A Cosmic Noon Puzzle: Why Did Cosmic Noon Galaxies Emit So Many Cosmic Rays?
Answers to some of cosmology’s most pressing questions are obscured by simple dust. It concerns the Cosmic Noon,…
New Theory Points to the Universe’s Greatest Fireworks Show
Imagine the entire universe suddenly blazing with light in a flash that lasted just a brief moment in…
Unconventional scaling of the orbital Hall effect
Manchon, A. et al. Current-induced spin-orbit torques in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic systems. Rev. Mod. Phys. 91, 035004 (2019).…
Using Grover’s algorithm to efficiently prepare collective quantum states in optical cavities
Grover’s algorithm, a quantum algorithm for search, can be used to prepare entangled states of many qubits efficiently.…
Researchers hunt for mysterious dark matter particle with clever new trick
Black hole galaxies emit energy and light, including gamma rays (γ) (left panel). If axions exist, some of…
New Physics-Inspired Proof Probes the Borders of Disorder
Their techniques aren’t just promising for analyzing models of electron behavior like Anderson’s. The work also taps into…
Strange atomic vibration discovered may solve physics mystery
A cryogenic microscope that fits on a laboratory bench has now let scientists watch electrons shake graphene’s atoms…
Ask Ethan: Did life begin when the Universe was room temperature?
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
Peering Down Through Black Hole’s “Eye Of Sauron” Cosmic Jet Got Earth Hit By Record-Breaking Neutrinos
There is an absolutely incredible cosmic object called PKS 1424+240. It is a blazar, a supermassive black hole…
Ferri- and ferro-electric switching in spontaneously chiral polar liquid crystals
Materials Table 1 shows the chemical structures and phases transitions of the materials presented here. Details of chemical synthesis…
Researchers Simulate What a Black Hole “Shadow” Look Like
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) established a reputation worldwide in 2019 when it released the first-ever image of…
Scalable photonic quantum technologies | Nature Materials
Dowling, J. P. & Milburn, G. J. Quantum technology: the second quantum revolution. Philos. Trans. A Math. Phys.…