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New Way to Assess the Performance of Quantum Devices

University of Sydney scientists have adapted methods from robotics and autonomous vehicles to efficiently evaluate the performance of quantum devices—a crucial process to help balance the emerging technologies.

17 Jun 2020

New Table-Top Experiment can Help Detect Dark Matter

Ever since the 1980s, scientists have been conducting experiments to look for particles that constitute dark matter, an imperceptible substance that spreads across the universe and the Milky Way galaxy.

17 Jun 2020

Supernova Machine Simulates the Splendid Aftermath of Cosmic Blast

Nestled in the constellation Taurus, a spectacle of swirling cosmic gases measuring half a dozen light years across glows in shades of emerald and auburn.

17 Jun 2020

Milky Way has Six Billion Earth-Like Planets

To be considered Earth-like, a planet must be rocky, roughly Earth-sized and orbiting Sun-like (G-type) stars.

17 Jun 2020

Researchers Perform In-Situ TEM Observation of Graphene Nanoribbons

Researchers at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) have successfully measured the current-voltage curve of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) that were suspended between two electrodes.

16 Jun 2020

New Quantum Phase Battery Could Help Advance Quantum Computing, Sensing

Batteries belongs to everyday life. A classical battery, the Volta´s pile, converts chemical energy into a voltage, which can power electronic circuits.

16 Jun 2020

Skyrmion Crystals in Cu2OSeO3 can be Melted by Varying Magnetic Field

The introduction of topology, a branch of mathematics focusing on the properties of "knots", into physics has inspired revolutionary concepts such as topological phases of matter and topological phase transitions, which results in the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016.

16 Jun 2020

Study Identifies Mechanism Behind Radio Wave Beams from Pulsars

When Jocelyn Bell first observed the emissions of a pulsar in 1967, the rhythmic pulses of radio waves so confounded astronomers that they considered whether the light could be signals sent by an alien civilization.

16 Jun 2020

New Technique to Manipulate Excitons in New and Useful Ways

Mixing and matching computational models of 2D materials led scientists at Rice University to the realization that excitons -- quasiparticles that exist when electrons and holes briefly bind -- can be manipulated in new and useful ways.

16 Jun 2020

New Technique to Control Magnons for Magnon-Based Information Processing

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have demonstrated a potentially new way to make switches inside a computer's processing chips, enabling them to use less energy and radiate less heat.

16 Jun 2020