020). Article …
Silicon Quantum Computing Introduces ‘Quantum Twins’ for Materials Simulation
Insider Brief Silicon Quantum Computing has launched Quantum Twins, an application-specific quantum simulator that uses atomically precise silicon…
Particle accelerator helps reveal lost 2,000-year-old Greek star map
Ancient Greek astronomers made important observations regarding the night sky long before the first telescope was invented in…
Large-scale analogue quantum simulation using atom dot arrays
Strongly correlated quantum states, ubiquitous in quantum systems with complex band topology and strong interactions, are one of…
‘Impossible’ Particle That Crashed into Earth With 100,000 Times the Energy of the LHC May Actually Be from an Exploding Black Hole
Illustration of exploading primordial black hole. Credit: ZME Science/AI-generated. In 2023, a subatomic particle smashed into the Mediterranean…
Scientists May Have Just Seen a Black Hole Explode, and It Could Change Everything
In 2023, the detection of an unusually high-energy neutrino puzzled scientists, as no known cosmic source could explain…
A new way to control light could boost future wireless tech
Researchers have built a new optical device that can produce two different vortex-shaped forms of light, one electric…