Raman quantum memory demonstrates near-unity performance
The team’s experimental setup. Credit: APS, Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/kbwj-md9n. Over the past decades, quantum physicists…
1,000 billion times the age of the universe: an atomic decay that defies imagination
In 2019, in a laboratory buried under an Italian mountain, an extraordinarily rare event was picked up by…
Christopher Ward C1 Bel Canto Lumière: When Luminescence Meets Acoustic Engineering
When a watch chimes on the hour, the sound should resonate with purpose. When it glows in the…
448-qubit milestone puts fault-tolerant quantum computing within reach
Researchers at Harvard, publishing in the journal Nature on Monday, have demonstrated a new quantum system that can…
The Physics of the Northern Lights
Neon lights are glass tubes containing neon or other gases. When an electric current is sent from one…
After I burned out, physics helped me understand what had happened to me – and to move on | Zahaan Bharmal
If the words “force equals mass times acceleration” are mildly triggering, I apologise. Newton’s second law of motion…
Machine Learning Discovers Quasars Acting as Lenses
Quasars acting as strong gravitational lenses are among the rarest finds in astronomy. Out of nearly 300,000 quasars…
HD⁺ ions cooled to 18 mK yield most precise vibrational-rotational spectra to date
Synergistically cooled Be⁺-HD⁺ ion crystal and molecular dynamics simulation. Credit: APM A research team from the Innovation Academy…
An Explanation For The JWST’s Puzzling Early Galaxies
The James Webb Space Telescope didn’t need much time to show us how wrong we were about the…
Electrical control of spin currents in graphene via ferroelectric switching achieved
Characteristics of the graphene/In2Se3 heterostructure transport device that shows the spin chirality switch. Credit: Martin Gmitra from the…
Physicists Discover Our Solar System May Be Breaking the Cosmic Speed Limit
Credit: Unsplash/Greg Rakozy. Our solar system is speeding through space much faster than previously thought, challenging the fundamental…
Controlling triple quantum dots in a zinc oxide semiconductor
(a) The schematic of the fabricated ZnO device. Two-dimensional electron gas is formed between (Mg, Zn)O and ZnO.…