Newswise — NEWPORT NEWS, VA — Deep in the heart of matter, some numbers don’t add up. For example, while protons and neutrons are made of quarks, nature’s fundamental building blocks bound…
Category: Physics
Supercomputer simulates quantum chip in unprecedented detail
A coalition of researchers used almost all of the Perlmutter supercomputer’s 7,168 NVIDIA GPUs over a period of 24 hours to capture the structure and function of a multi-layered chip.…
Four ORNL Researchers Named 2025 American Physical Society Fellows
Newswise — Researchers Sang-Ho Kim, An-Ping Li, Bronson Messer and Zac Ward of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been named Fellows of the American Physical Society…
Raman quantum memory demonstrates near-unity performance
The team’s experimental setup. Credit: APS, Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/kbwj-md9n. Over the past decades, quantum physicists and engineers have developed numerous technologies that harness the principles of quantum…
HD⁺ ions cooled to 18 mK yield most precise vibrational-rotational spectra to date
Synergistically cooled Be⁺-HD⁺ ion crystal and molecular dynamics simulation. Credit: APM A research team from the Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology (APM) of the Chinese Academy of…
Reading a quantum clock costs more energy than running it, study finds
Graphic illustrating the difference in energy between running a quantum clock (left: a single electron hopping between two nanoscale regions) and reading the ticks of the clock (right). The energy…
Rare Particle Pairs Point to Primordial Soup’s Temperature at Different Stages
Newswise — UPTON, N.Y. — At the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research at DOE’s Brookhaven…
How sound and light act alike—and not—at the smallest scale
The setup of the experiment in the optical lab, with the semiconductor crystal containing the double slits in the centre. Credit: Leiden University A world-famous light experiment from 1801 has…
