Probing the quantum metric of 3D topological insulators
Hasan, M. Z. & Kane, C. L. Colloquium: Topological insulators. Rev. Mod. Phys. 82, 3045–3067 (2010). Article CAS …
Supermassive Black Holes Can Render Exoplanets Uninhabitable at Great Distances
The thinking around exoplanet habitability is mostly concerned with a planet’s distance from its star. Too close, and…
Entangled photons open up potential applications of anti-scattering optics – Physics World
Entangled photons open up potential applications of anti-scattering optics – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more…
Is Dust the Best Thing in the Universe? Part 3: Tiny Chemistry Labs
(This is Part 3 of a series on cosmic dust. Read Part 1 and Part 2 first.) But…
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…
Oxygen-centred planar orbitals in the electronic structure and spin-density-wave reconstruction of multilayer nickelates
Bednorz, J. G. & Müller, K. A. Possible high Tc superconductivity in the Ba–La–Cu–O system. Z. Phys. B…
Infleqtion Reports New Advances in Neutral-Atom Quantum Computing
Insider Brief Infleqtion announced multiple advances in neutral-atom quantum computing spanning software, hardware, atom transport, and gate fidelity…
Negative time could be real as light appears to exit atoms before entry
Physicists have just uncovered fresh evidence for a bizarre quantum phenomenon called negative time, where photons appear to…
High-precision laser spectroscopy confirms proton is smaller than expected, at 0.84 fm
Physicists at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) have reinforced a measurement that runs counter to decades…
Quantum Dynamics Advance Overturns Claim of ‘Quantum Supremacy,’ Opens New Research Directions
Insider Brief Researchers at the Simons Foundation’s Center for Computational Quantum Physics and collaborators at Boston University reported…
The lives of black holes, from birth to death
Of all the strange and spectacular things in outer space, nothing is stranger or more spectacular than black…
Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies Could Unlock Secrets of the Early Universe
(A) Dark matter distribution in our neighborhood in the Universe, the so-called Local Group of galaxies. The two…