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Topological State of New Family of Materials can be Observed Directly

They are 'strange' materials, insulators on the inside and conductors on the surface. They also have properties that make them excellent candidates for the development of spintronics ('spin-based electronics') and more in general quantum computing. However, they are also elusive as their properties are extremely difficult to observe.

13 May 2015

A Single Nuclear Spin Could Possibly be Detected at Room Temperature

For the first time, a researcher at the University of Waterloo has theoretically demonstrated that it is possible to detect a single nuclear spin at room temperature, which could pave the way for new approaches to medical diagnostics.

13 May 2015

Magic Wavelengths to Tune Rydberg Atoms for Quantum Information Applications

Rydberg atoms, atoms whose outermost electrons are highly excited but not ionized, might be just the thing for processing quantum information. These outsized atoms can be sustained for a long time in a quantum superposition condition -- a good thing for creating qubits -- and they can interact strongly with other such atoms, making them useful for devising the kind of logic gates needed to process information. Scientists at JQI (*) and at other labs are pursuing this promising research area.

12 May 2015

Penn State Student Honored for Co-Discovery of Never-Before-Seen Pulsar

A team of highly determined high school students, which included current Penn State University sophomore and Schreyer Honors College Scholar Cecilia McGough, has discovered a never-before-seen pulsar by painstakingly analyzing data from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT). Further observations by astronomers using the GBT have revealed that this pulsar has the widest orbit of any around a neutron star and is part of only a handful of double neutron star systems.

12 May 2015

ONR Honors JQI Fellow with Young Investigator Award

JQI Fellow Mohammad Hafezi was announced as a recipient of a 2015 ONR Young Investigator award. ONR's website describes the program as being designed to promote the professional development of early-career academic scientists – called investigators, or YIPs – both as researchers and instructors. For awardees, the funding supports laboratory equipment, graduate student stipends and scholarships, and other expenses critical to ongoing and planned investigational studies.

12 May 2015

Brookhaven Lab Team Receives Prestigious Award for Building Superconducting Hadron Collider Magnets

Following the much-anticipated recent restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, a 17-member team primarily based at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory was recognized with one of DOE's most prestigious awards for successfully completing two superconducting magnets for the 17-mile-circumference collider.

12 May 2015

University of Houston to Lead Plans for Advanced Superconductor Manufacturing Institute

The University of Houston will lead plans for an Advanced Superconductor Manufacturing Institute (ASMI), aimed at speeding the full commercialization of high-temperature superconductors. Energetics Inc. will support UH in this effort.

12 May 2015

NuSTAR Reveals Single-Sided Explosion in Nearby Supernova

Livermore - New results from the NASA NuSTAR telescope show that a supernova close to our galaxy experienced a single-sided explosion.

11 May 2015

Physical Review Publishes Paper on Cosmic Rayleigh Scattering

UBC theoretical cosmology graduate student Elham Alipour’s paper Effects of Rayleigh scattering on the CMB and cosmic structure has been selected as an Editor’s Suggestion in Physical Review D for its “novel insight on the effect of Rayleigh scattering on cosmological power spectra.” This distinction is reserved for a small number of papers deemed to be of particular interest, importance, or clarity.

11 May 2015

Free Talk at UC Riverside on Galaxy Formation in the Universe

Exactly how many galaxies the universe contains is unknown, but that they number in the billions is undisputed. Galaxies, which come in three main shapes – elliptical, spiral (such as the Milky Way, humanity’s home galaxy) and irregular – can be massive or small.

11 May 2015