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Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope Captures SN 2014J Supernova

An exceptionally close stellar explosion discovered on Jan. 21 has become the focus of observatories around and above the globe, including several NASA spacecraft. The blast, designated SN 2014J, occurred in the galaxy M82 and lies only about 12 million light-years away. This makes it the nearest optical supernova in two decades and potentially the closest type Ia supernova to occur during the life of currently operating space missions.

28 Jan 2014

ORNL Research Could Lead to Better Superconductors

Nearly 30 years after the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity, many questions remain, but an Oak Ridge National Laboratory team is providing insight that could lead to better superconductors.

28 Jan 2014

Novel Nanoscale Sensitive Quantum Measurement Device Operates at Wider Range of Temperatures

Nanoscale Superconducting QUantum Interference Devices (nanoSQUIDs) are potentially the most sensitive measurement devices in the world. They detect changes in an electromagnetic property known as magnetic flux, which means they can be used to detect single photons or to characterise the tiny quantum oscillations in nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS).

28 Jan 2014

Intermittent Emissions of Water Vapor Discovered on Ceres Asteroid

An international team, including researchers from CNRS and the Paris Observatory at LESIA (Observatoire de Paris/CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie/Université Paris-Diderot) and at IMCEE (Observatoire de Paris/CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie/Université Lille 1), has discovered intermittent emissions of water vapor on Ceres, the largest of the asteroids, using the Herschel space telescope. These findings are published in the journal Nature dated 23 January 2014.

25 Jan 2014

NASA Science Instruments Prepare for Operations Aboard Rosetta Spacecraft

Three NASA science instruments are being prepared for check-out operations aboard the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, which is set to become the first to orbit a comet and land a probe on its nucleus in November.

25 Jan 2014

NUFI Awards 6.7 Million DKK for Research at CERN

Research at CERN receives 6.685 million Danish kroner from NUFI, the National Committee for Research Infrastructure under the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation. The funds are granted for the operation and the development of the Danish experimental work at CERN in 2014.

25 Jan 2014

Reactivated NEOWISE Mission Detects 857 Minor Bodies in the Solar System

In its first 25 days of operations, the newly reactivated NEOWISE mission has detected 857 minor bodies in our solar system, including 22 near-Earth objects (NEOs) and four comets. Three of the NEOs are new discoveries; all three are hundreds of meters in diameter and dark as coal.

25 Jan 2014

Centrifuge Spectroscopy Enables Excitation of Oxygen Molecules from Ground Rotational State to Quantum States

UBC scientists have developed a new type of optical spectroscopy, dubbed “centrifuge spectroscopy”, capable of probing molecules in an unprecedented regime of ultrafast “super” rotation. An optical centrifuge is a laser pulse with rotating linear polarization. Due to the light-induced dipole moment, molecules line up along the polarization vector and faithfully follow its rotation, spinning up to ultra-high angular frequencies, which cannot be reached by any other means.

24 Jan 2014

Berkeley Researchers Tune Chemical Bonds of Buckyballs

If the chemical bonds that hold together the constituent atoms of a molecule could be tuned to become stronger or weaker, certain chemical properties of that molecule might be controlled to great advantage for applications in energy and catalysis. Berkeley Lab researchers at the Molecular Foundry, in collaboration with researchers from Rice University, were able to accomplish this feat by using an applied voltage and electric current to tune the strength of chemical bonds in fullerene or “buckyball” molecules.

24 Jan 2014

New Experiment Supports Existence of Luttinger Liquid State

How would electrons behave if confined to a wire so slender they could pass through it only in single-file?

24 Jan 2014

Quantum Physics News

Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope Captures SN 2014J Supernova

ORNL Research Could Lead to Better Superconductors

Novel Nanoscale Sensitive Quantum Measurement Device Operates at Wider Range of Temperatures

Intermittent Emissions of Water Vapor Discovered on Ceres Asteroid

NASA Science Instruments Prepare for Operations Aboard Rosetta Spacecraft

NUFI Awards 6.7 Million DKK for Research at CERN

Reactivated NEOWISE Mission Detects 857 Minor Bodies in the Solar System

Centrifuge Spectroscopy Enables Excitation of Oxygen Molecules from Ground Rotational State to Quantum States

Berkeley Researchers Tune Chemical Bonds of Buckyballs

New Experiment Supports Existence of Luttinger Liquid State

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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Repeat-Until-Success Algorithm for Quantum Gate Decomposition

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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2First High-Res Map of Massive Explosion in NGC 4383

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4Quantum Linear Solvers for Redundant Baseline Calibration

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