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TU Wien Researchers Succeed in Coupling Atomic Defects in Diamonds Using Quantum Physics

Diamonds with very little flaws are capable of playing a vital role in the future of quantum technology. The quantum properties of such diamonds were studied by researchers at TU Wien for some time.

11 Apr 2017

Astronomers Spot Distant Galaxy Using the Gravity of a Massive Galaxy Cluster as Lens

Astronomers led by a graduate student at the University of California, Davis, have discovered one of the most distant galaxies in the universe, and it’s nothing out of the ordinary.

11 Apr 2017

Rice University Physicists Provide New Insight into Quark-Gluon Plasma

Rice University physicists probe exotic state of nuclear matter at Europe’s LHC

11 Apr 2017

Astrophysicists Begin Installing Dark Matter Detector at Royal Holloway's Egham Campus

Dark matter influences the stars and galaxies around us, but despite being everywhere you can’t actually see it. The existence of dark matter is inferred from its gravitational interactions, but it has never been directly detected in a terrestrial laboratory.

10 Apr 2017

Scientists and Engineers Participate in Fourth Annual Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop

Quantum scientists and engineers from across the world have been in the city this week for the fourth annual Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop.

10 Apr 2017

KIT Professor Receives ERC Advanced Grant for Molecular Quantum Opto-Spintronics Project

Experimental physicist Professor Wolfgang Wernsdorfer of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) was selected by the European Research Council for funding with an ERC Advanced Grant for his project “Molecular Quantum Opto-Spintronics” (MoQuOS). MoQuOS covers optical manipulation and characterization of molecular quantum bits.

10 Apr 2017

Astronomers Explore Firework-Like Debris from Birth of a Group of Massive Stars

Stellar explosions are most often associated with supernovae, the spectacular deaths of stars. But new ALMA observations provide insights into explosions at the other end of the stellar life cycle, star birth.

10 Apr 2017

New Model System Enhances the Understanding of Processes in a Quantum-Physical Experiment

A model system that improves the understanding of processes in a quantum-physical experiment with ultracold atoms has been developed by two researchers at Heidelberg University. Prof. Dr Sandro Wimberger and David Fischer from the Institute for Theoretical Physics used computer-assisted methods to discover physical laws that point to this system’s universal properties.

10 Apr 2017

PPPL Physicists Study Effect of Different Wall Materials and Structures on Secondary Electron Emission

Everyone knows that the game of billiards involves balls careening off the sides of a pool table -- but few people may know that the same principle applies to fusion reactions.

7 Apr 2017

IPP Professor Thomas Sunn Pedersen Awarded First Ever Matter-Antimatter Plasma / ERC Advanced Grant

The European Research Council (ERC) is awarding 2.4 million euros in support of the research on a matter-antimatter plasma composed of electrons and positrons to be produced for the first time in the world by Professor Dr. Thomas Sunn Pedersen at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald.

7 Apr 2017

Argonne Researchers Create Skyrmions by using a Spiraling Focused Ion Beam

Like baristas creating beautiful spirals of creamy foam on the warm surfaces of lattes, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have found a way to control the creation of special textured surfaces in magnetically ordered materials.

7 Apr 2017

Researchers Simulate Self-Organized Flow of Superhot Plasma that Fuels Fusion Reactions

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and General Atomics have simulated a mysterious self-organized flow of the superhot plasma that fuels fusion reactions.

6 Apr 2017

Radio Astronomers Use Earth-Sized Telescope to Peer into Super-Massive Black Holes

Turning the Earth into one giant telescope by coordinating observations from instruments arrayed around the world, teams of radio astronomers are aiming their telescopes for the next 10 days at the thin edge - also known as the event horizon - of the super massive black hole at the center of our galaxy, the closest such object to Earth.

6 Apr 2017

Cornell University-Led Consortium to Build Powerful Telescope in Chile

A unique and powerful telescope capable of mapping the sky at submillimeter and millimeter wavelengths is headed to South America.

6 Apr 2017

Researchers Make Progress in Understanding a Key Mystery of Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics

Astrophysicists at the University of Birmingham have made progress in understanding a key mystery of gravitational-wave astrophysics: how two black holes can come together and merge.

6 Apr 2017

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TU Wien Researchers Succeed in Coupling Atomic Defects in Diamonds Using Quantum Physics

Astronomers Spot Distant Galaxy Using the Gravity of a Massive Galaxy Cluster as Lens

Rice University Physicists Provide New Insight into Quark-Gluon Plasma

Astrophysicists Begin Installing Dark Matter Detector at Royal Holloway's Egham Campus

Scientists and Engineers Participate in Fourth Annual Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop

KIT Professor Receives ERC Advanced Grant for Molecular Quantum Opto-Spintronics Project

Astronomers Explore Firework-Like Debris from Birth of a Group of Massive Stars

New Model System Enhances the Understanding of Processes in a Quantum-Physical Experiment

PPPL Physicists Study Effect of Different Wall Materials and Structures on Secondary Electron Emission

IPP Professor Thomas Sunn Pedersen Awarded First Ever Matter-Antimatter Plasma / ERC Advanced Grant

Argonne Researchers Create Skyrmions by using a Spiraling Focused Ion Beam

Researchers Simulate Self-Organized Flow of Superhot Plasma that Fuels Fusion Reactions

Radio Astronomers Use Earth-Sized Telescope to Peer into Super-Massive Black Holes

Cornell University-Led Consortium to Build Powerful Telescope in Chile

Researchers Make Progress in Understanding a Key Mystery of Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics

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