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Pulsar Flips between Extreme States

A pulsar that is able, without warning, to dramatically change the way in which it shines has been identified by an international team including scientists from The University of Manchester.

25 Jan 2013

CQT Congratulates Winners of Quantum Shorts 2012 Film Competition

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Quantum Shorts 2012 film competition, organised by the Centre for Quantum Technologies in partnership with New Scientist magazine. The prizes were announced on newscientist.com on 23 January.

25 Jan 2013

Science China Publishes Special Issue on Sprintronics

We invited some Chinese experts and researchers in the field of spintronics to write a series of review articles in this special issue, in order to assist undergraduate, master's and doctoral students, as well as young researchers to understand this fast growing field. This issue was published in Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, 2013, 56(1): 1-246

24 Jan 2013

Black Hole Researcher Awarded Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the American Astronomical Society (AAS) are pleased to announce that astrophysicist Rachel Somerville, Ph.D., has been selected as the 2013 recipient of the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, which is given annually to recognize outstanding work in the field.

24 Jan 2013

Novel Method to Produce Molecular Magnets for Quantum Computers

An international team of researchers has found a new method of producing molecular magnets. Their thin layer systems made of cobalt and an organic material could pave the way for more powerful storage media as well as faster and more energy-efficient processors for information processing. The results of this research have been published in the current issue of the renowned journal Nature (DOI: 10.1038/nature11719).

24 Jan 2013

Professor Jörg Schmiedmayer to Study Physics of Non-Equilibrium Phenomena in Quantum Systems

With his research on quantum states in the realm between order and disorder, Professor Jörg Schmiedmayer's work has raised quite a stir; ultra cold atom clouds with a high degree of order approach a disordered thermal equilibrium.

23 Jan 2013

Researchers Confirm Drop in Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Temperature

Astronomers have put the Big bang theory through a tough new test - by measuring the temperature of the universe when it was half as old as it is now.

23 Jan 2013

Quantum Mechanical Simulation Methods Employed to Study Binding Properties of Metal Nanoparticles

The strong binding of gold on electronically modified calcium oxide can now be understood in detail.

23 Jan 2013

Swedish Solar Telescope Detects Alfvén Waves in Sun's Corona

UT Arlington physics professor Zdzislaw E. Musielak has been awarded a three-year, $301,339 National Science Foundation grant to investigate Alfvén waves in the Sun, a phenomenon vital to understanding Earth's nearest star.

23 Jan 2013

NSF’s VLA Provides More Clues on the Manatee Nebula

A new view of a 20,000-year old supernova remnant demonstrates the upgraded imaging power of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and provides more clues to the history of this giant cloud that resembles a beloved endangered species, the Florida Manatee.

19 Jan 2013