For “Star Wars” fans, the streaking stars seen from the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon as it jumps to hyperspace is a canonical image.
An almost pure argon deposit that has been left untouched since the formation of the Earth is set to help physicists gather better insight into the universe.
Catalysts are tricky things, but without them, our world would be a lot dirtier.
Professor Alexandre Tkatchenko, head of the Department of Physics and Materials Science and professor of theoretical chemical physics at the University of Luxembourg, has been awarded an Advanced Grant (AdG), the most prestigious single-investigator award offered by the European Research Council (ERC).
For "Star Wars" fans, the streaking stars seen from the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon as it jumps to hyperspace is a canonical image. But what would a pilot actually see if she could accelerate in an instant through the vacuum of space- According to a prediction known as the Unruh effect, she would more likely see a warm glow.
The European Research Council (ERC) awards ERC Advanced Grants to established top scientists for their outstanding scientific research. They receive up to 2.5 million euros over a period of five years as funding for their basic research.
In theoretical particle physics, a new and interesting duality has been discovered. The duality exists between two kinds of scattering processes that are likely to take place in the proton collisions made in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland and France.
A research team led by the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) was recently selected for second-phase funding of a $9.2 million project aimed at demonstrating a hybrid computing system that will combine the advantages of classical computing with those of quantum computing to tackle some of the world's most difficult optimization problems.
New experimental evidence for a rare quantum spin liquid phase in Ce2Zr2O7 has been provided by analysis of neutron scattering, heat capacity, and magnetic susceptibility measurements.
Quantum computers process and store information digitally, just like conventional computers. They do not, however, use switchable circuits that are either on or off-;they rather use quantum physical systems that can adopt the two states simultaneously.
So-called kagome metals, named after the Japanese woven bamboo pattern their structure resembles, feature symmetrical patterns of interlaced, corner-sharing triangles. This unusual lattice geometry and its inherent features lead, in turn, to curious quantum phenomena such as unconventional, or high-temperature, superconductivity.
Using ultrafast laser light pulses, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a new way to generate nano-sized magnetic particles.
Earlier, it was thought that post-starburst galaxies scatter all of their gas and dust—the fuel needed to create new stars—in violent bursts of energy, and at incredible speeds.
Magnetic reconnection is a puzzling phenomenon that causes explosive occurrences throughout the cosmos, including solar flares and space storms, which may disrupt cell phone service and electrical power systems.
Physicists, from the University of California Irvine, have shown the use of a hydrogen molecule act as quantum sensor in a scanning tunneling microscope paired with a terahertz laser, a technology that allows for unprecedented time and spatial resolutions in measuring chemical characteristics of materials.
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