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Seemingly Simple Phase Changes May Be More Complex Than Previously Known

The seemingly simple process of phase changes--those transitions between states of matter--is more complex than previously known, according to research based at Princeton University, Peking University and New York University.

7 Nov 2014

Astronomers Capture Best Image Ever of Planet Formation around Infant Star

Astronomers have captured the best image ever of planet formation around an infant star as part of the testing and verification process for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array's (ALMA) new high-resolution capabilities.

7 Nov 2014

Caltech Astronomers Detect Diffuse Cosmic Glow

Using an experiment carried into space on a NASA suborbital rocket, astronomers at Caltech and their colleagues have detected a diffuse cosmic glow that appears to represent more light than that produced by known galaxies in the universe.

7 Nov 2014

Hubble Completes Sensitive Visible-Light Imaging Survey of Dusty Debris Disks Around Stars

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have completed the largest and most sensitive visible-light imaging survey of dusty debris disks around other stars. These dusty disks, likely created by collisions between leftover objects from planet formation, were imaged around stars as young as 10 million years old and as mature as more than 1 billion years old.

7 Nov 2014

Novel Carbon Nanotube Mechanical Resonator May Enable Exciting Quantum Systems

In a recent paper published in Nature Nanotechnology, Joel Moser and ICFO colleagues of the NanoOptoMechanics research group led by Prof. Adrian Bachtold, together with Marc Dykman (Michigan University), report on an experiment in which a carbon nanotube mechanical resonator exhibits quality factors of up to 5 million, 30 times better than the best quality factors measured in nanotubes to date.

7 Nov 2014

U.Va.’s Accomplished Faculty Researchers Named as Distinguished Scientists

Two of the University of Virginia’s most accomplished faculty researchers – physicist Brad Cox and astronomer John Hawley – have been selected as 2014 Distinguished Scientists.

6 Nov 2014

Researchers Solve One of the Most Famous Problems in Quantum Information Physics

Since 1999, the conjecture by Asher Peres, who invented quantum teleportation, has piqued the interest of many scientists in the field. According to his hypothesis, the weakest form of quantum entanglement can never result in the strongest manifestation of the phenomenon.

6 Nov 2014

Quantum Materials Enters Agreement with STAR Park to Quadruple Quantum Dot Production Space

Quantum Materials Corp today announced it has signed an agreement with STAR Park that will quadruple the Company's Quantum Dot production space when the new state-of-the-art lab and offices are completed on or before June 2015. The Company is also recruiting to double its scientific staff effective January 2015.

6 Nov 2014

Scientists Demonstrate Practicality of Plasma Wakefield Acceleration

Scientists from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of California, Los Angeles have shown that a promising technique for accelerating electrons on waves of plasma is efficient enough to power a new generation of shorter, more economical accelerators. This could greatly expand their use in areas such as medicine, national security, industry and high-energy physics research.

6 Nov 2014

Cornell Professor Receives $2M Moore Foundation Grant to Explore Uncharted Territory in Quantum Physics

Some of the greatest moments in science may have happened when an experimenter said, “That probably won’t work, but let’s try it.”

5 Nov 2014

MIT’s QEG on a Mission to Harness Quantum Properties of Matter

MIT’s Quantum Engineering Group (QEG) has a challenging but potentially world-changing mission: to harness the quantum properties of matter for use in information technology, metrology, defense, healthcare, and many other fields.

5 Nov 2014

Gluons Contribute to Proton Spin

Results from experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a particle collider located at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, reveal new insights about how quarks and gluons, the subatomic building blocks of protons, contribute to the proton’s intrinsic angular momentum, a property more commonly known as “spin.” Specifically, the findings show for the first time that gluons make a significant contribution to proton spin, and that transient “sea quarks”—which form primarily when gluons split—also play a role.

5 Nov 2014

Dark Matter Could be Made of Macroscopic Objects

The physics community has spent three decades searching for and finding no evidence that dark matter is made of tiny exotic particles. Case Western Reserve University theoretical physicists suggest researchers consider looking for candidates more in the ordinary realm and, well, more massive.

5 Nov 2014

Structural Disorder Can Counteract Thermal Disorder and Lower Overall System Disorder

If you took the junk from the back of your closet and combined it with the dirty laundry already on your floor, you would have an even bigger mess. While this principle will likely always hold true for our bedrooms, it turns out that in certain situations, combining messes can actually reduce the disorder of the whole. An international team of researchers from Slovenia and Iran has identified a set of conditions in which adding disorder to a system makes it more orderly. This behavior is known as antifragility, a concept introduced recently to describe similar phenomena in statistics, economics and social science.

5 Nov 2014

Centre for Quantum Photonics Researcher to Present Paper on Waveguide Nanowire Superconducting Single-Photon Detectors

Dr Döndü Sahin, a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher from the Centre for Quantum Photonics, was invited to present a paper based on her PhD work for the Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics.

4 Nov 2014

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Seemingly Simple Phase Changes May Be More Complex Than Previously Known

Astronomers Capture Best Image Ever of Planet Formation around Infant Star

Caltech Astronomers Detect Diffuse Cosmic Glow

Hubble Completes Sensitive Visible-Light Imaging Survey of Dusty Debris Disks Around Stars

Novel Carbon Nanotube Mechanical Resonator May Enable Exciting Quantum Systems

U.Va.’s Accomplished Faculty Researchers Named as Distinguished Scientists

Researchers Solve One of the Most Famous Problems in Quantum Information Physics

Quantum Materials Enters Agreement with STAR Park to Quadruple Quantum Dot Production Space

Scientists Demonstrate Practicality of Plasma Wakefield Acceleration

Cornell Professor Receives $2M Moore Foundation Grant to Explore Uncharted Territory in Quantum Physics

MIT’s QEG on a Mission to Harness Quantum Properties of Matter

Gluons Contribute to Proton Spin

Dark Matter Could be Made of Macroscopic Objects

Structural Disorder Can Counteract Thermal Disorder and Lower Overall System Disorder

Centre for Quantum Photonics Researcher to Present Paper on Waveguide Nanowire Superconducting Single-Photon Detectors

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