Kendall Mehling, left, and Catie LeDesma, right, with a new kind of atom “interferometer” on the CU Boulder campus. Credit: Glenn Asakawa/CU Boulder In a new study, physicists at the…
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Two different time scales could increase quantum clock accuracy exponentially
Artist’s impression of a quantum clock. Credit: Alexander Rommel & TU Wien How can the strange properties of quantum particles be exploited to perform extremely accurate measurements? This question is…
Physicists set new world record for qubit operation accuracy
A rendering of the Oxford University team’s ion trap chip. Credit: Dr. Jochen Wolf and Dr. Tom Harty. Physicists at the University of Oxford have set a new global benchmark…
Nonreciprocal light speed control achieved using cavity magnonics device
Photons in a dielectric resonator (yellow) interact with magnons in a YIG sphere (violet) via a microstrip (gray). This interaction acts as a ‘traffic light’ for microwave pulses—speeding them up…
Phase-resolved attoclock precisely measures electron tunneling time
Resolving tunneling time using attoclocks. Credit: Dr. Suk Kyoung Lee. When placed under a powerful laser field (i.e., under strong-field ionization), electrons can temporarily cross the so-called quantum tunneling barrier,…
Polarized Target a Perfect Fit for Measuring Spinning Particles
BYLINE: Chris Patrick Newswise — In this International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, physicists worldwide are celebrating a century since the establishment of quantum mechanics. The celebration has brought to…
Quantum state lifetimes extended by laser-triggered electron tunneling in cuprate ladders
Laser pulses trigger electronic changes in a cuprate ladder, creating long-lived quantum states that persist for about a thousand times longer than usual. Credit: Brad Baxley/Part to Whole Quantum materials…
The quantum physics of forgetting information
Credit: Oliver Diekmann, oliver-diekmann.graphics / TU Wien In a study by TU Wien and FU Berlin, researchers have measured what happens when quantum physical information is lost. This clarifies important…
Universal law of quantum vortex dynamics discovered in superfluid helium
From left, postdoctoral researcher Yiming Xing, Professor Wei Guo, and graduate student Yousef Alihosseini at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. The researchers injected tiny frozen particles into superfluid helium…