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New Scheme to Efficiently Generate Near-Single-Cycle Mid-Infrared Pulses in Plasmas

The invention of chirped pulse amplification technique by Strickland and Mourou in 1985 has boosted the peak power of ultrashort laser pulses to an unprecedented level, which have found broad applications in fundamental science, industry and medicine.

27 May 2020

Exploring Dynamical Behaviors of Helium-Methane Compound Under Planetary Conditions

The inner mantles of icy giant planets such as Uranus and Neptune are mainly composed by water, ammonia and methane, while their atmospheres are made of hydrogen and helium.

27 May 2020

Next-Generation Laser Facilities Could Lead to a New Era for Studying Plasmas

The subject of the 2018 Nobel Prize in physics, chirped pulse amplification is a technique that increases the strength of laser pulses in many of today's highest-powered research lasers.

27 May 2020

A New Experiment to Demonstrate the Chirality-Dependent Optical Lateral Force

Light carrying photon momentum can push and pull microparticles through momentum exchange. This momentum exchange progress generates optical forces, either attracts (conventional optical tweezers), pushes (radiation force) or pulls (pulling force) microparticles.

27 May 2020

Quantum Simulators of Gauge Theory to Study Fundamental Forces of Nature

To simulate in a laboratory what happens in particle accelerators has been an ambitious goal in the study of the fundamental forces of nature pursued by high-energy physicists for many years.

27 May 2020

Researchers Use Trapped Ions to Demonstrate a Quantum Random Walk

Researchers at the Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Biology at Osaka University used trapped ions to demonstrate the spreading of vibrational quanta as part of a quantum random walk.

27 May 2020

New Class of Cosmic Explosions Discovered

Astronomers have found two objects that, added to a strange object discovered in 2018, constitute a new class of cosmic explosions.

27 May 2020

Study Offers New Understanding of Plasma Edge Heat Loss in Tokamaks

The presence of blobs in plasma needed for fusion reactions could cause great damage.

27 May 2020

Researchers Unravel Exotic Quantum Properties of Magnetite

An international group of researchers has discovered unusual quantum properties that were concealed in magnetite—the oldest magnetic material known to human beings.

27 May 2020