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Physicists Measure Ultrashort Bursts of Highly Energetic Electrons Using Electric Laser Fields

Physicists at LMU Munich and the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics measure the duration of energetic electron pulses using laser fields.

10 Dec 2013

Compact UV Photodetector with World's Highest Quantum Efficiency Developed at Northwestern University

Advance in ultraviolet detection technology could aid early missile detection, chemical and biological threat detection

10 Dec 2013

Ultralow-Field MRI Systems Utilize Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices for Low Magnetic Field Strength

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed prototype calibration tools for an experimental medical imaging technique that offers new advantages in diagnosing and monitoring of certain cancers and possibly other medical conditions.

9 Dec 2013

Time Travelers Could Possibly Copy Quantum Data from the Past

Popular television shows such as "Doctor Who" have brought the idea of time travel into the vernacular of popular culture. But problem of time travel is even more complicated than one might think. LSU's Mark Wilde has shown that it would theoretically be possible for time travelers to copy quantum data from the past.

9 Dec 2013

Simple Method to Reduce Coal into Graphene Quantum Dots

The prospect of turning coal into fluorescent particles may sound too good to be true, but the possibility exists, thanks to scientists at Rice University.

9 Dec 2013

Smaller Particle Impacts May be Serving up Miniscule Drops of Hot Quark-Gluon Plasma

Scientists designed and built the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory to create and study a form of matter that last existed a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, some 13.8 billion years ago. The early-universe matter is created when two beams of gold nuclei traveling close to the speed of light slam into one another.

9 Dec 2013

‘Creation and Observation of Novel Quantum Electronic Structures’ Facility Receives $4M Gift from Moore Foundation

A revolutionary instrument that will expedite the discovery of new, artificial forms of matter with unprecedented electronic and magnetic properties will be funded by a $4.13 million gift from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

9 Dec 2013

Intuition-Defying Quantum Interactions Help Organisms Gather Light to Fuel Growth

Sophisticated recent experiments with ultrashort laser pulses support the idea that intuition-defying quantum interactions between molecules help plants, algae, and some bacteria efficiently gather light to fuel their growth. But key details of nature's vital light-harvesting mechanisms remain obscure, and the exact role that quantum physics may play in understanding them is more subtle than was once thought, according to an Overview Article in the January issue of BioScience.

9 Dec 2013

Simple Way to Understand Interference of Intertwined Ordered Phases with Superconductivity

High-temperature superconductors exhibit a frustratingly varied catalog of odd behavior, such as electrons that arrange themselves into stripes or refuse to arrange themselves symmetrically around atoms. Now two physicists propose that such behaviors – and superconductivity itself – can all be traced to a single starting point, and they explain why there are so many variations.

9 Dec 2013

Nonlinear Light-Generating Zero-Index Metamaterial Holds Promise for Quantum Computing

The Information Age will get a major upgrade with the arrival of quantum processors many times faster and more powerful than today's supercomputers.

6 Dec 2013

Giant Cosmic Accelerator Discovered Above the Earth

Newly released research in Nature Communications from the University of Alberta has identified the existence of a giant cosmic accelerator above the Earth.

6 Dec 2013

Newly Discovered Planet in Orbit Very Far from Parent Star

An international team of astronomers, led by a University of Arizona graduate student, has discovered the most distantly orbiting planet found to date around a single, sun-like star. It is the first exoplanet – a planet outside of our solar system – discovered at the UA.

6 Dec 2013

Creation of Two Entangled Quarks Simultaneously Gives Rise to a Wormhole

Quantum entanglement is one of the more bizarre theories to come out of the study of quantum mechanics — so strange, in fact, that Albert Einstein famously referred to it as “spooky action at a distance.”

6 Dec 2013

New Spinning Method to Measure Electron's Roundness

JILA researchers have developed a method of spinning electric and magnetic fields around trapped molecular ions to measure whether the ions' tiny electrons are truly round—research with major implications for future scientific understanding of the universe.

6 Dec 2013

Scientists Observe Quantum Gimbal

Swirling, persistent vortices can be created in superfluid helium. Generally no atoms sit at the eye of these miniature hurricanes.

6 Dec 2013

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Physicists Measure Ultrashort Bursts of Highly Energetic Electrons Using Electric Laser Fields

Compact UV Photodetector with World's Highest Quantum Efficiency Developed at Northwestern University

Ultralow-Field MRI Systems Utilize Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices for Low Magnetic Field Strength

Time Travelers Could Possibly Copy Quantum Data from the Past

Simple Method to Reduce Coal into Graphene Quantum Dots

Smaller Particle Impacts May be Serving up Miniscule Drops of Hot Quark-Gluon Plasma

‘Creation and Observation of Novel Quantum Electronic Structures’ Facility Receives $4M Gift from Moore Foundation

Intuition-Defying Quantum Interactions Help Organisms Gather Light to Fuel Growth

Simple Way to Understand Interference of Intertwined Ordered Phases with Superconductivity

Nonlinear Light-Generating Zero-Index Metamaterial Holds Promise for Quantum Computing

Giant Cosmic Accelerator Discovered Above the Earth

Newly Discovered Planet in Orbit Very Far from Parent Star

Creation of Two Entangled Quarks Simultaneously Gives Rise to a Wormhole

New Spinning Method to Measure Electron's Roundness

Scientists Observe Quantum Gimbal

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