New quantum sensor could count individual photons and hunt dark matter
Researchers in Finland have achieved a major advance in ultra-sensitive measurement technology by detecting an amount of energy…
Nonlinear atomic tunnelling boosted by bright squeezed vacuum
Experimental details Both coherent and quantum light sources are pumped with the same femtosecond laser pulse (790 nm, 28 fs,…
A Physical Warp Drive Was Supposed to Be Impossible. Then These Scientists Found a Loophole.
In a surprising paper from 2021, scientists Alexey Bobrick and Gianni Martire suggested that they’d nailed down a…
Physicists confirm ‘negative time’ is real in mind-bending quantum experiment
When a beam of light passes through a cloud of atoms, photons (particles of light) sometimes appear to…
Electrically programmable circularly polarized three-dimensional display
Fattal, D. et al. A multi-directional backlight for a wide-angle, glasses-free three-dimensional display. Nature 495, 348–351 (2013). Article …
Mergers, Mayhem, and the Milky Way
Mergers are a part of a galaxy’s life, and the Milky Way is no exception. Without mergers, the…
New atomic clocks can be used to observe the ‘quantum superposition of time’
Every GPS satellite carries a correction baked into its software. Einstein’s relativity says clocks tick faster in weaker…
Molecular Qubit Achieves Single-Photon Quantum Control
Insider Brief Scientists demonstrated a single-molecule spin-photon interface using an organic carbene molecule embedded in a specially engineered…
Scientists Just Used Sunlight To Pull Off a Quantum Physics Feat Once Thought Impossible
Correlated photon pairs, generated via sunlight-pumped spontaneous parametric down-conversion in a nonlinear crystal, demonstrate ghost imaging. Credit: W.…
Electron beams rearrange atoms in a 3D crystal – Physics World
Electron beams rearrange atoms in a 3D crystal – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from…
Scientists found a giant magnetic “twist” hidden inside the Milky Way
For hundreds of years, astronomers have studied the night sky in an effort to understand the forces shaping…
Improving the stability of monolithic perovskite/silicon tandems against reverse-bias stress using graded dielectric layers
Liu, J. et al. Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with bilayer interface passivation. Nature 635, 596–603 (2024). Article Google…