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Researchers Reveal Performance Degradation Mechanism of Electrodeless, Helicon Plasma Thruster

A part of the performance degradation mechanism of the advanced, electrodeless, helicon plasma thruster with a magnetic nozzle, has been revealed by the research group of Dr. Kazunori Takahashi and Prof. Akira Ando at Tohoku University's Department of Electrical Engineering.

14 May 2015

A Space with the Weakest Magnetic Field in the Solar System

Magnetic fields easily penetrate matter. Creating a space practically devoid of magnetic fields thus presents a great challenge. An international team of physicists has now developed a shielding that dampens low frequency magnetic fields more than a million-fold.

14 May 2015

Live Viewing of Attosecond Recombination of Electron Shells in Molecules

The recombination of electron shells in molecules, taking just a few dozen attoseconds (a billionth of a billionth of a second), can now be viewed "live," thanks to a new method developed by MIPT researchers and their colleagues from Denmark, Japan and Switzerland. An article detailing the results of their study has been published in the journal Nature Communications.

14 May 2015

Strangulation Could be the Primary Cause of Galactic Death

As murder mysteries go, it's a big one: how do galaxies die and what kills them? A new study, published today in the journal Nature, has found that the primary cause of galactic death is strangulation, which occurs after galaxies are cut off from the raw materials needed to make new stars.

14 May 2015

CMS-LHCb Joint Analysis Establishes Extremely Rare Decay of Bs Particle into Two Muons

Two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, have combined their results and observed a previously unseen subatomic process.

14 May 2015

Swing-Dancing' Electrons Could Help Develop New Quantum Devices

A research team led by the University of Pittsburgh's Jeremy Levy has discovered electrons that can "swing dance." This unique electronic behavior can potentially lead to new families of quantum devices.

14 May 2015

Researchers Design and Operate Working Superconducting Qubit Devices

Professor Oleg Astafiev, jointly appointed Professor at Royal Holloway and Visiting Professor at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), and his team of researchers, have designed, built and operated the first working superconducting qubit devices in the UK.

13 May 2015

New Magnetic Shield Achieves Extremely Low Magnetic Field over a Large Volume

The Standard Model of particle physics, sometimes called "The Theory of Almost Everything," is the best set of equations to date that describes the universe's fundamental particles and how they interact.

13 May 2015

Topological State of New Family of Materials can be Observed Directly

They are 'strange' materials, insulators on the inside and conductors on the surface. They also have properties that make them excellent candidates for the development of spintronics ('spin-based electronics') and more in general quantum computing. However, they are also elusive as their properties are extremely difficult to observe.

13 May 2015

ERC Awards €2.5 Million Grant for Project on Scalable Quantum Photonic Networks

Peter Lodahl, professor and head of the Quantum Photonics research group at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, has received a large and prestigious grant from the European Research Council, the ERC Advanced Grant. The grant of just over 18.6 million kroner (2½ million euro) has a duration of five years and is for the project: Scalable Quantum Photonic Networks.

13 May 2015

A Single Nuclear Spin Could Possibly be Detected at Room Temperature

For the first time, a researcher at the University of Waterloo has theoretically demonstrated that it is possible to detect a single nuclear spin at room temperature, which could pave the way for new approaches to medical diagnostics.

13 May 2015

Magic Wavelengths to Tune Rydberg Atoms for Quantum Information Applications

Rydberg atoms, atoms whose outermost electrons are highly excited but not ionized, might be just the thing for processing quantum information. These outsized atoms can be sustained for a long time in a quantum superposition condition -- a good thing for creating qubits -- and they can interact strongly with other such atoms, making them useful for devising the kind of logic gates needed to process information. Scientists at JQI (*) and at other labs are pursuing this promising research area.

12 May 2015

Penn State Student Honored for Co-Discovery of Never-Before-Seen Pulsar

A team of highly determined high school students, which included current Penn State University sophomore and Schreyer Honors College Scholar Cecilia McGough, has discovered a never-before-seen pulsar by painstakingly analyzing data from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT). Further observations by astronomers using the GBT have revealed that this pulsar has the widest orbit of any around a neutron star and is part of only a handful of double neutron star systems.

12 May 2015

ONR Honors JQI Fellow with Young Investigator Award

JQI Fellow Mohammad Hafezi was announced as a recipient of a 2015 ONR Young Investigator award. ONR's website describes the program as being designed to promote the professional development of early-career academic scientists – called investigators, or YIPs – both as researchers and instructors. For awardees, the funding supports laboratory equipment, graduate student stipends and scholarships, and other expenses critical to ongoing and planned investigational studies.

12 May 2015

Brookhaven Lab Team Receives Prestigious Award for Building Superconducting Hadron Collider Magnets

Following the much-anticipated recent restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, a 17-member team primarily based at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory was recognized with one of DOE's most prestigious awards for successfully completing two superconducting magnets for the 17-mile-circumference collider.

12 May 2015

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Researchers Reveal Performance Degradation Mechanism of Electrodeless, Helicon Plasma Thruster

A Space with the Weakest Magnetic Field in the Solar System

Live Viewing of Attosecond Recombination of Electron Shells in Molecules

Strangulation Could be the Primary Cause of Galactic Death

CMS-LHCb Joint Analysis Establishes Extremely Rare Decay of Bs Particle into Two Muons

Swing-Dancing' Electrons Could Help Develop New Quantum Devices

Researchers Design and Operate Working Superconducting Qubit Devices

New Magnetic Shield Achieves Extremely Low Magnetic Field over a Large Volume

Topological State of New Family of Materials can be Observed Directly

ERC Awards €2.5 Million Grant for Project on Scalable Quantum Photonic Networks

A Single Nuclear Spin Could Possibly be Detected at Room Temperature

Magic Wavelengths to Tune Rydberg Atoms for Quantum Information Applications

Penn State Student Honored for Co-Discovery of Never-Before-Seen Pulsar

ONR Honors JQI Fellow with Young Investigator Award

Brookhaven Lab Team Receives Prestigious Award for Building Superconducting Hadron Collider Magnets

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