Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Shows “Extreme Negative Polarization”. What Does That Mean?
A team of astronomers have presented the first polarimetric observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, finding that it has…
A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness
If there’s one law of physics that seems easy to grasp, it’s the second law of thermodynamics: Heat…
Magnetic imaging under high pressure with a spin-based quantum sensor integrated in a van der Waals heterostructure
Principle of the experiment We start by studying how the optical and spin properties of \({{{\rm{V}}}}_{{{\rm{B}}}}^{-}\) centers in…
The effect of non-stoichiometry in Sb2Se3 films on their phonon and electronic properties in the infrared range
First principle calculations of electron and phonon properties of SbxSey films The calculated dielectric permittivities ε∞ (electronic contribution)…
Moon Missions Could Finally Reveal the Secrets of Dark Matter
Dark matter is hidden from our view making it difficult to study. Despite making up roughly 80 percent…
Setting Bounds On SETI – Universe Today
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has a data scale problem. There are just too many places to…
What Lies Within? New Image From a Mysterious Galaxy Asks Big Questions
A new image of galaxy OJ 287 reveals for the first time the sharply curved, ribbon-like structure of…
Observation of quantized vortex in atomic Bose–Einstein condensate at Dirac point with emergent spin–orbit coupling
Lv, B. Q., Qian, T. & Ding, H. Experimental perspective on three-dimensional topological semimetals. Rev. Mod. Phys. 93,…
Absence of orbital current torque in Ta/ferromagnet bilayers
Liu, L. et al. Spin-torque switching with the giant spin Hall effect of tantalum. Science 336, 555 (2012).…
Tunable unconventional spin orbit torque magnetization dynamics in van der Waals heterostructures
We investigated TaIrTe4/Fe3GaTe2 vdW heterostructures (Fig. 1a)19 due to their promising properties, anticipating that their combination could yield contemporary…
Physicists tighten the net on elusive dark matter
“The UCSB Physics Department has a long history of devising searches for dark matter, starting with one of the…
Towards terahertz nanomechanics | Nature Communications
Pawar, A. Y., Sonawane, D. D., Erande, K. B. & Derle, D. V. Terahertz technology and its applications.…