Scientists are exploring the effects of quantum phenomena on black hole dynamics. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman, cmglee. A recent study in Physical Review Letters explores quantum effects…
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A Businesslike Name for a ‘High-Performing Machine’
Newswise — NEWPORT NEWS, VA – The latest addition to the computational arsenal of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is an extraordinary machine with the…
SLAC celebrates 50 years of Nobel-winning discovery in particle physics
Webstory: https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2024-11-20-slac-celebrates-50-years-nobel-winning-discovery-particle-physics On Nov. 11, 1974, two research teams rocked the particle physics world when they announced they had independently discovered a new subatomic particle – the J/psi. The…
Using matter waves, scientists unveil novel collective behaviors in quantum optics
Representation of an array of matter-wave emitters held in an optical lattice tube (atomic excitations in red, emitted matter waves in blue, and effective vacuum coupling in green), along with…
Physicists explain how fractional charge in pentalayer graphene could work
Hartree-Fock (HF) determined quantum metric, and trace condition, accompanied by the layer-4,5 occupation number. The total weight on the other 3 layers combined is ≈ 5%. The mean and variance…
A new method for creating a quantum gas
Artistic illustration of bosenova. Credit: National Taiwan University Cooling atomic gases to the quantum regime often involves time-consuming steps. Electromagnetically induced transparency now achieves quantum degeneracy with high efficiency. Quantum…
