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Skyrmions Found to Exist in Ultrathin Magnetic Layers and Multilayers

At present, tiny magnetic whirls – so called skyrmions – are discussed as promising candidates for bits in future robust and compact data storage devices. At the University of Hamburg these exotic magnetic structures were recently found to exist in ultrathin magnetic layers and multilayers, similar to the ones used in current hard-disk drives and magnetic sensors.

7 Oct 2015

Festo Demonstrates Future Concept with Superconductor Technology at Motek 2015

Superconductors are opening up possibilities for entirely new, previously unthinkable applications in automation technology.

7 Oct 2015

Heat, Instead of Light, Can Help Better Study Electron Spin

The quest to control and understand the intrinsic spin of electrons to advance nanoscale electronics is hampered by how hard it is to measure tiny, fast magnetic devices.

7 Oct 2015

UTA Physicist Honored with APS Award for Lifelong Contributions in Particle Physics

UTA Physicist David Nygren, a member of the National Academy of Science, has been honored as one of two recipients of a new American Physical Society's instrumentation award for his widespread and lifelong contributions in the field of particle physics.

7 Oct 2015

Astronomers Create "Habitability Index for Transiting Planets"

Astronomers with the University of Washington's Virtual Planetary Laboratory have created a way to compare and rank exoplanets to help prioritize which of the thousands discovered warrant close inspection in the search for life beyond Earth.

6 Oct 2015

SLAC’s Upgraded High-Power Laser Could Help Recreate Universe’s Most Extreme Conditions

A newly upgraded high-power laser at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory will blaze new trails across many fields of science by recreating the universe’s most extreme conditions, such as those at the heart of stars and planets, in a lab.

6 Oct 2015

Superconductivity Could Promote Magnetization Under Certain Conditions

Superconductivity, which is almost incompatible with magneticfield, under certain conditions is able to promote magnetization. Russian scientist Natalya Pugach from the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University discovered this yet to be explained effect with her British colleagues, whose theory group headed by Professor Matthias Eschrig.

6 Oct 2015

Realization of Two-Qubit Logic Gate Increases Feasibility of Building Quantum Computers

The significant advance, by a team at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney appears today in the international journal Nature.

6 Oct 2015

Physicists Demonstrate Games of Quantum Billiards with Unusual New Rules

Physicists have wondered in recent years if they could control how atoms interact using light. Now they know that they can, by demonstrating games of quantum billiards with unusual new rules.

6 Oct 2015

Most Comprehensive Images of Milky Way's Star-Forming Clouds

Astronomers have long turned their telescopes, be they on satellites in space or observatories on Earth, to the wide swaths of interstellar medium to get a look at the formation and birth of stars.

6 Oct 2015

Researchers Successfully Record Structures of Electron Orbitals in 3D

Many of you will remember them from your physics lessons at school: often represented as colourful clouds or balloons, electron orbitals provide information on the whereabouts of the electrons in atoms and molecules.

6 Oct 2015

New Method to Measure Mass of Pulsars

Researchers from the University of Southampton have developed a new method for measuring the mass of pulsars - highly magnetised rotating neutron stars formed from the remains of massive stars after they explode into supernovae.

6 Oct 2015

Proton-Lead Collisions Produce Smaller Liquid Droplets

This existential question has been raised by a series of experiments conducted recently at the Large Hadron Collider and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider that smash various atomic particles together at nearly the speed of light in order to create tiny drops of primordial soup.

6 Oct 2015

Researchers Clarify Unique Nature of Electron Partitioning Process in Graphene

A group of researchers from Osaka University, The University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, and the National Institute for Materials Science precisely conducted current-fluctuation (“shot noise”) measurement in the graphene p–n junction in the quantum Hall regime. This group found that the non-zero shot noise appears in the bipolar regime of the junction, while the noise is absent in the unipolar regime. This clearly tells that the electron partition process exists at the co-propagating edge states along the p–n junction. This group's achievement, which is consistent with the theory predicted in 2008, gives microscopic evidence that the edge states are mixed along the junction for the first time. This is an important step toward clarifying the unique nature of the electron partition process in graphene and designing new-type electron interferometer devices using graphene in the quantum Hall regime.

5 Oct 2015

Rosetta Observes Dark Side of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Since its arrival at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft has been surveying the surface and the environment of this curiously shaped body. But for a long time, a portion of the nucleus -- the dark, cold regions around the comet's south pole -- remained inaccessible to almost all instruments on the spacecraft.

5 Oct 2015

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Skyrmions Found to Exist in Ultrathin Magnetic Layers and Multilayers

Festo Demonstrates Future Concept with Superconductor Technology at Motek 2015

Heat, Instead of Light, Can Help Better Study Electron Spin

UTA Physicist Honored with APS Award for Lifelong Contributions in Particle Physics

Astronomers Create "Habitability Index for Transiting Planets"

SLAC’s Upgraded High-Power Laser Could Help Recreate Universe’s Most Extreme Conditions

Superconductivity Could Promote Magnetization Under Certain Conditions

Realization of Two-Qubit Logic Gate Increases Feasibility of Building Quantum Computers

Physicists Demonstrate Games of Quantum Billiards with Unusual New Rules

Most Comprehensive Images of Milky Way's Star-Forming Clouds

Researchers Successfully Record Structures of Electron Orbitals in 3D

New Method to Measure Mass of Pulsars

Proton-Lead Collisions Produce Smaller Liquid Droplets

Researchers Clarify Unique Nature of Electron Partitioning Process in Graphene

Rosetta Observes Dark Side of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

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