To Understand a Special Hadron, Researchers Turn to Supercomputers and Quantum Chromodynamics

The Science Newswise — Hadrons are particles formed by quarks and gluons that are bound together by the strong nuclear force. Nuclear scientists need to understand how hadrons behave and interact with other…

Search for Sterile Neutrinos Continues at Nuclear Reactors

Newswise — Neutrinos, elusive fundamental particles, can act as a window into the center of a nuclear reactor, the interior of the earth, or some of the most dynamic objects…

Quantum sensors tested for next-generation particle physics experiments

The SMSPDs can precisely detect single particles at a time. The detectors were designed and fabricated at JPL and commissioned at the INQNET-Caltech labs. Credit: Cristián Peña, Fermilab To learn…

Nanophotonic platform boosts efficiency of nonlinear-optical quantum teleportation

Quantum messages travel 254 km using existing infrastructure for the first time

Researchers attain coherent control of a hybrid quantum network node

A hybrid multiqubit node-based diamond color centers in a large-scale quantum network. Credit: Chang et al. Quantum technologies, which operate leveraging quantum mechanical phenomena, have the potential to outperform their…

It’s a quantum zoo out there, and scientists just found a dozen new ‘species’

A “map” of the zoo: quantum states emerging in samples of twisted molybdenum ditelluride. The peaks correspond to different fractional charges. Credit: Columbia University There are a seemingly endless number…

Matter mediates ultrastrong coupling between light particles

Junichiro Kono. Credit: George Vidal / Rice University A team of Rice University researchers has developed a new way to control light interactions using a specially engineered structure called a…

New quantum ‘game’ showcases the promise of quantum computers

Schematic of the state preparation procedure. Credit: Oliver Hart et al Imagine the tiniest game of checkers in the world—one played by using lasers to precisely shuffle around ions across…

Rare one-dimensional quantum magnetism discovered in metallic Ti₄MnBi₂ compound