Magnetic field helps switch electronic states in quantum material
In the quantum realm, getting electrons to march to the same beat is famously difficult. But forcing them…
Phonon focusing at room temperature
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Quarks and qubits: how quantum computing could transform particle physics – Physics World
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Scientists Broke a 160-Year-Old Law of Physics to Create Programmable Heat
There are certain laws of physics that heat must follow. Take Kirchhoff’s law of thermal radiation, for example,…
Quantum computing at Manchester: from Ferranti to qubits
In February 1951, a machine the size of a room arrived at the University of Manchester. The Ferranti…
Gas vapors trigger reversible phase, color change in advanced fluids
Researchers have developed a reversible, vapor-controlled system capable of toggling the physical and optical traits of advanced fluids…
New superconducting magnets reach full power for HiLumi LHC upgrade
CERN has just upgraded the world’s largest particle accelerator after successfully powering a new generation of superconducting magnets…
Imaging of nanoscale polar textures in quantum paraelectric SrTiO3
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Quantum Gravity May Be Far Less Quantum Than Physicists Expected
Physicists have long assumed that uniting quantum mechanics with gravity would require spacetime itself to behave quantum mechanically.…
Quantinuum and SoftBank Corp. Publish Joint White Paper on Scaling Practical Quantum Computing Use Cases Toward the Fault-Tolerant Era
The companies have published a joint white paper mapping commercially relevant quantum computing use cases in quantum chemistry…
The Oh-My-God particle still defies explanation
On the evening of October 15, 1991, the University of Utah’s Fly’s Eye detector at Dugway Proving Ground…
John Bell and the most obscure journal in physics – Physics World
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