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New Discovery May Help Develop Classification Scheme for Quantum Criticality

Quantum criticality, the strange electronic state that may be intimately related to high-temperature superconductivity, is notoriously difficult to study. But a new discovery of “quantum critical points” could allow physicists to develop a classification scheme for quantum criticality — the first step toward a broader explanation.

5 Jun 2014

New Technique in Detecting Single Atoms in Optical Lattices Wins Otto Hahn Medal 2013

For his excellent doctoral thesis, the young physicist Manuel Endres has been awarded with the Otto Hahn Medal 2013. Since 1978 the Max Planck Society presents this honour annually to junior scientists for groundbreaking scientific achievements connected to their doctoral thesis. The award is intended to encourage highly talented people to decide for a career in fundamental research.

5 Jun 2014

Magnetic Fields Play an Impressive Role in Dynamics of Supermassive Black Holes

Analysis of radio waves from black holes shows long-neglected magnetic fields have an unexpected presence

5 Jun 2014

Ultraprecise Atomic Clock Installed at Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array Operations Site

Scientists recently upgraded the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) by installing an ultraprecise atomic clock at ALMA’s Array Operations Site, home to the observatory’s supercomputing correlator. This upgrade will eventually allow ALMA to synchronize with a worldwide network of radio astronomy facilities collectively known as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT).

5 Jun 2014

Progress Report on Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay

Two years ago researchers began using a tank of liquid xenon installed more than 2,000 feet deep in a salt formation in the southeastern corner of New Mexico to study neutrinos.

5 Jun 2014

Asus NX500 Notebook PC Offers Superior Display with 3M Quantum Dot Enhancement Film

3M today announced that ASUS, a worldwide top-three consumer notebook vendor, will leverage the 3M™ Quantum Dot Enhancement Film (QDEF) for its new Asus NX500 Notebook PC.

5 Jun 2014

Super-Cold Cloud of Atoms Magnifies Effects of Quantum Mechanics

Researchers at Washington State University have used a super-cold cloud of atoms that behaves like a single atom to see a phenomenon predicted 60 years ago and witnessed only once since.

5 Jun 2014

New Observations of Violent Collisions Involving Clusters of Galaxies

Astronomers using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory have produced a spectacular image revealing new details of violent collisions involving at least four clusters of galaxies. Combined with an earlier image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the new observations show a complex region more than 5 billion light-years from Earth where the collisions are triggering a host of phenomena that scientists still are working to understand.

5 Jun 2014

New, Intriguing Images of High-Speed Plasma Flows and Eruptions on the Sun's Surface

Multi-wavelength observations of sunspots with the 1.6-meter telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) in California and aboard NASA's IRIS spacecraft have produced new and intriguing images of high-speed plasma flows and eruptions extending from the Sun's surface to the outermost layer of the solar atmosphere, the corona. Operated by New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), BBSO houses the largest ground-based telescope dedicated to solar research.

4 Jun 2014

Electric Charge of Antihydrogen Atoms Measured with Precision

In a paper published in the journal Nature Communications today, the ALPHA experiment at CERN1's Antiproton Decelerator (AD) reports a measurement of the electric charge of antihydrogen atoms, finding it to be compatible with zero to eight decimal places. Although this result comes as no surprise, since hydrogen atoms are electrically neutral, it is the first time that the charge of an antiatom has been measured to high precision.

4 Jun 2014

Blazars May Represent Different Sides of the Same Cosmic Coin

Astronomers studying two classes of black-hole-powered galaxies monitored by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found evidence that they represent different sides of the same cosmic coin. By unraveling how these objects, called blazars, are distributed throughout the universe, the scientists suggest that apparently distinctive properties defining each class more likely reflect a change in the way the galaxies extract energy from their central black holes.

4 Jun 2014

BOE to Employ QD Vision’s Optics in New Integrated ODM LCD Monitor Product Lines

QD Vision, Inc. and ShineOn Holding, Inc. today announced a new milestone for their collaborative partnership providing integrated LED and Color IQTM optical components. The two companies, which came together earlier this year to optimize total system performance in TV designs, are now making inroads into the booming China consumer display market.

4 Jun 2014

Festo’s Unique Suprachanger Application Concept to be Demonstrated at Automatica Fair

Festo demonstrates new application concept SupraChanger at Automatica fair

4 Jun 2014

Study on Skyrmions Receives $750,000 DOE Early Career Research Program Award

Greg Fuchs, assistant professor of applied and engineering physics, has received an Early Career Research Program award from the Department of Energy Office of Science.

4 Jun 2014

Electrons in Bismuth Behave Differently to Free Electrons in Simple Metals

Time and again, even simple materials take physicists by surprise. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden have observed an electronic property in the metal bismuth which they expected only in significantly more complex materials.

4 Jun 2014

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New Discovery May Help Develop Classification Scheme for Quantum Criticality

New Technique in Detecting Single Atoms in Optical Lattices Wins Otto Hahn Medal 2013

Magnetic Fields Play an Impressive Role in Dynamics of Supermassive Black Holes

Ultraprecise Atomic Clock Installed at Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array Operations Site

Progress Report on Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay

Asus NX500 Notebook PC Offers Superior Display with 3M Quantum Dot Enhancement Film

Super-Cold Cloud of Atoms Magnifies Effects of Quantum Mechanics

New Observations of Violent Collisions Involving Clusters of Galaxies

New, Intriguing Images of High-Speed Plasma Flows and Eruptions on the Sun's Surface

Electric Charge of Antihydrogen Atoms Measured with Precision

Blazars May Represent Different Sides of the Same Cosmic Coin

BOE to Employ QD Vision’s Optics in New Integrated ODM LCD Monitor Product Lines

Festo’s Unique Suprachanger Application Concept to be Demonstrated at Automatica Fair

Study on Skyrmions Receives $750,000 DOE Early Career Research Program Award

Electrons in Bismuth Behave Differently to Free Electrons in Simple Metals

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