Building a Quantum Computer, One Fragile Qubit at a Time
Practically all modern computers, from the cheap microcontroller in your dishwasher to high-tech hardware crunching numbers for artificial…
MIT physicists discover electrons rebuilding like ice inside a quantum material
A glass of ice water offers a familiar example of two phases existing at the same time. The…
Atomic-scale double-slit interferometry with a focused electron probe
Sample preparation and 4D-STEM A high-purity (99.999%), undoped, commercially available Si single crystal (Crystal Base Co., Ltd.) was…
Observation of conformal field theory spectra in a quantum simulator
Experimental setup A detailed description of our experimental setup has been given in previous works35,60,61. In short, we…
The Fastest Star in the Milky Way Will Test Relativity
When astronomers studying the Milky Way’s center found a group of stars orbiting the center very rapidly, it…
Physicists Think They’ve Discovered a New Type of Quantum Matter
Quantum mechanics is all about explaining the weirdest, most unlikely aspects of our reality, including oddities we might…
The physics of novel computation: beyond bits and chips to spikes and spins – Physics World
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A star spinning at 15,000 miles per second tests Einstein theory of relativity
The Milky Way galaxy is anchored by a supermassive black hole named Sagittarius A*, that has a mass…
Korean Researchers Identifies Cause of ‘Beat’ Signal in Topological Insulator Nanowires
Insider Brief Researchers from KRISS, GIST and Kongju National University identified the source of a beat signal in…
Tiny quantum engines reveal useful energy hiding in “waste heat”
What counts as heat, and what qualifies as useful work when a machine is made from only an…
Seven writers, four physicists, one room, lots of plushies – Physics World
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Fast radio bursts reveal that the universe’s ‘missing matter’ is found far from galaxies – Physics World
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