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MIT Physicists Contribute to Project That Wins Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

MIT researchers took home several awards last night at the 2016 Breakthrough Prize ceremony at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.

11 Nov 2015

Researchers Achieve Record Measurement of Extreme Photon Entanglement

An experiment in Singapore has pushed quantum weirdness close to its absolute limit. Researchers from the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at the National University of Singapore and the University of Seville in Spain have reported the most extreme ‘entanglement’ between pairs of photons ever seen in the lab. The result was published 30 October 2015 in Physical Review Letters.

11 Nov 2015

New Methods for Imaging Microwave Fields Exploit Change in Spin States

Microwave field imaging is becoming increasingly important, as microwaves play an essential role in modern communications technology and can also be used in medical diagnostics. Researchers from the Swiss Nanoscience Institute and the Department of Physics at the University of Basel have now independently developed two new methods for imaging microwave fields. Both methods exploit the change in spin states induced by an applied microwave field, as reported by the researchers in the “New Journal of Physics”.

11 Nov 2015

Record-Low Laser Energies for Accelerating Electron Beams Could Enable Inexpensive, Portable Particle Accelerators

Conventional particle accelerators are typically big machines that occupy a lot of space. Even at more modest energies, such as that used for cancer therapy and medical imaging, accelerators need large rooms to accommodate the required hardware, power supplies and radiation shielding.

6 Nov 2015

Surprising 3D Arrangement of Electrons Closely Linked to High-Temperature Superconductivity

A team led by scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory combined powerful magnetic pulses with some of the brightest X-rays on the planet to discover a surprising 3-D arrangement of a material's electrons that appears closely linked to a mysterious phenomenon known as high-temperature superconductivity.

6 Nov 2015

Researchers Employ Optical Attenuators to Extend Range of Photon-Counting Detectors

Precise measurements of optical power enable activities from fiber-optic communications to laser manufacturing and biomedical imaging — anything requiring a reliable source of light. This situation calls for light-measuring (radiometric) standards that can operate over a wide range of power levels.

6 Nov 2015

Superconductivity and Charge Density Wave Order can Coexist in a Single NbSe2 Metal Layer

An international team led by Miguel M. Ugeda (CIC nanoGUNE) and Michael F. Crommie (UC. Berkeley (USA)) has demonstrated the coexistence of superconductivity and charge density wave (CDW) order in a single layer of NbSe2, a model transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) metal.

6 Nov 2015

Unexpected Quantum Effects Increase Charge Carriers, Boost Harvesting of Energy

Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have found a way to significantly boost the energy that can be harnessed from sunlight, a finding that could lead to better solar cells or light detectors.

6 Nov 2015

Researchers Realize Layer-By-Layer Etching in Superconducting One-Monolayer FeSe Films

Iron selenide (FeSe) is an attracting superconducting material since the superconducting transition temperature (Tc) is enhanced from 8 K in bulk form toward 65 K in one-monolayer form.

6 Nov 2015

Scientists Measure Antiproton Interactions

Peering at the debris from particle collisions that recreate the conditions of the very early universe, scientists have for the first time measured the force of interaction between pairs of antiprotons. Like the force that holds ordinary protons together within the nuclei of atoms, the force between antiprotons is attractive and strong.

5 Nov 2015

Quantum Physics News

MIT Physicists Contribute to Project That Wins Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Researchers Achieve Record Measurement of Extreme Photon Entanglement

New Methods for Imaging Microwave Fields Exploit Change in Spin States

Record-Low Laser Energies for Accelerating Electron Beams Could Enable Inexpensive, Portable Particle Accelerators

Surprising 3D Arrangement of Electrons Closely Linked to High-Temperature Superconductivity

Researchers Employ Optical Attenuators to Extend Range of Photon-Counting Detectors

Superconductivity and Charge Density Wave Order can Coexist in a Single NbSe2 Metal Layer

Unexpected Quantum Effects Increase Charge Carriers, Boost Harvesting of Energy

Researchers Realize Layer-By-Layer Etching in Superconducting One-Monolayer FeSe Films

Scientists Measure Antiproton Interactions

Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

LabOne Q: An Intuitive Software Framework for Scalable Quantum Computing

ORCA-Quest qCMOS Camera by Hamamatsu

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Researchers Exploit the Color Centers in Diamond to Enhance Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Processes for NMR Applications

Application of Electro-Optic Phase Modulator in Pound-Drever Hall Technique for Laser Frequency Stabilization

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Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

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