What Happened to Those “Little Red Dots” Webb Observed?
When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began operations, one of its earliest surveys was of galaxies that…
New Low-Cost, Efficient Single-Photon Source for Powering Future Quantum Internet
Insider Brief Researchers at Tokyo University of Science have developed a fiber-coupled single-photon source that generates single photons…
Moving Abrikosov vortex lattices generate sub-40-nm magnons
Fabrication of the microwave nano-antenna The fabrication of the experimental system began with the deposition of a 40/5 nm…
Physicists rewrite 200-year-old principle to unlock atomic engines
A research team in Germany has achieved a stunning theoretical breakthrough that could reshape one of physics’ oldest…
Monopole-mediated light control of half skyrmion topology in nematic liquid crystals
Creation of topological monopole-antimonopole pairs in half skyrmions Topological defects, which are a necessary result of broken continuous…
Quantum radio antenna uses Rydberg states for sensitive, all-optical signal detection
Experimental setup for controlling the quantum radio antenna. Credit: Michal Parniak, University of Warsaw A team from the…
Old-school material could power quantum computing and cut data center energy use
a) Phase-field simulated values of the in-plane polarization, Px, as a function of temperature, reflecting the degree of…
Optically-biased Rydberg microwave receiver enabled by hybrid nonlinear interferometry
Comparison between superhet and optical-bias MW detection setupsConventional Rydberg superhet Let us start by recalling the standard atomic…
Mysterious glow in Milky Way could be evidence of dark matter
Normalized density projections of the bulges. The columns show dark matter, stellar, and quadratic dark matter densities, respectively.…
Sean Carroll: Can we ever escape the logic of a clockwork universe?
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Time crystals could power future quantum computers
A time crystal formed on top of a superfluid in ultracold conditions. Credit: Mikko Raskinen/Aalto University. A glittering…
Quantum mechanics trumps the second law of thermodynamics at the atomic scale
Two-oscillator quantum engine. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adw8462 Two physicists at the University of Stuttgart have proven…