Plasma lens for focusing attosecond pulses
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Quadrature-dependent lattice dynamics of dissipative microcombs
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Physicists Create a Thermometer for Measuring ‘Quantumness’
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If there’s one law of physics that seems…
The sci-fi films that physicists love to watch — from Interstellar to Spider-Man
Nature has interviewed a multitude of physicists this year in celebration of the 100th birthday of quantum mechanics.…
Plasmon-enhanced ultralow-threshold solid-state triplet fusion upconversion
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Continuous terahertz band coverage through precise electron-beam tailoring in free-electron lasers
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6 Times Einstein Missed the Mark, but Still Changed Physics
Albert Einstein is undeniably one of the greatest names in physics. But Einstein, for all his contributions to…
Single-shot phase diversity wavefront sensing in deep turbulence via metasurface optics
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Scientists Gave a Quantum Computer a ‘Lie Detector Test’ and It Passed
The superconducting chip. Credit: Zhejiang University In a lab in Hangzhou, China, a small chip may have just…
US team achieves 99% fidelity in quantum communication breakthrough
In a significant step toward realizing the vision of quantum networks, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) research…
Thermodynamic limits surpassed with quantum energy-harvesting method
Japanese researchers have unveiled a breakthrough in energy harvesting that could redefine efficiency limits. By exploiting quantum states…
US team’s ytterbium breakthrough creates scalable quantum network
In a significant step toward realizing the vision of quantum networks, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) research…