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Extreme Solar Storms Could Have Caused Mysterious Radiocarbon Increases

Solar storms and the particles they release result in spectacular phenomena such as auroras, but they can also pose a serious risk to our society. In extreme cases they have caused major power outages, and they could also lead to breakdowns of satellites and communication systems.

27 Oct 2015

Petawatt Laser Blasts Tiny Gold and Platinum Targets to Create Large Number of Positrons

Physicists from Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin have found a new recipe for using intense lasers to create positrons — the antiparticle of electrons — in record numbers and density.

27 Oct 2015

Comet Lovejoy Releases Alcohol and Sugar

Comet Lovejoy lived up to its name by releasing large amounts of alcohol as well as a type of sugar into space, according to new observations by an international team.

26 Oct 2015

Astronomers Calculate Magnetic Field Strengths in Fusion-Powered Hearts of Stars

Astronomers have for the first time probed the magnetic fields in the mysterious inner regions of stars, finding they are strongly magnetized.

26 Oct 2015

Researchers Suppress Quantum Tunneling Merely by Observing the Atoms

One of the oddest predictions of quantum theory – that a system can’t change while you’re watching it – has been confirmed in an experiment by Cornell physicists. Their work opens the door to a fundamentally new method to control and manipulate the quantum states of atoms and could lead to new kinds of sensors.

26 Oct 2015

Astronomers Discover Over 250 of the Earliest Dwarf Galaxies

Before light travelled across it, the universe was a dark place. For about a billion years after the Big Bang, the cosmos was cloaked in a thick fog of hydrogen gas that kept light trapped.

26 Oct 2015

Gravitational Lensing Reveals Largest Sample of Faintest, Earliest Known Galaxies

Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have taken advantage of gravitational lensing to reveal the largest sample of the faintest and earliest known galaxies in the Universe.

26 Oct 2015

Attophysics Helps Track Ultrafast Movement of Electrons in Molecules

Researchers have, for the first time, been able to track the movement of an electron in a molecule in real time and have demonstrated that these processes can be controlled - in the future this will make it possible to directly control the progress of chemical reactions and biological processes and obtain a desired result literally at the touch of a button.

26 Oct 2015

Rice University Physicist Wins APS Prize for Pioneering Research in Ultracold Atomic Gases

The American Physical Society has awarded Rice University physicist Randy Hulet the prestigious 2016 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic Physics.

23 Oct 2015

SLAC's Claudio Pellegrini Honored with Fermi Award

President Obama welcomed SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's Claudio Pellegrini into the Oval Office Tuesday morning as a recipient of the Enrico Fermi Award, one of the highest honors the U.S. government can give to a scientist.

23 Oct 2015

Quantum Physics News

Extreme Solar Storms Could Have Caused Mysterious Radiocarbon Increases

Petawatt Laser Blasts Tiny Gold and Platinum Targets to Create Large Number of Positrons

Comet Lovejoy Releases Alcohol and Sugar

Astronomers Calculate Magnetic Field Strengths in Fusion-Powered Hearts of Stars

Researchers Suppress Quantum Tunneling Merely by Observing the Atoms

Astronomers Discover Over 250 of the Earliest Dwarf Galaxies

Gravitational Lensing Reveals Largest Sample of Faintest, Earliest Known Galaxies

Attophysics Helps Track Ultrafast Movement of Electrons in Molecules

Rice University Physicist Wins APS Prize for Pioneering Research in Ultracold Atomic Gases

SLAC's Claudio Pellegrini Honored with Fermi Award

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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Repeat-Until-Success Algorithm for Quantum Gate Decomposition

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

1STM Unveils the Secrets of Chiral Interfaces

2Breakthrough for Next-Generation Quantum Computing

3Exploring Black Hole-Level Scrambling in Chemical Reactions

4Exploring Quantum Mechanics with a Tiny Interferometric Sensor

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