After Decades of Mystery, Scientists Have Finally Mapped the Milky Way’s Magnetic Field
For decades, scientists have suspected the presence of a magnetic field that holds the Milky Way together, but…
how Chien-Shiung Wu missed out on the top award in physics – Physics World
Twenty-three nominations, yet no Nobel prize: how Chien-Shiung Wu missed out on the top award in physics –…
Physicists push thousands of atoms to a ‘Schrödinger’s cat’ state — bringing the quantum world closer to reality than ever before
Physicists have put thousands of atoms into a “Schrödinger’s cat” state — smashing the record for the most…
Co-propagating photonic topological interface states with hybridized pseudo-spins
Lu, L., Joannopoulos, J. D. & Soljačić, M. Topological photonics. Nat. Photonics 8, 821–829 (2014). Article ADS Google…
Dissipative solitons in mode-locked parity–time-symmetric lasers
Bender, C. M. & Boettcher, S. Real spectra in non-Hermitian Hamiltonians having \({\mathcal{P}}{\mathcal{T}}\) symmetry. Phys. Rev. Lett. 80,…
Physicists Converted Lead Into Gold
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Super-moiré spin textures in twisted two-dimensional antiferromagnets
Dietl, T. & Ohno, H. Dilute ferromagnetic semiconductors: physics and spintronic structures. Rev. Mod. Phys. 86, 187–251 (2014).…
Is the whole universe just a simulation?
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an…
Fully autonomous tuning of a spin qubit
Here we provide details of the experimental setup and the algorithmic choices made in this study. We begin…
The Baby Universe Really Was a Goopy Soup, Research Suggests
In the moments following the Big Bang, the extreme heat and pressure coerced matter into a goopy mix…
China’s first-of-a-kind ABF crystal creates most energised solid-state laser beam
The shortest wavelength of a laser beam generated from a crystal has been realised in a laboratory at…
This New Optical Crystal Could Power Next-Generation Quantum and Semiconductor Tools
Chinese researchers have developed a new type of optical crystal that addresses existing supply bottlenecks and opens new…