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Innovative Device Emits Photons from Quantum Dots to Power Communication Devices

Researchers at CRANN and the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin have created an innovative new device that will emit single particles of light, or photons, from quantum dots that are the key to practical quantum computers, quantum communications, and other quantum devices.

8 Jul 2020

Study Reveals Large Protoplanetary Particles have 10-nm Silicate Feature

Astrophysicists of Far Eastern Federal University with colleagues from Russia and overseas have revealed that large and dense particles with irregular shapes possess a 10 nm silicate feature introduced in lots of comets and protoplanetary discs.

8 Jul 2020

New Stellar Stream Indicates Merging of Dwarf Galaxy with Milky Way Disk

Astronomers can go their whole career without finding a new object in the sky.

8 Jul 2020

Researchers Realize Anomalous Floquet Phase in Optical Honeycomb Lattices

An international team led by physicists from the Ludwig-Maximilians Universitaet in Munich realized a novel genuine time-dependent topological system with ultracold atoms in periodically-driven optical honeycomb lattices.

7 Jul 2020

New Study Proposes Method for Realizing Parallel Quantum Random Walks

In physics, a very intuitive way of describing the evolution of a system proceeds via the specification of functions of the spatiotemporal coordinates.

7 Jul 2020

Final Breaths of Dying Stars Shed Light on Carbon's Origin in Milky Way

As dying stars take their final few breaths of life, they gently sprinkle their ashes into the cosmos through the magnificent planetary nebulae.

7 Jul 2020

Study Discovers, Analyzes White Dwarfs in Open Star Clusters in Milky Way

A new analysis of white dwarf stars supports their role as a key source of carbon, an element crucial to all life, in the Milky Way and other galaxies.

7 Jul 2020

Light-Based Approach can Help Explore Quantum Electrodynamics Phenomena

In a paper that made the cover of the journal Applied Physics Letters, an international team of researchers has demonstrated an innovative technique for increasing the intensity of lasers.

6 Jul 2020

Researchers Observe Ionized Structural Changes at the Center of Milky Way

Figuring out how much energy permeates the center of the Milky Way--a discovery reported in the July 3 edition of the journal Science Advances--could yield new clues to the fundamental source of our galaxy's power, said L. Matthew Haffner of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

6 Jul 2020