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ESO's VLT Reveals Spectacular Red Cloud of Glowing Hydrogen Gas Behind Blue Foreground Stars

This new image from ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile shows a spectacular red cloud of glowing hydrogen gas behind a collection of blue foreground stars. Within RCW 34 -- located in the southern constellation of Vela -- a group of massive young stars hide in the brightest region of the cloud [1]. These stars have a dramatic effect on the nebula. Gas exposed to strong ultraviolet radiation -- as occurs in the heart of this nebula -- becomesionised, meaning that the electrons have escaped the hydrogen atoms.

28 May 2015

Reality Does Not Exist Until Measured

The bizarre nature of reality as laid out by quantum theory has survived another test, with scientists performing a famous experiment and proving that reality does not exist until it is measured.

28 May 2015

Quantum Tunneling Found to be an Instantaneous Process

An international team of scientists studying ultrafast physics have solved a mystery of quantum mechanics, and found that quantum tunneling is an instantaneous process.

28 May 2015

Physicists Simulate ‘Nonexistent’ Charged Majorana Particles

Jena (Germany) March 1938: The Italian elementary particle physicist Ettore Majorana boarded a post ship in Naples, heading for Palermo. But he either never arrives there - or he leaves the city straight away - ever since that day there has been no trace of the exceptional scientist and until today his mysterious disappearance remains unresolved. Since then, Majorana, a pupil of the Nobel Prize winner Enrico Fermi, has more or less been forgotten. What the scientific world does remember though is a theory about nuclear forces, which he developed, and a very particular elementary particle.

28 May 2015

Significant Advance Towards Unifying General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics

A collaboration of physicists and a mathematician has made a significant step toward unifying general relativity and quantum mechanics by explaining how spacetime emerges from quantum entanglement in a more fundamental theory. The paper announcing the discovery by Hirosi Ooguri, a Principal Investigator at the University of Tokyo's Kavli IPMU, with Caltech mathematician Matilde Marcolli and graduate students Jennifer Lin and Bogdan Stoica, will be published in Physical Review Letters as an Editors' Suggestion "for the potential interest in the results presented and on the success of the paper in communicating its message, in particular to readers from other fields."

28 May 2015

Disc-Shaped Bright Ring of Dust Identified Around Star in the Centaurus Constellation

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Cambridge, has identified a young planetary system which may aid in understanding how our own solar system formed and developed billions of years ago.

28 May 2015

Astronomers Discover Rear-End Collision Between Two High-Speed Knots of Ejected Matter

When you're blasting though space at more than 98 percent of the speed of light, you may need driver's insurance. Astronomers have discovered for the first time a rear-end collision between two high-speed knots of ejected matter. This discovery was made while piecing together a time-lapse movie of a plasma jet blasted from a supermassive black hole inside a galaxy located 260 million light-years from earth.

28 May 2015

Max Planck Researchers Listen for Gravitational Waves with the GEO600 Detector

A century ago, Albert Einstein postulated the existence of gravitational waves in his General Theory of Relativity. But until now, these distortions of space-time have remained stubbornly hidden from direct observation. At the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hanover, researchers are on the trail of this phenomenon with the GEO600 detector. At the heart of the installation is a laser.

28 May 2015

Moore Foundation Grant Helps Probe Mysteries of Quantum Materials with Advanced Ultrafast Laser

Researchers at UBC will be able to probe the mysteries of quantum materials with a new state-of-the-art ultrafast laser, thanks to a $1.4 million US grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

28 May 2015

JQI Undergraduate Receives IPST Monroe Martin Prize

Michael Kossin, an undergraduate who works with JQI Fellow Luis Orozco, has been awarded an IPST Monroe Martin Prize for Undergraduate Research in Physics for his paper, "Production of a Polarizing Millimeter-Wave Fabry-Perot Resonator.” He also earned Departmental High Honors. This summer Kossin will work with Professor Alejandro Garcia at the University of Washington, whose research involves weak interactions in the nucleus. Kossin plans to attend graduate school in 2016.

27 May 2015

New Calculations by UAH Astrophysicist Throw Light on Fluid Dynamics

New calculations by a theoretical astrophysicist at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) provide tools that open a door to exploring the history of events in astrophysical flows and in plasma fusion devices described by magnetohydrodynamics (MHD).

27 May 2015

JQI Researchers Study Magnetization Dynamics in Checkerboard Optical Lattice

Physicists use theoretical and experimental techniques to develop explanations of the goings-on in nature. Somewhat surprisingly, many phenomena such as electrical conduction can be explained through relatively simplified mathematical pictures — models that were constructed well before the advent of modern computation. And then there are things in nature that push even the limits of high performance computing and sophisticated experimental tools.

27 May 2015

Highly Stable, Squeezed Schrödinger Cats Hold Promise for Quantum Computers

Quantum physics is full of fascinating phenomena. Take, for instance, the cat from the famous thought experiment by the physicist Erwin Schrodinger. The cat can be dead and alive at once, since its life depends on the quantum mechanically determined state of a radioactively decaying atom which, in turn, releases toxic gas into the cat's cage. As long as one hasn't measured the state of the atom, one knows nothing about the poor cat's health either - atom and kitty are intimately "entangled" with each other.

27 May 2015

Supernovas Work in Tandem with Huge Black Holes to 'Clean' Galaxies

Supernovas just might be the maid service of the universe.

27 May 2015

Researchers Develop New Quantum Error Correcting Code

Quantum computers are largely theoretical devices that could perform some computations exponentially faster than conventional computers can. Crucial to most designs for quantum computers is quantum error correction, which helps preserve the fragile quantum states on which quantum computation depends.

26 May 2015

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ESO's VLT Reveals Spectacular Red Cloud of Glowing Hydrogen Gas Behind Blue Foreground Stars

Reality Does Not Exist Until Measured

Quantum Tunneling Found to be an Instantaneous Process

Physicists Simulate ‘Nonexistent’ Charged Majorana Particles

Significant Advance Towards Unifying General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics

Disc-Shaped Bright Ring of Dust Identified Around Star in the Centaurus Constellation

Astronomers Discover Rear-End Collision Between Two High-Speed Knots of Ejected Matter

Max Planck Researchers Listen for Gravitational Waves with the GEO600 Detector

Moore Foundation Grant Helps Probe Mysteries of Quantum Materials with Advanced Ultrafast Laser

JQI Undergraduate Receives IPST Monroe Martin Prize

New Calculations by UAH Astrophysicist Throw Light on Fluid Dynamics

JQI Researchers Study Magnetization Dynamics in Checkerboard Optical Lattice

Highly Stable, Squeezed Schrödinger Cats Hold Promise for Quantum Computers

Supernovas Work in Tandem with Huge Black Holes to 'Clean' Galaxies

Researchers Develop New Quantum Error Correcting Code

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