Optical control over topological Chern number in moiré materials
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Bandwidth-tuned Mott transition and superconductivity in moiré WSe2
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Unprecedented measurement reveals quantum speed beyond human understanding
Saturday Night Fever: you may remember the dance performed by John Travolta and Karen-Lynn Gorney to the Bee…
Constraints on axion dark matter by distributed intercity quantum sensors
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Low-power integrated optical amplification through second-harmonic resonance
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Observation of a superfluid-to-insulator transition of bilayer excitons
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Optical control of integer and fractional Chern insulators
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The Amazing Maser | Hackaday
While it has become a word, laser used to be an acronym: “light amplification by stimulated emission of…
Exposing life’s limits with dimensionless numbers
A crude device for quantification shows how diverse aspects of distantly related organisms reflect the interplay of the…
Physicists Say They May Have Found a Portal to a Fifth Dimension Where Dark Matter Could Be Hiding
A group of researchers from Spain and Germany believe that dark matter could be made of fermions that…
‘Scars’ in the cosmos Left From the Early Universe Could Enable Us to Travel Through Time
A decades-old idea is quietly regaining attention in theoretical physics: ancient structures embedded in the universe’s fabric could…
Our Universe has light not by chance but by necessity
Light is one aspect of the Universe that, for most people, holds a deep and noticeable value in…