Meet Jainendra K. Jain: The first Indian-origin physicist to win the Wolf Prize and transform quantum physics |
In the world of theoretical physics, some ideas solve a problem. Others reshape an entire field. Jainendra K.…
What if Time Isn’t Fundamental? Physicists Just Tested the Idea in the Lab
A new quantum experiment suggests that time may emerge from the internal dynamics of a system rather than…
Jainendra Jain: A tram crash, Jaipur Foot and a TV-break idea that changed physics: Rajasthan-born Jainendra Jain wins Wolf Prize | Mumbai News
MUMBAI: For nearly four decades, physicists across the world have relied on a deceptively simple idea proposed by…
Physicists Create a New Kind of Schrödinger’s Cat State From Exotic Quantum Building Blocks
Reconstructed Wigner function of a superposition of two trisqueezed states. Its sixfold rotational symmetry and regions of Wigner…
Physicists Created an Entirely New Species of Schrödinger’s Cat
In an iconic thought experiment, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger imagined a cat that could be dead or alive—a…
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…
Meet Harish-Chandra: The forgotten Indian mathematician who corrected a Nobel laureate and transformed modern physics |
Some scientists make discoveries. Others create entirely new ways of understanding the universe. Harish-Chandra belonged to the latter…
What is Time? This Scientist Built a Miniature Universe to Find Out
The nature of time has long puzzled scientists, and now one researcher at the University of Birmingham has…
Atomic clocks may be powerful enough to detect the quantum fabric of time
Time feels familiar. It marks every moment of daily life, from the ticking of a wall clock to…
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…
Quantum coherent beating in polar disubphthalocyanine-fullerene cocrystals for ultrafast photothermal conversion
Sun, L. et al. Creating organic functional materials beyond chemical bond synthesis by organic cocrystal engineering. J. Am.…
Crystalline symmetry breaking enables directional light emission in quantum dots
Dai, X. et al. Solution-processed, high-performance light-emitting diodes based on quantum dots. Nature 515, 96–99 (2014). Article ADS …