Credit: Microsoft Tech giant Microsoft unveiled a new computer chip on Wednesday that it says could transform everything from fighting pollution to developing new medicines, joining Google and IBM in…
Category: Physics
Germanium detectors help ORNL physicists unlock the mysteries of the universe
BYLINE: Chris Driver Ever since physicist Ernest Rutherford discovered the atomic nucleus in 1911, studying its structure and behavior has remained a challenging task. More than a century later, even…
A new way to observe electrons in motion
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Electrons oscillate around the nucleus of an atom on extremely short timescales, typically completing a cycle in just a few hundred attoseconds. Because of their ultrafast…
Digging deeper into light-assisted atomic collisions
Exploiting the hyperfine structure in repulsive light-assisted collisions (LAC) on a 87-Rubidium atom pair in an optical tweezer. Credit: Steven Burrows/Steven Pampel and Cindy Regal When atoms collide, their exact…
A newly proposed protocol to boost privacy in quantum sensor networks
Schematic of a quantum sensor network. Unknown parameters are spatially distributed across the network. Metrologically, the objective is to estimate a function of these parameters, such as their average value.…
Quantum-inspired advancement turns crystal gaps into terabyte storage for classical memory
A crystal used in the study charges under UV light. The process created by the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering Zhong Lab could be used with a…
Scientists achieve electrical manipulation of spin filling sequence in bilayer graphene quantum dots
Schematics of the BLG-based QD device and research methods. (Image by USTC). Credit: Guo-Quan Qin et al. A research team from the University of Science and Technology of China has…
