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Physicists Observe Extremely Rare Double Gamma Decay of Excited Nucleus State

Physicists at the TU Darmstadt have succeeded in observing an extremely rare radioactive decay for the first time ever.

19 Oct 2015

UTA Professor Named Fellow of the American Physical Society

University of Texas at Arlington physics professor Kaushik De has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society for his work in developing cloud computing architectures that enabled global collaboration and big data analysis on the ATLAS experiment at CERN.

19 Oct 2015

Genetically Engineered Viruses Enhance Transport of Excitons using Quantum Coherence

Nature has had billions of years to perfect photosynthesis, which directly or indirectly supports virtually all life on Earth. In that time, the process has achieved almost 100 percent efficiency in transporting the energy of sunlight from receptors to reaction centers where it can be harnessed — a performance vastly better than even the best solar cells.

16 Oct 2015

Berkeley Lab Scientists and Engineers had Played Key Roles in Nobel Prize-Winning Neutrino Research

“If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants” – Sir Isaac Newton

16 Oct 2015

A Little Bit of Background Starlight Still Manages to Get Through Coalsack Nebula

The Coalsack Nebula is located about 600 light-years away in the constellation of Crux. This huge, dusky object forms a conspicuous silhouette against the bright, starry band of the Milky Way and for this reason the nebula has been known to people in the southern hemisphere for as long as our species has existed.

16 Oct 2015

Dwarf Planet Ceres Could be a Cosmic Dartboard

A new set of high-velocity impact experiments suggests that the dwarf planet Ceres may be something of a cosmic dartboard: Projectiles that slam into it tend to stick.

16 Oct 2015

Ancient Galaxies Were More Efficient at Star Formation

Galaxies forming stars at extreme rates nine billion years ago were more efficient than average galaxies today, researchers find.

16 Oct 2015

Ramanujan's Taxi-Cab Number Linked to String Theory and Quantum Physics

Taxi-cab numbers, among the most beloved integers in math, trace their origins to 1918 and what seemed like a casual insight by the Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. Now mathematicians at Emory University have discovered that Ramanujan did not just identify the first taxi-cab number - 1729 - and its quirky properties. He showed how the number relates to elliptic curves and K3 surfaces - objects important today in string theory and quantum physics.

16 Oct 2015

CMS Collaboration Reports on Very First Particle Collisions of Large Hadron Collider’s Second Run

After a two-year hiatus, the Large Hadron Collider, the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world, began its second run of experiments in June, smashing together subatomic particles at 13 teraelectronvolts (TeV) -- the highest energy ever achieved in a laboratory. Physicists hope that such high-energy collisions may produce completely new particles, and potentially simulate the conditions that were seen in the early universe.

16 Oct 2015

Researchers Prove Bounded L2 Curvature Conjecture, Could Help Solve Einstein Equations

Proposed 15 years ago, the bounded L2 curvature conjecture has finally been proved by a group of three researchers at the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions (CNRS / UPMC / Université Paris Diderot) and Princeton University. It provides a potentially minimal framework in which it is possible to solve the Einstein equations, which in turn could be a critical step toward the proof of major conjectures, such as Penrose’s cosmic censorship conjectures. This work was published in Inventiones Mathematicae on October 14.

16 Oct 2015

Quantum Physics News

Physicists Observe Extremely Rare Double Gamma Decay of Excited Nucleus State

UTA Professor Named Fellow of the American Physical Society

Genetically Engineered Viruses Enhance Transport of Excitons using Quantum Coherence

Berkeley Lab Scientists and Engineers had Played Key Roles in Nobel Prize-Winning Neutrino Research

A Little Bit of Background Starlight Still Manages to Get Through Coalsack Nebula

Dwarf Planet Ceres Could be a Cosmic Dartboard

Ancient Galaxies Were More Efficient at Star Formation

Ramanujan's Taxi-Cab Number Linked to String Theory and Quantum Physics

CMS Collaboration Reports on Very First Particle Collisions of Large Hadron Collider’s Second Run

Researchers Prove Bounded L2 Curvature Conjecture, Could Help Solve Einstein Equations

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

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2Deep Underground Detectors Push Limits of Dark Matter Particle Mass

3New Discovery Links ORC Formation to Merging Galaxy Clusters

4XRISM Unveils Elemental Composition Near Supermassive Black Hole

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