Illustration of an entanglement battery. The battery allows reversible interconversion between any two entangled states. Credit: American Physical Society Just over 200 years after French engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot…
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Nonlinear currents emerge in symmetry-broken materials
Artistic representation of the breakdown of Ohm’s law and the resulting nonlinear effects in a non-centrosymmetric crystal. Credit: Elhuyar Fundazioa In a review just published in Nature Materials, researchers take…
Strong magnetic fields flip angular momentum dynamics in magnetovortical matter
Credit: Tokyo University of Science Angular momentum is a fundamental quantity in physics that describes the rotational motion of objects. In quantum physics, it encompasses both the intrinsic spin of…
Quantum protocol achieves Heisenberg-limited measurement precision with robust spin states
Quantum wavepacket dynamics depicting the collective motion of an ensemble of identical spins subject to periodic modulation in their interaction strength. Panels (b) and (c) indicate the generation of highly…
Companies are racing to develop the first useful quantum computer—ultracold neutral atoms could be the key
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The race to build the first useful quantum computer is on and may revolutionize the world with brand new capabilities, from medicine to freight logistics. Tech…
New Technique for Understanding the Nature of Neutrinos Demonstrates an Important Technological Milestone
The Science Newswise — The nature of the neutrino’s mass is no small matter. It is directly connected with major questions in nuclear physics, particle physics, cosmology, and the origins of matter in the…
Discovery of ‘Mini Halo’ Points to How the Early Universe Was Formed
Newswise — Astronomers have uncovered a vast cloud of energetic particles — a ‘mini halo’ — surrounding one of the most distant galaxy clusters ever observed, marking a major step…
New heterostructure design advances quantum technology
Schematic Diagram of the Research. Credit: Jiayi Chen, Dandan Guan and Jin-Feng Jia from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Magnetic-superconducting hybrid systems are key to unlocking topological superconductivity, a state that…
