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Researchers Observe Highly Localized Excitons Confined in Atomically Thin Materials

Excitons are drawing attention as possible quantum bits (qubits) in tomorrow's quantum computers and are central to optoelectronics and energy-harvesting processes.

8 Feb 2023

Rewinding Protocol for Reversing Certain Quantum Processes

Physicists demonstrate a universal rewinding protocol, reversing time in quantum systems, enhancing our understanding of quantum mechanics and its applications.

8 Feb 2023

JWST Pinpoints Invisible Engine Powering Galaxies in Collision

The James Webb Space Telescope was utilized by scientists to determine the accurate location of a strong energy source hidden by cosmic dust present in the luminous merging galaxy IIZw096.

7 Feb 2023

How to Reverse Unknown Quantum Processes

In the world around us processes appear to follow a certain time-direction: dandelions eventually turn into blowballs. However, the quantum realm does not play by the same rules.

7 Feb 2023

Baby Star Outflows Influence the Formation of Nearby Stars

Baby stars do not always get along with their siblings. According to recent studies, a baby star’s outflow of fast-moving gas is clashing with another star-forming cloud of dense gas nearby.

6 Feb 2023

Ferroelectrics Exhibit Heat-Transferring Property Induced by the Electric Field

Scientists have found the secret behind a property of solid materials known as ferroelectrics, showing that quasiparticles moving in wave-like patterns among vibrating atoms carry enough heat to turn the material into a thermal switch when an electrical field is applied externally.

6 Feb 2023

Lab-Created “Quantum Abacus” to Resolve Mathematical Problems

Would one like to know if a very large integer is a prime number or not? Or whether it is a “lucky number?”

3 Feb 2023

New Method to Create High-Energy “Quantum Light” to Explore Properties at Atomic Scale

The scientists, from the University of Cambridge, together with colleagues from Austria, the US, and Israel formulated a theory illustrating a new state of light, which has exploitable quantum properties across a wide range of frequencies, nearly as high as X-ray frequencies.

3 Feb 2023

A Major Tracking Component Installed Inside State-of-the-Art Particle Detector sPHENIX

Experts assembling sPHENIX, a state-of-the-art particle detector at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, successfully installed a major tracking component on Jan. 19.

3 Feb 2023