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Phosphine's Superconductivity under High Pressure Likely Arise Due to Chemical Decomposing

Phosphine is one of the newest materials to be named a superconductor, a material through which electricity can flow with zero resistance.

4 Feb 2016

Cold Dust Found by ALMA May Provide Better Understanding of Protoplanetary Discs

The international team, led by Stephane Guilloteau at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, France, measured the temperature of large dust grains around the young star 2MASS J16281370-2431391 in the spectacular Rho Ophiuchi star formation region, about 400 light-years from Earth.

4 Feb 2016

PPPL Research Team Begins Scientific Investigations on Fusion Energy

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), who collaborate with the Max Planck Institute in Germany on the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) fusion energy reactor, congratulated the team for starting its scientific investigations on fusion energy by producing its first hydrogen plasma on Feb. 3. Hydrogen will provide the fuel necessary to create the energy in an eventual power plant.

3 Feb 2016

Coupling of Laser-Plasma Accelerators Paves Way for Ultrapowerful Compact Machines

Laser-plasma accelerators (LPAs) are referred to as “tabletop” since, as exhibited by the novel BELLA accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), they can increase electron beams to multibillion electron-volt energies (GeVs) in a few centimeters — a distance several times shorter than conventional accelerators.

2 Feb 2016

Researchers Create First Self-Assembled Superconductor Structure

A multidisciplinary team from Cornell have built a three-dimensional, self-assembled gyroidal superconductor based on their research of nearly over two decades.

2 Feb 2016

Information Transport Via Magnetic Spin Waves

The success story of information processing by way of moving electrons is slowly coming to an end. The trend towards more and more compact chips constitutes a major challenge for manufacturers, since the increasing miniaturization creates partly unsolvable physical problems. This is why magnetic spin waves could be the future: they are faster than electronic charge carriers and use less power.

2 Feb 2016

Study Shows Unconventional Superconductivity is General Mechanism at Quantum-Critical Point

Researchers at the Goethe University have discovered an important mechanism for superconductivity in a metallic compound containing ytterbium, rhodium and silicon. As reported by Cornelius Krellner and his colleagues in the current edition of the Science journal, the underlying concept of the quantum-critical point has long been discussed as a possible mechanism for high-temperature superconductivity.

2 Feb 2016

New Invention Revolutionizes Quantum-Limited Heat Conduction

Heat conduction is a fundamental physical phenomenon utilised, for example, in clothing, housing, car industry, and electronics. Thus our day-to-day life is inevitably affected by major shocks in this field. The research group, led by quantum physicist Mikko Möttönen has now made one of these groundbreaking discoveries. This new invention revolutionizes quantum-limited heat conduction which means as efficient heat transport as possible from point A to point B. This is great news especially for the developers of quantum computers.

2 Feb 2016

Researchers Analyze Why Some Gases can be Cooled Down to Extremely Low Temperatures

It all comes down to quantum physics: scientists at TU Wien (Vienna) have analysed why some gases can be cooled down to extremely low temperatures.

2 Feb 2016

Researchers Use Phonon-Light Technique for Dark Matter Detection

The origin of matter in the universe has puzzled physicists for generations. Today, we know that matter only accounts for 5% of our universe; another 25% is constituted of dark matter. And the remaining 70% is made up of dark energy. Dark matter itself represents an unsolved riddle.

2 Feb 2016