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New Science centers to Apply Quantum Information Science to Emerging Technologies

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the U.S. Department of Energy have announced funding for five new quantum information science centers across the country, in support of the National Quantum Initiative.

27 Aug 2020

Researchers Investigate 3D Quantum Hall Effect in Weyl Semimetals

Since Von Klitzing discovered the quantum Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron gas system in 1980, there has been theoretical work discussing how to quantize the Hall conductance in a three-dimensional system.

26 Aug 2020

A Quantum Simulator for Exploring 3D Chiral Topological Phases

Recently, Professor Liu Xiongjun's group at the International Center for Quantum Materials of Peking University, together with Professor Du Jiangfeng and Professor Wang Ya at University of Science and Technology of China, published a paper in Phys. Rev. Lett. reporting a progress on quantum simulation for 3D chiral topological phase.

26 Aug 2020

Researchers Measure Global Magnetic Field of Solar Corona for the First Time

An international team led by Professor Tian Hui from Peking University has recently measured the global magnetic field of the solar corona for the first time.

26 Aug 2020

Study Shows How Ideas from Quantum Physics can Help Develop Novel Drugs

Published in Nature Physics, findings from a new study co-led by Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University teams show for the first time how ideas from quantum physics can help develop novel drug interventions for bacterial infections and cancer.

25 Aug 2020

Spinning Black Holes Release Powerful Magnetized Jets

Black holes are at the center of almost all galaxies that have been studied so far. They have an unimaginably large mass and therefore attract matter, gas and even light.

24 Aug 2020

Using Super-Slow Motion Experiments to Study Electron Movements in Liquid

To understand how chemical reactions begin, chemists have been using super-slow motion experiments for years to study the very first moments of a reaction.

24 Aug 2020

A Powder Method Shows Promise for High-Efficacy Evaluation of Electro-Optic Crystals

Electro-optic crystal shows great promise for extensive applications in laser, optoelectronics, and optical communication, such as high-speed E-O switch, modulator, deflector, laser mode-locking, photoetching, laser radar and so on.

24 Aug 2020

NASA Mission Could Unveil More Rogue Planets in the Milky Way

An upcoming NASA mission could find that there are more rogue planets - planets that float in space without orbiting a sun - than there are stars in the Milky Way, a new study theorizes.

24 Aug 2020

Hubble Captures the Closest Images of Comet NEOWISE

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the closest images yet of the sky's latest visitor to make the headlines, comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE, after it passed by the Sun.

24 Aug 2020