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Topological Insulator Samarium Hexaboride’s Insulating Property is Based on the Kondo Effect

The motion of electrons is at the heart of most electronic applications. However, in the quest for the next generation of devices, researchers are also interested in manipulating the electrons’ spins – their traits that make them into tiny magnets.

1 Aug 2014

MRI-Like Diagnostic Executed on Crystal of Interacting Quantum Spins

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which is the medical application of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, is a powerful diagnostic tool.

1 Aug 2014

Quantum Trajectories Can be Tracked

As a quantum state collapses from a quantum superposition to a classical state or a different superposition, it will follow a path known as a quantum trajectory.

1 Aug 2014

Gigantic Muon g-2 Electromagnet at Fermilab Moves Into New Building

One year ago, the 50-foot-wide Muon g-2 electromagnet arrived at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois after traveling 3,200 miles over land and sea from Long Island, New York. This week, the magnet took the final few steps of that journey, moving across the Fermilab site and into the new building that now houses it.

1 Aug 2014

Scientists Can Now Follow Quantum Systems into Quantum Territory

Groundskeepers and landscapers hate them, but there is no fighting them. Called desire paths, social trails or goat tracks, they are the unofficial shortcuts people create between two locations when the purpose-built path doesn’t take them where they want to go.

1 Aug 2014

Wildly Misaligned Planet-Forming Gas Discs Found Around Binary Star System

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found wildly misaligned planet-forming gas discs around the two young stars in the binary system HK Tauri.

31 Jul 2014

Novel Experiment Opens the Way for Active Quantum Control Techniques

One of the famous examples of the weirdness of quantum mechanics is the paradox of Schrödinger's cat.

31 Jul 2014

Scientists Demonstrate Samarium Hexaboride as a Topological Insulator

Spintronics is an emerging field of electronics, where devices work by manipulating the spin of electrons rather than the current generated by their motion. This field can offer significant advantages to computer technology. Controlling electron spin can be achieved with materials called 'topological insulators', which conduct electrons only across their surface but not through their interior.

31 Jul 2014

Cloud Pharma Awarded NSF Grant to Develop Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics-Based Inverse Design Computational Drug Discovery Platform

Cloud Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a therapeutics company focused on cloud-based drug design and development, announced today that it has been awarded a Phase I grant from the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research (NSF SBIR) program. The grant is valued at $150,000.

31 Jul 2014

DOE Funds Project to Improve SLAC-Invented Accelerator That Generates Intense X-rays

Even the cleverest invention is no good if no one gets to use it – and even the most useful invention may need a lot of tweaking to operate at its best. That’s why researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory collaborate with small businesses to develop technology so it can benefit the world at large.

31 Jul 2014

Milky Way May Have Only Half the Mass of Andromeda Galaxy

Does the Milky Way look fat in this picture? Has Andromeda been taking skinny selfies? It turns out the way some astrophysicists have been studying our galaxy made it appear that the Milky Way might be more massive than it's neighbor down the street, Andromeda.

31 Jul 2014

Mercury's Magnetic Field Stronger at its Northern Hemisphere

Earth and Mercury are both rocky planets with iron cores, but Mercury's interior differs from Earth's in a way that explains why the planet has such a bizarre magnetic field, UCLA planetary physicists and colleagues report.

31 Jul 2014

Closer to Proving Reliability of Quantum Computers

Physicists are one step closer to proving the reliability of a quantum computer – a machine which promises to revolutionise the way we trade over the internet and provide new tools to perform powerful simulations.

31 Jul 2014

Researchers Separate Properties of a Particle from the Particle Itself

Can neutrons be located at a different place than their own spin? A quantum experiment, carried out by a team of researchers from the Vienna University of Technology, demonstrates a new kind of quantum paradox

30 Jul 2014

Astronomers Resolve Puzzle About Fog of Low-Energy X-rays Over the Entire Sky

New findings from a NASA-funded instrument have resolved a decades-old puzzle about a fog of low-energy X-rays observed over the entire sky. Thanks to refurbished detectors first flown on a NASA sounding rocket in the 1970s, astronomers have now confirmed the long-held suspicion that much of this glow stems from a region of million-degree interstellar plasma known as the local hot bubble, or LHB.

30 Jul 2014

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Topological Insulator Samarium Hexaboride’s Insulating Property is Based on the Kondo Effect

MRI-Like Diagnostic Executed on Crystal of Interacting Quantum Spins

Quantum Trajectories Can be Tracked

Gigantic Muon g-2 Electromagnet at Fermilab Moves Into New Building

Scientists Can Now Follow Quantum Systems into Quantum Territory

Wildly Misaligned Planet-Forming Gas Discs Found Around Binary Star System

Novel Experiment Opens the Way for Active Quantum Control Techniques

Scientists Demonstrate Samarium Hexaboride as a Topological Insulator

Cloud Pharma Awarded NSF Grant to Develop Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics-Based Inverse Design Computational Drug Discovery Platform

DOE Funds Project to Improve SLAC-Invented Accelerator That Generates Intense X-rays

Milky Way May Have Only Half the Mass of Andromeda Galaxy

Mercury's Magnetic Field Stronger at its Northern Hemisphere

Closer to Proving Reliability of Quantum Computers

Researchers Separate Properties of a Particle from the Particle Itself

Astronomers Resolve Puzzle About Fog of Low-Energy X-rays Over the Entire Sky

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