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Electrons Use Quantum Mechanical Trick to Slip through Insulating Barrier

The first room-temperature light detector that can sense the full infrared spectrum has the potential to put heat vision technology into a contact lens.

17 Mar 2014

Warm Dust Observed in Environment of Supermassive Black Hole in Active Galaxy

An international research team led by Konrad Tristram from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, obtained the most detailed view so far of the warm dust in the environment of a supermassive black hole in an active galaxy.

14 Mar 2014

Researchers Control Rotational Temperature of Molecular Ions

Chemical reactions taking place in outer space can now be more easily studied on Earth. An international team of researchers from the University of Aarhus in Denmark and the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, discovered an efficient and versatile way of braking the rotation of molecular ions.

14 Mar 2014

Lasers Cool Atoms to Create New Type of ‘Ultracold’ Molecule

Researchers have created a new type of "ultracold" molecule, using lasers to cool atoms nearly to absolute zero and then gluing them together, a technology that might be applied to quantum computing, precise sensors and advanced simulations.

13 Mar 2014

Brookhaven Lab Physicist Honored with 2014 NSSA Science Prize

The Neutron Scattering Society of America (NSSA) has named Emil Bozin, a condensed matter physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, the recipient of their 2014 Science Prize.

13 Mar 2014

Attosecond Technology May Help Extend Domain of Electron Metrology into Optical Frequency Range

Light waves have the potential to boost the efficiency of conventional electronics by a factor of 100,000. In a review article that appears in “Nature Photonics” on March 14th, Prof. Ferenc Krausz of the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics (LAP) at the Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and his co-author Prof. Mark Stockman of Georgia State University (GSU) in Atlanta describe how this vision may one day come true.

13 Mar 2014

Quantum Cryptography May Help Secure Business Transactions

The way we secure digital transactions could soon change. An international team has demonstrated a form of quantum cryptography that can protect people doing business with others they may not know or trust – a situation encountered often on the internet and in everyday life, for example at a bank's ATM.

13 Mar 2014

SLAC Student to Receive Robert H. Siemann Graduate Fellowship in Physics

Spencer Gessner, a Stanford graduate student in physics, has been chosen as the third recipient of the Robert H. Siemann Graduate Fellowship in Physics. Established in memory of long-time SLAC accelerator physicist and Stanford faculty member Robert Siemann, the fellowship provides funding to outstanding graduate students who do accelerator physics research at SLAC.

13 Mar 2014

Quantum Materials Places Order for Equipment to Increase Production of Inorganic Quantum Dots

Quantum Materials Corp. (QMC) today announced it has placed purchase orders for the proprietary equipment necessary to commence increased production of inorganic quantum dots. The equipment is scheduled for delivery and deployment, on or before the end of the third quarter of 2014.

13 Mar 2014

Quantum Chaos Observed in Scattering Behavior of Ultracold Atoms

The team of Francesca Ferlaino, Institute for Experimental Physics of the University of Innsbruck, Austria, has experimentally shown chaotic behavior of particles in a quantum gas. "For the first time we have been able to observe quantum chaos in the scattering behavior of ultracold atoms," says an excited Ferlaino.

13 Mar 2014

Muon Spin Rotation Method Used to Investigate Magnetic Properties of Iridium Compound

The research unit that includes Associate Professor Kenji Kojima and Professor Ryosuke Kadono of the Institute of Materials Structure Science, KEK, investigated the magnetic properties of the iridium compound Cu1-xZnxIr2S4 using the muon spin rotation method. This was undertaken in collaboration with Principal Researcher Hiroyuki Suzuki and Unit Director Hideaki Kitazawa of the Advanced Key Technologies Division, NIMS.

13 Mar 2014

Liquid Hydrogen Study Provides Key Insights for Planetary Models

The atmosphere of gas giants consists mainly of hydrogen, which is the most abundant chemical element in the universe. "We have very little experimental knowledge about the hydrogen in the interior of such planets," says Zastrau. "This is despite our very good theoretical models."

12 Mar 2014

Astronomers Discover Galaxies that were Already Mature and Massive in Early Days

Some galaxies grew up in a hurry. Most of the galaxies that have been observed from the early days of the universe were young and actively forming stars. Now, an international team of astronomers, including Carnegie's Eric Persson and Andy Monson, have discovered galaxies that were already mature and massive in the early days.

12 Mar 2014

Another Important Confirmation for D-Wave's Quantum Processor, says Harris & Harris Group

Harris & Harris Group, Inc., an investor in transformative companies enabled by disruptive science, notes the article posted by Robert Perkins on Phys.Org on Harris & Harris Group's portfolio company, D-Wave Systems, Inc., on March 5, 2014. The article, titled "D-Wave chip passes rigorous tests," discusses the results of research published on February 28, 2014, in Nature Physics.

11 Mar 2014

High School Students to Participate in International Masterclass on Particle Physics

More than 20 local high school students have been invited to participate in an international masterclass on particle physics in The College of Arts and Sciences. The event, which is Wednesday, March 12, will enable them to analyze data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest, most powerful particle accelerator, located at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland.

11 Mar 2014

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Electrons Use Quantum Mechanical Trick to Slip through Insulating Barrier

Warm Dust Observed in Environment of Supermassive Black Hole in Active Galaxy

Researchers Control Rotational Temperature of Molecular Ions

Lasers Cool Atoms to Create New Type of ‘Ultracold’ Molecule

Brookhaven Lab Physicist Honored with 2014 NSSA Science Prize

Attosecond Technology May Help Extend Domain of Electron Metrology into Optical Frequency Range

Quantum Cryptography May Help Secure Business Transactions

SLAC Student to Receive Robert H. Siemann Graduate Fellowship in Physics

Quantum Materials Places Order for Equipment to Increase Production of Inorganic Quantum Dots

Quantum Chaos Observed in Scattering Behavior of Ultracold Atoms

Muon Spin Rotation Method Used to Investigate Magnetic Properties of Iridium Compound

Liquid Hydrogen Study Provides Key Insights for Planetary Models

Astronomers Discover Galaxies that were Already Mature and Massive in Early Days

Another Important Confirmation for D-Wave's Quantum Processor, says Harris & Harris Group

High School Students to Participate in International Masterclass on Particle Physics

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