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Study Reveals Unique Quantum Characteristics of Quantum Cheshire Cat

Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have achieved a non-contacting exchange of the polarization of two photons to unravel the exclusive quantum properties of the “Quantum Cheshire Cat.”

19 Jun 2020

Scientists Develop New Method for Detecting Black Hole Mergers

Every year, 2 million black hole mergers are missed – but now scientists have worked out how to detect them, revealing a lost 8 billion light years of universe evolution.

19 Jun 2020

New Quantum Mechanics-Based Study of Electron-Hole Clusters

In solid materials, when an electron changes position without another to fill its place, a positively charged 'hole' can appear which is attracted to the original electron.

19 Jun 2020

Study Aims to Develop New Accurate Models of Nuclear Phenomena

Five Michigan State University researchers from the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and the Department of Statistics and Probability are participating in a new $3.7 million National Science Foundation project to advance nuclear physics experiments.

19 Jun 2020

Gamma-Ray Emission from Quasars Extends Along Jets of Plasma

An international team of more than 200 researchers from 13 countries has demonstrated that the emission of very high-energy gamma-rays from quasars—galaxies with a highly energetic nucleus—is not focused in the region close to their central black hole but extends over several thousand light-years across jets of plasma.

18 Jun 2020

New Theory Offers Comprehensive Insights into Bose-Einstein Condensates

Bose-Einstein condensates are often described as the fifth state of matter: At extremely low temperatures, gas atoms behave like a single particle.

18 Jun 2020

New Method to Optimize Fusion Energy by Controlling Edge Localized Modes

All efforts to replicate in tokamak fusion facilities the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars must cope with a constant problem -- transient heat bursts that can halt fusion reactions and damage the doughnut-shaped tokamaks.

18 Jun 2020

Researchers Detect Fast Radio Bursts from Unknown Source Outside Milky Way

A team of astronomers, including researchers at MIT, has picked up on a curious, repeating rhythm of fast radio bursts emanating from an unknown source outside our galaxy, 500 million light years away.

18 Jun 2020

Most Sensitive Dark Matter Experiment Shows Surprising Excess of Events

Scientists from the international XENON collaboration, an international experimental group including the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo; the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo; the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University; the Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University; and the Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, announced today that data from their XENON1T, the world's most sensitive dark matter experiment, show a surprising excess of events.

18 Jun 2020

New Study Paves Way for Solving Reactor Antineutrino Flux Problems

Joint effort of the nuclear theory group at the University of Jyvaskyla and the international collaborative EXO-200 experiment paves the way for solving the reactor antineutrino flux problems.

18 Jun 2020