Physicists Create a Condensate of Erbium
A research team at the University of Innsbruck is the first to successfully create a condensate of the element erbium, making it the third chemical…
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Unexpected Graphite Experiment Results Raise New Questions
While using a technique to simultaneously blast and probe samples of graphite, scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory saw ultrafast changes from solid to liquid…
High-Energy Radiation is Refracted Setting the Stage for Gamma Optics
New research into gamma rays has led to a discovery that will make many new applications possible in medicine and materials research. Physicists at the…
Experimental Evidence Shows Iron-Based Superconductors Exhibit S-Wave Symmetry
While using an instrument to measure the detailed superconducting gap structure of the ferropnictide superconductor BaFe2(As0.7P0.3)2, physicists discovered experimental evidence that iron-based superconductors fall into…
MAJORANA, the Underground Experiment that Could Rewrite the Standard Model
Searching for the answer to the question of whether neutrinos are their own antiparticles, the MAJORANA Collaboration has an underground experiment that could rewrite the…
Quantum Theorists State That Wavefunctions Are Real, States Not Just Statistical Tools
The mathematics behind the claims of a group of quantum theorists state that the wavefunction, a probability amplitude used to in quantum mechanics to describe…
Physicists in China Break Quantum Teleportation Record
Chinese physicists have just broken the previous record for quantum teleportation with the creation of a pair of entangled protons over a distance of almost…
Dark Matter in Form of WIMPs Hits Humans Once a Minute
New calculations have shown that the average human gets hit by a particle of dark matter about once a minute. Dark matter, which is supposed…
Gamma Ray Lens Created Using Amplifying Effect of Virtual Electron-Positron Pairs
It was previously thought that making a lens out of highly energetic light, gamma rays, was impossible. Physicists have created such a lens and think…
Entropy and Particle Shape Cause Chirality in Dense Systems
To better understand why functional molecules in our bodies almost always occur in just one chiral form, UCLA scientists sought to discover how chirality occurs….
Physicists Predict Properties of Prime Numbers from Freezing Liquids
Physicists from Queen Mary’s School of Mathematical Sciences, together with colleagues from Bristol University, discovered a pattern in frozen glasses that relates to prime numbers….
Discussing the Search for the Higgs Particle
Does the Higgs boson particle exits? What happens if we find it and what if we don’t? These are just a few of the questions…
Realization of a “Gedankenexperiment”
A new study set to be published this week describes how physicists at the University of Vienna demonstrated in an experiment that the decision whether…
Splitting of an Electron into the Spinon and Orbiton
While using X-rays from the Swiss Light Source (SLS) fired at Sr2CuO3, physicists at the Paul Scherrer Institute observed an electron splitting into two new…
First Universal Quantum Network Prototype Operational
Quantum physicists have constructed an elementary network for storing and exchanging quantum information. The network was setup with two all-purpose nodes, which can send, receive…
Physicists Use Cheap Colliders to Probe for Heavy Photons
A three-week experiment is set to start on April 24th at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Virginia, in which electrons will…
Cooling of Excitons Leads to a New State of Matter
A newly published paper details the findings made by physicists while measuring the coherence and spin of excitons in a refrigerated system. The team discovered…
Quantum Interference Shown Experimentally in Larger Molecules
Particle-wave duality is one of the most mysterious facets of quantum physics. It states that every quantum object has properties of both a wave and…
