29 April 2024

MIT engineers expand the capabilities of these ultrasensitive nanoscale detectors, with potential uses for biological sensing and quantum computing. With the ability to detect the most minute variations in magnetic or electrical fields, quantum sensors have enabled precision measurements in materials science and fundamental physics. However, these sensors have limited usefulness because they are only been ...
By DAVID L. CHANDLER, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY JULY 10, 2022

23 January 2024

Researchers in the Laboratory for Solid State Physics at ETH Zurich found evidence that bilayer graphene quantum dots may host a promising new type of quantum bit based on so-called valley states. In quantum computing, the question as to what physical system, and which degrees of freedom within that system, may be used to encode quantum bits of information – qubits, in short – is at the heart of many research projects carried out in physics and engineering laboratories.
By ETH ZURICH JANUARY 18, 2024

23 January 2024

This experimental milestone allows for the preservation of quantum information even when entanglement is fragile. For the first time, researchers from the Structured Light Laboratory (School of Physics) at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, led by Professor Andrew Forbes, in collaboration with string theorist Robert de Mello Koch from Huzhou University in China (previously from Wits University)...
By UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND JANUARY 16, 2024

10 May 2023

A team at the University of Portsmouth has achieved unprecedented precision in measurements through a method involving quantum interference and frequency-resolving sampling measurements. This breakthrough could enhance imaging of nanostructures and biological samples, and improve quantum-enhanced estimation in optical networks...
By UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH MAY 3, 2023

10 May 2023

Artist’s visualization of a laser striking atoms in an optical cavity. Scientists discovered a new phenomenon called “collectively induced transparency” (CIT) where groups of atoms cease to reflect light at certain frequencies. The team found this effect by confining ytterbium atoms in an optical cavity and exposing them to laser light. At certain frequencies, a transparency window emerged in which light bypassed the cavity unimpeded...
By CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MAY 1, 2023

04 May 2023

Researchers from FAU, the University of Rostock, and the University of Konstanz have precisely controlled electron emission from metals by superimposing two laser fields of different strengths and frequencies. This groundbreaking discovery could lead to new quantum mechanical insights and enable electronic circuits that are a million times faster than current technology. By superimposing two laser fields of different strengths and...
By FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG APRIL 26, 2023

22 February 2023

In a new breakthrough, researchers at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with Ruhr University Bochum, have solved a problem that has caused quantum researchers headaches for years. The researchers can now control two quantum light sources rather than one. Trivial as it may seem to those uninitiated in quantum, this colossal breakthrough allows researchers to create a phenomenon known as quantum mechanical entanglement. This, in...
By UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN FEBRUARY 19, 2023

07 June 2022

A material’s spins, depicted as red spheres, are probed by scattered neutrons. Applying an entanglement witness, such as the QFI calculation pictured, causes the neutrons to form a kind of quantum gauge. This gauge allows the researchers to distinguish between classical and quantum spin fluctuations...
PHYSICS NOVEMBER 14, 2021

06 June 2022

Unlike fictional laser swords, real laser beams do not interact with each other when they cross - unless the beams meet within a suitable material…
PHYSICS MAY 20, 2022

29 April 2024

Researchers have demonstrated a record-high laser pulse intensity of over 1023 W/cm2 using the petawatt laser at the Center for Relativistic Laser Science (CoReLS), Institute for Basic Science in the Republic of Korea. It took more than a decade to reach this laser intensity, which is ten times that reported by a team at the University of Michigan in 2004. These ultrahigh-intensity light pulses will enable...
Astrophysics Lasers Optics Popular The Optical Society By THE OPTICAL SOCIETY MAY 6, 2021

23 January 2024

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider are probing new particles beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics, aiming to unravel its limitations and foster advancements in technology. It seemed like the Standard Model of Particle Physics was complete with the discovery of the Higgs boson particle in 2012. The Standard Model is physicists’ current best explanation of the major building blocks of the universe and three out of four of the major...
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY JANUARY 15, 2024

23 January 2024

New research challenges the conventional wisdom regarding superconducting quantum transitions. Princeton physicists have discovered an abrupt change in quantum behavior while experimenting with a three-atom-thin insulator that can be easily switched into a superconductor. The research promises to enhance our understanding of quantum physics in solids in general and also propel the study of quantum condensed matter physics...
By TOM GARLINGHOUSE, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY JANUARY 15, 2024

10 May 2023

In the realm of computing, information is usually perceived as being represented by a binary system of ones and zeros. However, in our everyday lives, we use a decimal system consisting of ten digits to represent numbers. For instance, the number 9 in binary is represented as 1001, requiring four digits instead of just one in the decimal system.Today’s quantum computers have emerged from the binary system, but the...
By UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK APRIL 26, 2023

10 May 2023

Scientists have created two-dimensional photonic time crystals that amplify light, with potential applications in improving wireless communications and laser technology. Researchers have developed a way to create photonic time crystals and shown that these bizarre, artificial materials amplify the light that shines on them. These findings, described in a paper published in the journal Science Advances, could lead to more efficient and robust wireless communications...
By AALTO UNIVERSITY APRIL 24, 2023

16 May 2022

Zero-index metamaterials offer new insights into the foundations of quantum mechanics. In physics, as in life, it’s always good to look at things from different...
ФИЗИКА 3 МАЯ 2022

22 February 2023

The second law of thermodynamics is widely considered one of the most universally true physical laws. It dictates that the entropy, a measure of physical disorder, of any isolated system can never decrease over time. It adds an ‘arrow of time’ to everyday occurrences, determining which processes are reversible and which are not. It explains why an ice cube on a hot stove will always melt and why compressed gas will always escape its...
By UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM FEBRUARY 16, 2023

07 June 2022

This paper presents the theory of gravity reversal. No actual tests have been conducted or prototypes constructed to prove or disprove this theory...

06 June 2022

Physicists at EPFL, within a large European collaboration, have revised one of the fundamental laws that has been foundational to plasma and fusion research for…
PHYSICS MAY 17, 2022

29 April 2024

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago have made a breakthrough that should help pave the way for greatly improved control over the formation of vacancies in silicon carbide, a semiconductor. Semiconductors are the material behind the brains in cell phones, computers, medical equipment, and more. For those applications, the existence of atomic-scale defects ...
By ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY JANUARY 3, 2022

23 January 2024

An international study has revealed the triangular cluster structures within the carbon-12 nucleus, offering key insights into the origins and abundance of carbon in the Universe. Carbon-12: Key to Organic Chemistry and Life. The element carbon is critical to organic chemistry and life as we know it. The physics of its most common isotope, carbon-12, are extremely complex. Many experimental and theoretical ...
By U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
JANUARY 2, 2024

23 January 2024

Quark gluon plasma (QGP) is a unique state of matter produced by colliding heavy nuclei in laboratories, leading to the creation of a QGP fireball. This fireball undergoes expansion and cooling, eventually forming subatomic particles that are key to understanding QGP. New research using the maximum entropy principle has led to advancements in understanding the transition from QGP to hadronized states and identifying critical points in quantum...
By U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
JANUARY 1, 2024

10 May 2023

Researchers provide direct evidence that the magnetic properties of the novel icosahedral quasicrystals depend on the electrons-per-atom ratio. Professor Ryuji Tamura’s team at Tokyo University of Science synthesized a novel icosahedral quasicrystal (i QC) made of gold, gallium, and dysprosium. The new i QC exhibits tunable ferromagnetism and high phase purity, which allows for a more focused study of ferromagnetism in quasicrystals...
By TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE MAY 6, 2023

10 May 2023

Researchers have developed a method to retain the mechanical properties of 2D polymers called covalent organic frameworks (COFs) when stacked in multiple layers. By tweaking their molecular structure, the team created a lightweight material that is several times stronger than steel, preserving its 2D properties even in multilayered forms. Potential applications include filtration membranes and upgraded batteries. The research could also impact the design of ceramics and metals,...
By UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MAY 5, 2023

16 May 2022

A “beyond-quantum” equivalence principle for superposition and entanglement. Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) funded study found a novel connection between two weird quantum phenomena–superposition and entanglement–with...
ФИЗИКА 1 МАЯ 2022

20 Jule 2022

Scientists have succeeded for the first time in realizing a time crystal that spontaneously breaks continuous time translation symmetry. The researchers, from the Institute of Laser Physics at the University of Hamburg, reported their observation in a study published on June 9, 2022, in the journal Science...
PHYSICS JULY 3, 2022

07 June 2022

Spin chains in a quantum system undergo a collective twisting motion as the result of quasiparticles clustering together. Demonstrating this KPZ dynamics concept are pairs of neighboring spins, shown in red, pointing upward in contrast to their peers, in blue, which alternate directions. Credit: Michelle Lehman/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy...
By OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY NOVEMBER 14, 2021

06 June 2022

Electronic nematicity, thought to be an ingredient in high-temperature superconductivity, is primarily spin driven in FeSe finds a study in Nature Physics. Researchers from PSI’s…
PHYSICS MAY 19, 2022

23 January 2024

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was launched to orbit just two years ago, but already it's starting to redefine our view of the early Universe. CASSIOPEIA A. The expanding shells of debris from Cas A, an exploded star, or supernova. The main ring is about 15 light-years across. JUPITER. The largest planet in the Solar System, Jupiter, viewed in infrared light. The brightest features are at the highest altitudes – the tops of convective storm clouds.
1 January 2024 Science

22 February 2023

The world's first commercial satellite dedicated to monitoring carbon dioxide from orbit will launch later this year. It will be put up by the Canadian company GHGSat, which already flies six spacecraft tracking methane emissions. The new platform will use the same shortwave infrared sensor but be tuned to CO₂'s specific light signature in the atmosphere. The satellite will have a resolution at ground level of 25m, meaning it will be able to see major individual sources...
Published 31 January 2023 BBC Science

13 Desember 2022

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Washington in Seattle say they have succeeded in creating a two-dimensional magnet for the first time. An article about the discovery was published June 7 in the journal Nature. According to scientists, it has been experimentally proven that a compound called chromium triiodide is able to retain magnetic properties even when one atom thick...
8 June 2017

13 Desember 2022

Chinese physicists reported that they were able to teleport a photon from a ground station to a satellite in orbit, 1400 km from the laboratory. However, for most of us, the word "teleportation" evokes somewhat different, more exotic associations. Previously, it was mentioned exclusively in the context of science fiction - is it possible to say that now it has become a reality?..
17 Jule 2017

26 September 2022

The recently launched super space telescope James Webb has returned spectacular new imagery of Neptune. The observatory's infrared instruments highlight features not seen in such detail since the Voyager 2 probe flew past the planet in 1989. These include the rings and dust bands that encircle the ice giant. Scientists are also intrigued by the different cloud structures, which should tell them something novel about the workings...
By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent, Published 4 days ago

22 January 2023

A year from now, on 24 December, Nasa's Parker Solar Probe will race past the Sun at the astonishing speed of 195 km/s, or 435,000 mph. No human-made object will have moved so fast nor, indeed, got so close to our star - just 6.1 million km, or 3.8 million miles from the Sun's "surface". "We are basically almost landing on a star," said Parker project scientist Dr Nour Raouafi.
30 December 2023, BBC News

22 February 2023

A newly discovered comet will make its closest approach to our planet on Wednesday. Astronomers say the object's journey toward us took around 50,000 years. Photographs captured by astronomers show a distinct green hue around the body of the comet. But those expecting a brilliant streak of emerald in the sky will be disappointed. Its brightness is right at the threshold of what is visible to the naked eye. "You might have seen these reports "...
Published 1 February 2023, BBC News Climate and Science

13 Desember 2022

In a laboratory on the island of Palma, scientists create a pair of entangled photons (A and B), and then one of them is sent using a laser beam to another laboratory located on the neighboring island of Tenerife, 144 km away. Then a third photon (C) is connected to the case - the one that needs to be teleported - and forced to interact with one of the entangled particles...
15 August 2019

13 Desember 2022

The most mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon of this amazing microcosm is just the phenomenon of quantum entanglement. This is when two elementary particles that have the same origin are not only interconnected (in some completely inexplicable way), but also interdependent. Simply put, entangled particles can seem to "communicate" with each other and influence each other - even if there are hundreds and thousands of kilometers between them...
4 October 2022

26 September 2022

At the end of July, Google announced that its engineers managed to create a new state of matter inside a quantum computer - the so-called time crystal (or temporal crystal), the very existence of which seems to defy the fundamental laws of physics known to us ... Time crystals are set to play a pivotal role in building quantum computers so fast and powerful that they can solve tasks in minutes that would take millennia for today's processors...
19 August 2021

23 January 2024

A team of astronomers from Britain and Germany has discovered a new mysterious object in the Milky Way that is heavier than all known neutron stars and at the same time lighter than the lightest black holes. This object orbits around a millisecond pulsar (a pulsar with a rotation period in the range from 1 to 10 milliseconds) and is 40 thousand light years away from us. The researchers who discovered this object, from the University of...
21 января 2024

22 February 2023

A Lincolnshire seaside pier is being lit up at night with the help of a new mini wind turbine. One of the 6ft (2m) vertical turbines has been installed on Skegness Pier with another fitted on a factory roof in Spalding. They are able to capture wind from all irections without turning, making them low maintenance. Both are made by Norwegian company Ventum Dynamics, which is testing the technology with local councils. Cllr Steve Kirk from East Lindsey District Council said...
Published 21 February 2023

13 Desember 2022

The probe of the American space agency NASA crashed into the asteroid Dimorph. This is the first attempt of humanity to change the trajectory of a celestial body and work out the mechanism of planetary protection. The collision happened exactly at 23:14 GMT on Monday (2:14 Moscow time). The flight of the probe was broadcast live...
27 September 2022

13 Desember 2022

A group of American scientists led by Georgia Institute of Technology Research (GTRI) senior researcher Nicholas Guyse has developed a microchip that allows DNA to be written 100 times more information than conventional media, and besides, it can potentially be stored for thousands of years....
3 Desember 2021

26 September 2022

"Where did the universe come from? How do stars and planets form? And ultimately, this question is about is there life out there." These are the questions that Cardiff University physics and astronomy lecturer Dr Sarkar is hoping Webb will help answer. Together with Dr Nikku Madhusudhan, of Cambridge University, Dr Sarkar will analyse the atmosphere of the potentially life supporting planet K2-18b - 124 light-years away from Earth...
12 July 2022

04 May 2023

Scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) have discovered a new quantum state in one of the unusual materials. Such a quantum state and related phenomena have never been observed in other materials, and its essence lies in the fact that under the influence of an external magnetic field, the electrical conductivity of the material increases by a billion percent, no matter how fantastic it sounds...
6 марта 2023 | Новости науки и техники

04 May 2023

Spatial light modulator (SLM) is a general term describing devices that are used to modulate amplitude, phase, or polarization of light waves in space and time. HOLOEYE´s Spatial Light Modulator systems are based on translucent (LCD) or reflective (LCOS) liquid crystal microdisplays. The use of LC materials in SLMs is based on their optical and electrical anisotropy. A certain gray level represents a defined average voltage across the LC cell. This voltage leads to a variable tilt of the LC...

04 May 2023

Researchers from the University of Oxford took two diamond crystals, measuring 3 by 3 millimeters and about a millimeter thick. Both crystals were illuminated with short-term, about 100 femtoseconds, flashes of laser light. The same method is used when performing spectroscopy with ultrafast laser pumping (ultra fast pump probe spectroscopy). What then happened to the diamond crystals is quite difficult to describe in simple terms. Pulses of laser light caused chains of atoms in the diamond...
| 11 декабря 2011 | Новости науки и техники

22 February 2023

Neutron stars are one of the most unusual space objects. Possessing magnetic fields billions of times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field, and a huge value of matter density, these stars literally "break" the laws of physics in the space adjacent to them. And when two neutron stars meet, everything that happens becomes even more "wild". The collision of neutron stars gives rise to the so-called kilonova explosion, which is one of the...
| 21 02 2023 | Космос и Авиация

20 July 2022

Scientists at the University of Central Florida have developed and demonstrated a silicon optical link that combines two different multiplexing technologies. This, in turn, makes it possible to organize 40 independent channels in one beam of light, each of which can carry out independent data transmission, and the total transmission rate along this line is 400 GB per second…
13 июня 2022 | Электроника и полупроводники

06 June 2022

A team of researchers from Yale University and the University of Texas at Dallas have created a tiny quantum optical sensor that is about one-thousandth the size of a human hair. But, despite such a small size, this sensor has the widest possibilities, using the quantum properties of electrons, it is able to simultaneously measure the intensity, polarization and wavelength of light. The creation of such a universal sensor will allow in the future to make significant breakthroughs...
25 мая 2022 | Новости науки и техники

04 May 2023

When light passes through a medium with certain optical properties, it is not absorbed, but scattered, resulting in loss of image clarity of the original object. Such light-scattering media include clouds that create difficulties for ground-based astronomical instruments, tissues or liquids that prevent imaging and medical diagnostics inside living organisms....
| 17 марта 2023 | Новости науки и техники

04 May 2023

On the pages of our site, we recently talked about the fact that scientists continue to explore the phenomenon of quantum entanglement and even discover completely new types of it. Recall that this phenomenon consists in the invisible connection of two particles, acting at any distance, and any change in the quantum state of one particle leads to a synchronous change in the state of the second particle. This phenomenon is already...
| 11 января 2023 | Новости науки и техники

22 February 2023

Scientists from the University of Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute, Germany, have created so-called acoustic holograms that can be used to quickly assemble three-dimensional material objects. This technology can work both in air and in a liquid medium, and as a material for such a kind of three-dimensional printing, particles from various materials and even living cells can be used...
| 21 02 2023 | Новости науки и техники

06 June 2022

A group of researchers from Japan has become the owner of a new data transfer record, which amounted to 1.02 petabits per second. What's more, this record was achieved with fiber optic cables that are fully compatible with existing communications infrastructure. For reference, 1 petabit is equal to one million gigabits, which means that the transfer speed achieved is 100,000 times faster than the fastest Internet access available to ordinary consumers…
06:02 2022 | Информационные технологии

16 May 2022

The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has set a new record for long-distance wireless power transmission. The SCOPE-M experimental facility, deployed at the US Army Research Field in Maryland, provided microwave transmission of 1.6 kW of power over a distance of just over one kilometer...
19 апреля 2022 | Энергетика

16 May 2022

Very often, weight is the price that has to pay for an increase in the efficiency of bulletproof materials used to create individual means of protection. But researchers from the University of Wisconsin in Madison managed to create a new type of ultralight material, which is a "mat" woven from nanofibers. Moreover, during the operation of this material, certain chemical processes are involved, which makes it more efficient than traditional kevlar and steel.
14 апреля 2022

04 May 2023

For more than a century, scientists have been searching for materials that are superconductors at room temperature. The emergence of such materials, capable of passing an electric current without resistance under normal conditions, will literally revolutionize the field of energy and some other areas. However, all currently known superconducting materials demonstrate their unique properties only at very low temperatures or under the influence...
13 марта 2023 | Новости науки и техники

04 May 2023

A group of physicists from the City College of New York, Herriot-Watt University, Scotland, and Corning Incorporated have demonstrated that a beam of light from a conventional laser pointer, under certain conditions, can simulate the phenomenon quantum entanglement. And this rather unusual phenomenon can be used to double the speed of optical communication systems. Quantum entanglement is one of the most exotic phenomena in quantum mechanics...
2 ноября 2015 | Новости науки и техники

20 July 2022

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT) for the first time in history managed to observe the formation of electronic whirlpools. Such bizarre behavior of electrons occurs when an electric current begins to behave like a fluid flow, obeying some of the known laws of hydrodynamics. And, it is likely that in the future, scientists will be able to use all this...
13 июля 2022 | Электроника и полупроводники

06 June 2022

A team of researchers from Yale University and the University of Texas at Dallas have created a tiny quantum optical sensor that is about one-thousandth the size of a human hair. But, despite such a small size, this sensor has the widest possibilities, using the quantum properties of electrons, it is able to simultaneously measure the intensity, polarization and wavelength of light. The creation of such a universal sensor will allow in the future to make...
25 мая 2022 | Новости науки и техники

16 May 2022

Back in 2017, a group of researchers from the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, developed a rather interesting energy system that can absorb solar energy without intermediate transformations, store it in liquid form for many years, and return it as needed. Since then, researchers have been developing ultra-thin thermoelectric generators, the combination of which with the aforementioned storage system will make it possible to create self-charging electronic...
26 апреля 2022

16 May 2022

There are so-called topological materials in the world, inside which electrons move only along the surface or along the edges of the material with practically no loss of energy. These materials are considered extremely promising for the creation of next-generation electronics, highly efficient and small-sized. But while there is still one problem that scientists have not been able to overcome, transistors based on topological materials ...
27 января 2022

04 May 2023

Physicists from the US and China have for the first time calculated the contributions to the proton mass associated with various effects. For calculations performed within the framework of lattice QCD, scientists used the Titan supercomputer with a performance of about 27 petaflops. As a result, the researchers found that the quark condensate provides about 9 percent of the mass of the proton, the kinetic energy of the quarks - 32 percent, the gluon field strength - 36 percent,...
Опубликовано: 2019-02-26

22 February 2023

An international group of physicists has found out why beta decays in atomic nuclei proceed more slowly than in free neutrons. Scientists have been struggling to solve this riddle for 50 years, according to a press release on Phys.org. m Researchers have studied the conversion of the isotope tin-100 to indium-100. The two elements have the same number of nucleons (protons and neutrons), but indium-100 has one less proton and one more neutron than tin-100. In beta-plus decay...
Опубликовано: 2019-03-12

06 June 2022

Chinese scientists have been able to exchange quantum entanglement between photons from quantum-entangled pairs separated by an optical fiber more than 100 kilometers long. This result surpasses all previous similar attempts in distance and expands the possibilities of quantum teleportation with the exchange of entanglement to long-distance...
2017-10-26 13335 0 Научные открытия

16 May 2022

Physicists from Germany proposed using azimuthally polarized electromagnetic waves to overcome the diffraction limit and accurately measure the position of a nanoparticle on a glass substrate. By observing the scattering of such waves on a spherical particle, scientists were able to fix a displacement of just...
2019-02-26

16 May 2022

Austrian researchers have grown an unusual thermoelectric material that converts heat into electricity and has several promising industrial applications. A team of scientists at the Vienna University of Technology in Austria has developed a super-efficient kind of material that they claim could one day be used to transform waste…
2013-09-25

22 February 2023

American physicists have for the first time experimentally registered bound states of three photons. The formation of trimers unusual for photons occurs when a laser beam passes through a cloud of cooled rubidium atoms due to the formation of intermediate polariton states, scientists write in Science.Unlike quantum particles that have mass, photons interact very weakly with each other and practically do not form bound states. For the first time, a bound state between two...
Опубликовано: 2018-02-18

06 June 2022

Physicists from Germany proposed using azimuthally polarized electromagnetic waves to overcome the diffraction limit and accurately measure the position of a nanoparticle on a glass substrate. By observing the scattering of such waves on a spherical particle, scientists were able to fix a displacement of just...
2017-10-26 12439 0 Научные открытия

16 мая 2022

An international group of physicists has demonstrated a system in which, with the help of light, they controlled the movement of a macro-object - a 30-micron glass "doughnut", using the quantum mechanical laws of the microworld. An article with the results of the work of scientists was published in the journal Nature. A summary of it is given in the press release...
2012-02-8

16 мая 2022

Scientists have long known that black bodies generate radiation, and that this radiation creates a repulsive (repulsive) effect. However, according to a new study, there is another force at work that acts in a similar way to gravity and pulls objects towards the black body. She received...
2013-07-29

20 Jule 2022

Physicists at the University of Maryland have discovered an exotic YPtBi superconductor, inside which electrons interact with each other to form high-spin quasiparticles. This is reported in the journal Science Advances. Scientists analyzed the electronic structure of a material made from yttrium, platinum...
2018-06-04 30626 0 Научные открытия

06 June 2022

By doping the crystal structures of topological insulators, it is possible to initiate a phase transition between two phases with different types of topological protection. An international group of physicists discovered this effect by doping a semiconductor film of mixed lead and tin selenide...
2017-10-09 15496 0 Научные открытия

16 May 2022

Physicists at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led by Mikhail Lukin, have come up with quantum switches that can be controlled by single photons. The authors published their study in the journal Nature, a brief summary of it can be found on the website of Harvard University...
2014-04-25

16 Маy 2022

UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF OGANISIAN, NEW CHEMICAL ELEMENTS OF THE PERIODIC TABLE WERE IDENTIFIED

Under the leadership of Oganesyan, new chemical elements of the periodic table were identified - from 113 to 118 inclusive. The 118th element is named after him - “oganesson”. In the photograph, academician Yuri Tsolakovich Oganesyan signs an element named after him at the Royal Chemical Institute society, which he visited on October 4. Academician Yuri Oganesyan became a laureate of the UNESCO-Russia International Prize. DI. Mendeleev...