How Flocking Birds “Defy” One of Physics’ Most Fundamental Laws
Flocks of birds, bacteria and tissue cells: in some collective systems, the individual elements respond to only part…
Optical metasurfaces for general vision processing on the edge
Shanahan, M., McDonell, K. & Reynolds, L. Role play with large language models. Nature 623, 493–498 (2023). Article …
Visualizing the impact of quenched disorder on 2D electron Wigner solids
Chui, S. & Tanatar, B. Impurity effect on the two-dimensional-electron fluid-solid transition in zero field. Phys. Rev. Lett.…
A prototype differential atom interferometer for fundamental physics
Cooling sequence The cold-atom apparatus used in this experiment has previously been described in refs. 42,56. To prepare…
Scientists Say a New Universe Could Form Inside a Dying Star
An expanding mini-universe could counterbalance the collapsing matter of a star, thereby creating a stable gravastar. Credit: Daniel…
Probing picometre-scale interlayer deformations via hyperbolic polaritons
Kim, H., Uddin, S. Z., Higashitarumizu, N., Rabani, E. & Javey, A. Inhibited nonradiative decay at all exciton…
JUNO’s First Results Bring the Neutrino Mass Mystery Into Focus
A giant underground neutrino observatory in China has delivered its first major scientific result, achieving remarkably precise measurements…
‘A mixture from zero to infinity’: Physicists tried splitting a photon — and ended up with an improbable swarm of particles
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A 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer with all-to-all connectivity
Quantum operations The 1Q and 2Q gates are implemented with pairs of 515-nm laser beams separated by the…
Flexible cryogenic cables solve a challenge in quantum system development | MIT News
By harnessing the unique properties of quantum mechanics, scientists and engineers worldwide seek to enable systems with extraordinary…
In 1927 a Brisbane physics professor melted a lump of tar and sealed it in a funnel, and almost a century later that tar, stiff enough to shatter under a hammer, has dripped only nine times
In 1927, a physics professor in Brisbane named Thomas Parnell heated a lump of pitch, a black tar…
Sooner than expected? Useful quantum error correction promised for 2028.
Quantum computing news usually picks up near the end of the year, as companies try to provide evidence…