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Study Provides New Insights into High-Temperature Superconductivity

Researchers from Rice University, the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), and Kyoto University have provided new insights regarding striking resemblances between the electronic properties of a recently discovered iron-based high-temperature superconductor (HTS) and its copper-based counterparts.

22 Jun 2012

Researchers Increase Lifetime of Qubit to More Than One Second at Room Temperature

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Harvard University, and Caltech have succeeded in increasing the lifetime of a quantum bit (qubit) in a diamond crystal to over a second at room temperature. In earlier attempts, the storage time of this kind of qubit was only a few thousandths of a second.

From Max Planck Research Group Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics 20 Jun 2012

NIST Researchers Observe Hall Effect in Gas of Ultracold Atoms

The Hall effect has been observed for the very first time in a gas of ultracold atoms by researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This discovery will enable scientists to enhance their knowledge about the physics of the quantum Hall effect and superfluidity.

20 Jun 2012

Researchers Demonstrate New Method to Prove Existence of Hypothetical Axions

Daniel Grumiller and Gabriela Mocanu, researchers at the Vienna University of Technology, have devised a new technique to demonstrate the existence of theoretical ‘axions,’ which may encircle a black hole and extort energy from it. This may result in the emission of gravity waves, which can then be calculated.

19 Jun 2012

CERN Research Director Reports Results on Time of Flight of Neutrinos

On behalf of OPERA, LVD, ICARUS and Borexino located at Gran Sasso, Sergio Bertolucci, Research Director at CERN, has reported the results from CERN on a neutrino time of flight to the INFN Gran Sasso Laboratory, at the 25th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics in Kyoto.

12 Jun 2012

Stanford Physicists Create Novel Form of Condensed Matter

Within the exotic world of macroscopic quantum effects, where fluids flow uphill, wires conduct without electrical resistance and magnets levitate, there is an even stranger family of "unconventional" phenomena...

7 Jun 2012

Research Team Realize and Analyze Exotic Quasiparticle

In quantum physics physical processes in condensed matter and other many-body systems can often be described with quasiparticles. In Innsbruck, for the first time Rudolf Grimm’s team of physicists has succeeded in experimentally realizing a new quasiparticle - a repulsive polaron - in an ultracold quantum gas. The scientists have published their results in the online issue of the journal Nature.

24 May 2012

STRINGS 2012, The Annual String Theory Conference, Takes Place at LMU Munich in July

Hundreds of string theorists meet each year to discuss their research at an international conference. STRINGS 2012 takes place in Munich, and is organized jointly by LMU Munich, the Max-Planck Institute for Physics, the ...

23 May 2012

Innsbruck Researchers Create First Bose-Einstein Condensate of Erbium

Francesca Ferlaino’s research team at the University of Innsbruck is the first to successfully create a condensate of the exotic element erbium. The Innsbruck experimental physicists hold the world record in attaining the first Bose-Einstein condensates of different chemical elements.

22 May 2012

Advanced Spectroscopy Confirms Quantum Predictions for Behaviour of Water Molecules

Water is the most abundant and one of the most frequently studied substances on Earth, yet its geometry at the molecular level - the simple two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, and how they interact with other molecules, including other water - has remained somewhat of a mystery to chemists.

18 May 2012