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Smart Quantum Technology Simplifies Identification of Light Sources

Researchers have developed and demonstrated a smart quantum technology that allows a drastic reduction in the number of measurements needed to identify sources of light.

6 May 2020

Theoretical Calculations Offer New Insights into Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment

Twenty years ago, researchers from Brookhaven National Laboratory at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) performed an experiment that identified a mysterious discrepancy between actual laboratory measurements and the established particle physics theory.

6 May 2020

Single-Photon Sources for On-Chip Quantum Networks with High Repetition Rates

A new kind of technology that is based on photons—the fundamental particle of light—is used in the field of quantum photonics.

6 May 2020

Study Estimates Globular Cluster NGC 6652's Age is Close to 13.6 Billion Years

Senior Research Associate Margarita Sharina (Special Astrophysical Observatory) and Associate Professor Vladislav Shimansky (Kazan Federal University) studied the globular cluster NGC 6652.4.05957 and found out that its age is close to 13.6 billion years, which makes it one of the oldest objects in the Milky Way.

6 May 2020

Study Investigates Quantum Effects that Play Role in Atom-Sized Machines

For the first time in the history of miniaturization of machines, researchers at CQT and their colleagues have demonstrated that a single atom can work as an engine or a fridge.

5 May 2020

Room-Temperature Quantum Computers may Become Reality

According to scientists from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, quantum computer circuits that will no longer require extremely cold temperatures to operate may soon become a reality, that is, in around 10 years.

4 May 2020

Instrument to Study Axion Could Explain Mystery of Dark Matter

Observation of the universe has enabled researchers to determine that nearly 80% of its mass seems to be “dark matter,” exerting a gravitational pull but without interacting with light.

4 May 2020

Gravitational Waves Could Provide Clear Evidence for Creation of Quark-Gluon Plasma

Neutron stars are among the densest objects in the universe. If our Sun, with its radius of 700,000 kilometres were a neutron star, its mass would be condensed into an almost perfect sphere with a radius of around 12 kilometers.

4 May 2020

NASA's Webb Telescope to Unravel Mystery of Bustling Stellar Nursery

A bustling stellar nursery in the picturesque Orion Nebula will be a subject of study for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to launch in 2021.

4 May 2020

Machine Learning Speeds Up Tuning Operations of Particle Accelerator

Every year, the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) at the Department of Energy is visited by scientists across the world to carry out scores of experiments in energy research, biology, materials science, and chemistry at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray laser.

30 Apr 2020