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New Study Describes ZTF J1406+1222 — A New Possible Black Widow Star

A fast spinning dead star known as a pulsar attacks its orbiting partner with radiation, gradually evaporating it in black widow star systems.

5 May 2022

Novel Electron-On-Solid-Neon Qubit Could Revolutionize Quantum Computing

You are no doubt viewing this article on a digital device whose basic unit of information is the bit, either 0 or 1.

5 May 2022

New Qubit Platform Shows Promise to be Developed into Ideal Building Blocks for Quantum Computers

The fundamental building blocks of a quantum computer are quantum bits, or qubits. Some of the most common examples of qubits are based on the different energy states of single electrons.

5 May 2022

An Ideal Qubit Platform may be on the Horizon

New qubit platform could transform quantum information science and technology.

5 May 2022

Advancement in Spacecraft Navigation — Researchers Use X-Rays from Dead Stars

Pulsars are the magnetically charged remnants of a shattered neutron star that spin at speeds ranging from one to hundreds of rotations per second.

4 May 2022

Particle Accelerator Performance may be Improved by Adding Oxygen

Scientists have developed a new theoretical model for preparing particle accelerator structures made of niobium metal. The model predicts how oxygen in the thin oxide layer on the surface of the niobium metal moves deeper into the metal.

4 May 2022

New System of Control and Readout Electronics Could Improve Quantum Computer Performance, Reduce Costs

When designing a next-generation quantum computer, a surprisingly large problem is bridging the communication gap between the classical and quantum worlds.

3 May 2022

CSIRO Telescope Dons ‘Sunglasses’ to Find Brightest Ever Pulsar

An international research team, including scientists at Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, have used a new observation technique to discover the brightest extragalactic pulsar known, and it could even be the most luminous one ever found.

3 May 2022

Search Reveals Eight New Sources of Black Hole Echoes

Scattered across our Milky Way galaxy are tens of millions of black holes —immensely strong gravitational wells of spacetime, from which infalling matter, and even light, can never escape. Black holes are dark by definition, except on the rare occasions when they feed.

3 May 2022

Research Highlights How the Most Severe Type of Magnetic Reconnection Occurs

A solar flare can unleash enough energy to power the whole earth for 20,000 years in only minutes.

29 Apr 2022

KIT Scientists Receive ERC Advanced Grant for Research Projects in Technical Informatics and Quantum Physics

Double success for KIT: In its 2021 awarding round, the European Research Council (ERC) has decided to award an Advanced Grant each to computer scientist Mehdi Tahoori and physicist Alexey Ustinov.

29 Apr 2022

Experiment Paves the Way to Directly Explore High-Dimension Topological Physics in a Compact Platform

Prof. LI Chuanfeng, Prof. XU Jinshi, Prof. HAN Yongjian, and their colleagues from Prof. GUO Guangcan's group at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have first synthesized a one-dimensional (1D) lattice via introducing photon's spin-orbit coupling in a cavity. This work was published in Nature Communications.

28 Apr 2022