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Twirling Quantum Particles Undulating Through Hybrid Semiconductors Create Optimal Optoelectronic Properties

Quality solar panels and LED lights and monitors were the results of a revolution in the field of semiconductors. These devices have the ability to efficiently convert energy into light or vice versa.

16 Jan 2019

Astrophysicists Find First-Ever Evidence of Super-Remnants from Andromeda Galaxy

For the first time, astrophysicists have discovered the evidence of formation of gigantic remains due to frequent explosions on a dead star’s surface in the Andromeda Galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years from Earth.

10 Jan 2019

Researcher Intends to Extend the Application of Attosecond Spectroscopy into Soft X-Ray Region

This year, at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ), attosecond research has received a further thrust. Matthias Kling (LMU Munich) has been appointed by the Max Planck Society as a Max Planck Fellow at the MPQ for five years.

9 Jan 2019

Measuring the Interaction of Nanoplatelets with Light Could Advance Operation of Quantum Optic Networks

Quantum optic networks have been moved one step closer to reality, thanks to the efforts of researchers.

3 Jan 2019

Researchers Observe Warped Disk Around Early Protostar for the First Time

For the first time, scientists have observed a warped disk surrounding an infant protostar that formed merely several tens of thousands of years ago. The researchers achieved this by using observations from the ALMA radio observatory in Chile.

2 Jan 2019

Array of Light-Sensing Photomultiplier Tubes Constructed for Massive New Dark Matter Detector

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter detector, which will soon begin its hunt for the mysterious particles believed to account for a bulk of matter in the universe, had its first set of “eyes” delivered recently.

18 Dec 2018

Researchers Directly Observe Stretching of Magnetic Ordering in One-Dimensional Quantum Systems

Guillaume Salomon, a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and a group of researchers have been successful in directly observing a basic effect of 1D quantum systems. They achieved this by investigating ultracold atoms trapped in artificial crystals of light.

14 Dec 2018

Rings of Gas Around Active Supermassive Black Holes are Actually Highly Dynamic Gaseous Components

On the basis of computer simulations and new observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), scientists have discovered that the rings of gas surrounding active supermassive black holes are not just donut shapes.

3 Dec 2018

Astronomers Resolve the “Broad Line Region” Around Quasar 3C 273

The structure of rapidly moving gas surrounding the central super-massive black hole of the quasar 3C 273 has been revealed by extensive observations of the quasar using the GRAVITY instrument.

30 Nov 2018

Supermassive Black Hole Visualized in Virtual Reality Simulation for the First Time

For the first time, scientists have visualized Sagittarius A*—the black hole at the middle of the galaxy—in virtual reality (VR) simulation. The details of the study have been reported in an article published in the open access journal Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology.

19 Nov 2018

Quantum Optics News

Twirling Quantum Particles Undulating Through Hybrid Semiconductors Create Optimal Optoelectronic Properties

Astrophysicists Find First-Ever Evidence of Super-Remnants from Andromeda Galaxy

Researcher Intends to Extend the Application of Attosecond Spectroscopy into Soft X-Ray Region

Measuring the Interaction of Nanoplatelets with Light Could Advance Operation of Quantum Optic Networks

Researchers Observe Warped Disk Around Early Protostar for the First Time

Array of Light-Sensing Photomultiplier Tubes Constructed for Massive New Dark Matter Detector

Researchers Directly Observe Stretching of Magnetic Ordering in One-Dimensional Quantum Systems

Rings of Gas Around Active Supermassive Black Holes are Actually Highly Dynamic Gaseous Components

Astronomers Resolve the “Broad Line Region” Around Quasar 3C 273

Supermassive Black Hole Visualized in Virtual Reality Simulation for the First Time

IRTracer-100 FTIR Spectrophotometer with Improved Detector Design from Shimadzu

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1 Researchers Reproduce Thermodynamic Properties of Water from Quantum Mechanics

2 Sandia-Led Research Projects Aim at Speeding Up Quantum Algorithms over Classical Ones

3 Researchers Realize Arbitrary Quantum Channel Simulation for Single Qubit in Superconducting Quantum Circuit

4 Using Terahertz Spectroscopy to Unravel New State of Matter in Iron Pnictide Superconductor

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