New Device for Detecting Lightweight Dark Matter
August 20, 2025• Physics 18, s104 Superconducting sensors can detect single low-energy photons. Researchers have now used this…
Néel spin-orbit torque in antiferromagnetic quantum spin and anomalous Hall insulators
Formalism We extend the Kane-Mele model by including a collinear AFM order which is exchange coupled to the…
Exoplanets suffering from a plague of dark matter could turn into black holes – Physics World
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Entangled clocks may reveal where quantum physics and gravity meet
One of the deepest puzzles in modern science is how quantum mechanics and general relativity — the two…
Universal quantum gate set for Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill logical qubits
GKP code Here we give some background on GKP codes, highlighting some of the more salient features in…
Physicists discover a new proton magic number – Physics World
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‘Eye of Sauron’ blazar is source of a powerful cosmic jet
The Eye of Sauron is a striking image of the plasma jet in the blazar PKS 1424+240, seen…
Optical signatures of interlayer electron coherence in a bilayer semiconductor
Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are direct-gap semiconductors that can host optically bright excitons corresponding to Coulomb-bound electron–hole pairs. Due…
A lithography-free approach to polaritonic Luneburg lenses
Gradient indices from dielectric environment engineering The propagation of polaritons is significantly influenced by the surrounding dielectric environment,…
Watching Electron Dynamics Shape Chemical Reactions
Haiwang YongDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, US August 20, 2025•…
Laser-driven implosion could produce megatesla magnetic fields – Physics World
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Falling water forms beautiful fluted films
Using hollow tubes of varying diameters and high-speed imaging, KAUST researchers captured the hidden shapes of the thin…