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…
German Scientists Transmit Single Photons From a Plane to Earth for Ultra-Secure Communication
IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 German researchers successfully transmitted individual photons from a moving aircraft to a ground station.…
How Black Holes Produce Powerful Relativistic Jets
It is an established scientific fact that most galaxies in the Universe have a supermassive black hole (SMBH)…
Our team of physicists inadvertently generated the shortest X-ray pulses ever observed
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain X-ray beams aren’t used just by doctors to see inside your body and tell…