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New Model Explains Pseudogap State Forms in High-Temperature Superconductors

A German-French research team has constructed a new model that explains how the so-called pseudogap state forms in high-temperature superconductors. The calculations predict two coexisting electron orders.

10 Jun 2013

danceroom Spectroscopy Project on Atomic World Wins Bristol 2012/13 Engagement Awards

The winners of the University of Bristol’s 2012/13 Engagement Awards have been announced. The Awards, sponsored by the Society of Merchant Venturers and judged by the Engaged University Steering Group, are given in two categories: Group and Individual.

10 Jun 2013

Researchers Succeed in Teleporting Information Between Two Clouds of Gas Atoms

Researchers have been able to teleport information from light to light at a quantum level for several years. In 2006, researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute succeeded in teleporting between light and gas atoms. Now the research group has succeeded in teleporting information between two clouds of gas atoms and to carry out the teleportation – not just one or a few times, but successfully every single time. The results are published in the scientific journal, Nature Physics.

7 Jun 2013

Overwhelming Response to Singapore's Physics Education Seminar

More than 100 physics teachers attended Singapore's Physics Education Seminar (PES), held 3-6 June at NUS High School of Mathematics and Science. The event offered professional development: a day-long seminar of talks and tours was followed by two workshops on teaching resources developed by Canada's Perimeter Institute (PI), a world-renowned research centre in theoretical physics.

7 Jun 2013

Study Results Provide New Insights into Possible Spintronic Materials

Ten years ago, scientists were convinced that a combination of manganese and gallium nitride could be a key material to create spintronics, the next generation of electronic devices that operate on properties found at the nanoscale. But researchers grew discouraged when experiments indicated that the two materials were as harmonious as oil and water.

7 Jun 2013

New ALMA Observations Reveal Secrets of Planet Formation

Astronomers using the new Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have imaged a region around a young star where dust particles can grow by clumping together. This is the first time that such a dust trap has been clearly observed and modelled. It solves a long-standing mystery about how dust particles in discs grow to larger sizes so that they can eventually form comets, planets and other rocky bodies. The results are published in the journal Science on 7 June 2013.

7 Jun 2013

Technical, Yet Personal, Memoir from Sandia Physicist Tom Sanford

The swan song of retiring Sandia physicist Tom Sanford is in a technical, yet personal, memoir about experiments that changed the course of research at particle accelerators around the world.

7 Jun 2013

Mini-Starburst Taking Place at NGC 6334 Cat's Paw Nebula

Most skygazers recognize the Orion Nebula, one of the closest stellar nurseries to Earth. Although it makes for great views in backyard telescopes, the Orion Nebula is far from the most prolific star-forming region in our galaxy.

6 Jun 2013

NIST Researchers Observe Spin Hall Effect in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have reported* the first observation of the "spin Hall effect" in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), a cloud of ultracold atoms acting as a single quantum object.

6 Jun 2013

The Sun may Have Grown in Fits and Starts While Burping out X-rays

If you had a time machine that could take you anywhere in the past, what time would you choose? Most people would probably pick the era of the dinosaurs in hopes of spotting a T. rex. But many astronomers would choose the period, four and a half billion years ago, that our solar system formed.

6 Jun 2013