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Harnessing Physics Phenomena to Make Quantum Sensors More Sensitive

Quantum sensors can measure extremely small changes in an environment by taking advantage of quantum phenomena like entanglement, where entangled particles can affect each other, even when separated by great distances.

17 Nov 2020

Removing Random Doping allows for Reproducible Manufacture of Quantum Devices

A UNSW-led collaboration has found that removing random doping in quantum electronic devices dramatically improves their reproducibility – a key requirement for future applications such as quantum-information processing and spintronics.

17 Nov 2020

Axionic Strings Found to Exhibit Odd Behavior if Produced in Exotic Materials

Researchers have partially solved the mystery of a hypothetical particle that serves as the solution to one of the biggest puzzles in cosmology.

16 Nov 2020

Study Reveals History of Temperature Changes in the Universe

How hot is the Universe today- How hot was it before- A new study by an international team of researchers, including members of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), suggests that the mean temperature of gas in large structures of the Universe has increased about 3 times in the last 8 billion years, to reach about two million Kelvin today.

16 Nov 2020

Orbits of Ancient Stars Prompt Rethink on Milky Way Evolution

Australian telescopes and European satellite combine to reveal unexpected motions among the Galaxy’s rarest objects

16 Nov 2020

Exotic Low-Mass Fields Could Help Observe Astrophysical Events

Black hole mergers are cataclysmic astrophysical events that can discharge energy in unforeseen forms.

12 Nov 2020

Connecting Two Different Types of Unconventional Superconductors

The understanding of unconventional superconductivity is one of the most challenging and fascinating tasks of solid-state physics.

12 Nov 2020

Research Explains How Electrons Supertransport Current in 'Bad Metals'

In jargon, they are called "bad metals", but they are not really so bad. As a matter of fact, they are the best superconductors because they are able to conduct current with the highest efficiency and without resistance up to high temperatures.

12 Nov 2020

LHCb Observation: First Experimental Evidence of a Four-Charm Tetraquark

The strong interaction is one of the fundamental forces of nature, which binds quarks into hadrons such as the proton and the neutron, the building blocks of atoms.

12 Nov 2020

USask Physicist Joins with UK Partners to Develop New a Quantum Magnetometer

As part of a new U.K.-Canada collaboration, a University of Saskatchewan quantum physics team will develop a highly sensitive and precise sensor for measuring magnetic fields, a technology of potential benefit for geological prospecting, medicine, and quantum computers.

11 Nov 2020