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Physicists Successfully Generate Single Color Quantum Light Particles for Quantum Information Applications

Physicists at the University of Basel have been successful in generating photons - the quantum particles of light – with only one color. This is useful for quantum information. The scientists have actively stabilized the wavelength of the photons emitted by a semiconductor thereby neutralizing the charge noise in the semiconductor.

5 Nov 2013

Kepler Space Telescope Helps Estimate Potentially Habitable Planets

NASA’s Kepler space telescope, now crippled and its four-year mission at an end, nevertheless provided enough data to answer its main research question: How many of the 200 billion stars in our galaxy have potentially habitable planets?

5 Nov 2013

Quantum Theory and Relativity Enable Quantum Cryptography with Complete Security

Breakthrough guarantees “unconditional” security of information by harnessing quantum theory and relativity, and has been successfully demonstrated on a global scale for the first time.

5 Nov 2013

Researchers Observe Critical Ultrafast Processes in Diamond Defects Using 2D Electronic Spectroscopy

From supersensitive detections of magnetic fields to quantum information processing, the key to a number of highly promising advanced technologies may lie in one of the most common defects in diamonds. Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have taken an important step towards unlocking this key with the first ever detailed look at critical ultrafast processes in these diamond defects.

5 Nov 2013

Novel Spectroscopic Technique Helps Understand How Superconductivity Arises in Metals

An EPFL team of researchers has used a novel spectroscopic technique to understand how superconductivity arises in a metal.

5 Nov 2013

Highly Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Finishes First Run

A US team with a highly sensitive dark matter detector has just finished its first run. It has found nothing, and that is still big news.

4 Nov 2013

Particle Physicists Find Proverbial Needle in a Haystack

Particle physicists from the international ZEUS collaboration have found the proverbial needle in a haystack. They identified a mere 15 Z0 bosons in over 500 million collision events at DESY’s former electron–proton accelerator HERA. Z0 particles are carriers of the weak nuclear force, one of four fundamental forces in the universe. Although Z0 bosons have been intensely studied at other particle accelerators, they have never been directly observed in electron–proton collisions before. Z0 production is the rarest process ever measured at HERA.

4 Nov 2013

Top Female Particle Physicist Recognized with Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour

The LHC accelerator is running on ‘woman power’, such is a saying at CERN. One of the great top female researchers is the particle physicist Fabiola Gianotti, who for four years has been the head of one of the two large international research groups responsible for detecting the Higgs particle in the ATLAS experiment on 4 July 2012. Fabiola Gianotti has been awarded the Niels Bohr Institute’s Medal of Honour 2013.

4 Nov 2013

Physicists Posit a Theory for Why Scientific Theories Work

Cornell physicists have figured out why science works. Or rather, they’ve posited a theory for why scientific theories work – a meta theory.

4 Nov 2013

Researchers Observe Extremely Rare Decay of Bs Meson Into Two Muons

Researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute have observed for the first time the extremely rare decay of the Bs meson into two muons. They have determined its decay frequency with sufficient accuracy using data collected by the CMS detector at CERN. Their result agrees with the predictions of the standard model of particle physics.

4 Nov 2013

Quasar Light Method for Measuring Cosmic Distances Wins Lundbeck Foundation Research Prize

Darach Watson has been awarded the Lundbeck Foundation Research Prize for Young Scientists for his outstanding and innovative research in astrophysics, where he has developed a groundbreaking method for measuring distances in the cosmos using the light from distant quasars. The result was selected by Physics World as one of the year’s most important breakthroughs in physics.

4 Nov 2013

TU Vienna Sets New World Record for Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser

Terahertz waves are invisible, but incredibly useful; they can penetrate many materials which are opaque to visible light and they are perfect for detecting a variety of molecules. Terahertz radiation can be produced using tiny quantum cascade lasers, only a few millimetres wide. This special kind of lasers consists of tailor made semiconductor layers on a nanometer scale.

31 Oct 2013

Texas A&M Theoretical Physicist Selected for Alexander von Humboldt Professorship

In response to an application submitted by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), theoretical physicist Professor Jairo Sinova from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, USA has been selected for an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, one of the most eminent and highest endowed research posts in Germany.

31 Oct 2013

Most Precise Measurement of Matter-Antimatter Asymmetries in Charm Particles

Manchester scientists working at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) have reported the world’s most precise measurement of the difference between matter and antimatter – known as CP violation – during the decay of charm particles.

31 Oct 2013

BSI’s MIIPS Technology Used to Study Quantum Mechanical Effects Behind Photosynthesis

Biophotonic Solutions Inc. (BSI), the world leader in automated laser pulse compression, announces that its "MIIPS" laser pulse characterization and compression technology was used in a two-dimensional (2D) electronic spectroscopy setup for photosynthesis experiments by researchers at the University of Chicago (UChicago).

31 Oct 2013

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Physicists Successfully Generate Single Color Quantum Light Particles for Quantum Information Applications

Kepler Space Telescope Helps Estimate Potentially Habitable Planets

Quantum Theory and Relativity Enable Quantum Cryptography with Complete Security

Researchers Observe Critical Ultrafast Processes in Diamond Defects Using 2D Electronic Spectroscopy

Novel Spectroscopic Technique Helps Understand How Superconductivity Arises in Metals

Highly Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Finishes First Run

Particle Physicists Find Proverbial Needle in a Haystack

Top Female Particle Physicist Recognized with Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour

Physicists Posit a Theory for Why Scientific Theories Work

Researchers Observe Extremely Rare Decay of Bs Meson Into Two Muons

Quasar Light Method for Measuring Cosmic Distances Wins Lundbeck Foundation Research Prize

TU Vienna Sets New World Record for Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser

Texas A&M Theoretical Physicist Selected for Alexander von Humboldt Professorship

Most Precise Measurement of Matter-Antimatter Asymmetries in Charm Particles

BSI’s MIIPS Technology Used to Study Quantum Mechanical Effects Behind Photosynthesis

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