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Revolutionary Research may Help Reduce Cost of Accelerator Technologies

An award of $22.5 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) has been given to a partnership of scientists led by Cornell University to advance the core understanding needed to transform the brightness of electron beams available to medicine, science, and industry.

21 Sep 2021

Physicists Explore Matter-Generating Collisions of Light to Guide Future Studies

Hot on the heels of proving an 87-year-old prediction that matter can be generated directly from light, Rice University physicists and their colleagues have detailed how that process may impact future studies of primordial plasma and physics beyond the Standard Model.

21 Sep 2021

Researchers Map a Galactic Wind for the First Time

The galactic winds produced by stellar explosions in galaxies enable them to receive and exchange matter with their external environment.

17 Sep 2021

Generating Chiral Valley-Polarized Light Could be the Future of Quantum Information Processing

Scientists have generated circularly polarized light and controlled its direction without using clunky magnets or very low temperatures.

15 Sep 2021

Experimental Observation of Higher-Order Topological Bound States in the Continuum

Diffusion of waves is a natural result in propagation, like sound, water, and light, while the localization of waves is an unconventional phenomenon in periodic media.

2 Sep 2021

Novel Scanning Tunneling Microscope with Magnetic Cooling to Analyze Quantum Effects

Scanning tunneling microscopes are capable of capturing images of materials with atomic precision and can be applied to control individual atoms or molecules.

1 Sep 2021

Developing a Simple Integrated Quantum Network with Basic Functionalities of Large Networks

"Optical quantum networks" form the basis for future technologies, like the quantum computer and the quantum internet.

31 Aug 2021

Metasurfaces Modulated with Laser or Electrical Pulses can Control All Properties of Photonic Qubits

A team of scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory proposes that modulated quantum metasurfaces can control all properties of photonic qubits, a breakthrough that could impact the fields of quantum information, communications, sensing and imaging, as well as energy and momentum harvesting.

26 Aug 2021

Novel Method Simplifies Ultra-Precise Adjustment for Quantum Optics Experiments

When individual atoms interact with each other, they often exhibit unusual behavior due to their quantum behavior.

26 Aug 2021

Researchers Develop Quantum Stopwatch that can Enhance Imaging Technology

Scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder have designed one of the most accurate stopwatches. Unlike the ones to record timings in the Olympics, this stopwatch is used for counting single photons, or the tiny packets of energy that form light.

25 Aug 2021