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Researchers Advance Sending of ‘Entangled’ Particles over Long Distances

Researchers from Stanford have advanced a long-standing problem in quantum physics – how to send "entangled" particles over long distances.

26 Nov 2015

Scientists Link Superconducting Carrier Density with Quantum Properties of a Substance

Physicists Mikhail Feigel’man (the head of MIPT’s theoretical nanophysics laboratory) and Lev Ioffe have explained the unusual effect in a number of promising superconductor materials. Using a theory they developed previously, the scientists have linked superconducting carrier density with the quantum properties of a substance.

26 Nov 2015

Mars' Largest Moon Slowly Falling Toward the Planet

Mars' largest moon, Phobos, is slowly falling toward the planet, but rather than smash into the surface, it likely will be shredded and the pieces strewn about the planet in a ring like the rings encircling Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune.

26 Nov 2015

Astronomers Identify Hottest White Dwarf and Intergalactic Gas Entering the Milky Way

Astronomers in Tübingen and Potsdam identify dying star, intergalactic gas entering Milky Way

26 Nov 2015

Long Filaments of Hairy Dark Matter may Exist on Earth

The solar system might be a lot hairier than we thought. A new study publishing this week in the Astrophysical Journal by Gary Prézeau of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, proposes the existence of long filaments of dark matter, or "hairs."

25 Nov 2015

Comets Produce Prodigious Amount of Carbon Dioxide When They Get Closer to the Sun

After its launch in 2009, NASA's NEOWISE spacecraft observed 163 comets during the WISE/NEOWISE prime mission. This sample from the space telescope represents the largest infrared survey of comets to date. Data from the survey are giving new insights into the dust, comet nucleus sizes, and production rates for difficult-to-observe gases like carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide. Results of the NEOWISE census of comets were recently published in the Astrophysical Journal.

25 Nov 2015

NMSU Physicists see First Images from Neutrino Interactions in the MicroBooNE Particle Detector

One hundred billion ghostly subatomic particles pass unnoticed through the tip of your finger every second. Chances are you’ll never see a neutrino, unless you’re a physicist.

25 Nov 2015

New Horizons Mission Scientists to Present New View of Pluto

The historic flyby of Pluto by the New Horizons spacecraft July 14 has turned what we know about the dwarf planet upside down. This newly revealed world will be illuminated in a talk at Cornell by two scientists on the New Horizons mission: Cathy Olkin, deputy project scientist, and Ann Harch, lead sequencer of the science instruments on board the spacecraft.

25 Nov 2015

3D Printer and Off-the-Shelf Parts Help Build Self-Aligning Mirror Mechanism for ITER

At the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, the spirit of tinkering lives. This past summer a team of engineers invented a mechanical device designed to be installed on ITER, the multinational fusion machine being built in the south of France, using 3D printing and parts bought at Walmart.

25 Nov 2015

Penn State Scientists Honored with 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Doug Cowen, professor of physics and of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, and Gordana Tešiæ, a postdoctoral researcher in Cowen's group, are members of a team of scientists that has been recognized with the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. The award, which recognizes major insights into the deepest questions of the universe, includes a $3 million prize. This year's prize will be split among five separate teams that are being recognized “for the fundamental discovery of neutrino oscillations, revealing a new frontier beyond, and possibly far beyond, the standard model of particle physics," according to the award citation.

25 Nov 2015

Quantum Physics News

Researchers Advance Sending of ‘Entangled’ Particles over Long Distances

Scientists Link Superconducting Carrier Density with Quantum Properties of a Substance

Mars' Largest Moon Slowly Falling Toward the Planet

Astronomers Identify Hottest White Dwarf and Intergalactic Gas Entering the Milky Way

Long Filaments of Hairy Dark Matter may Exist on Earth

Comets Produce Prodigious Amount of Carbon Dioxide When They Get Closer to the Sun

NMSU Physicists see First Images from Neutrino Interactions in the MicroBooNE Particle Detector

New Horizons Mission Scientists to Present New View of Pluto

3D Printer and Off-the-Shelf Parts Help Build Self-Aligning Mirror Mechanism for ITER

Penn State Scientists Honored with 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

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

1New Device Enables Fine-Tuning of Information Flow in Qubits

2New Discovery Links ORC Formation to Merging Galaxy Clusters

3Deep Underground Detectors Push Limits of Dark Matter Particle Mass

4XRISM Unveils Elemental Composition Near Supermassive Black Hole

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