Tailored electron pulses for improved electron microscopy

Plots of the measured energetic fingerprints of pulsed electron beams with different electron numbers. Credit: Rudolf Haindl, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences Electron microscopes provide unique vistas of nanoscale…

Manipulating nonlinear exciton polaritons in a WS2 monolayer with artificial lattices

A new lens on the Universe’s most energetic particles

Newswise — Osaka, Japan – Showers in bathrooms bring us comfort; showers from space bring astrophysicists joy. Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have observed, with their novel method, cosmic-ray extensive air…

Uncovering the secrets of spin-orbit optical Rabi oscillations

a, The original spin-1/2 setting describing spinnings of a quantum particle in a driven magnetic field, where the spin up and spin down constitute the two-level eigenstates. b, In the…

Simulations of ‘backwards time travel’ can improve scientific experiments

A new way to erase quantum computer errors

While errors are normally hard to spot in quantum devices, researchers have shown that, with careful control, some errors can cause atoms to glow. Researchers used this capability to execute…

Alternative method cuts time for computer simulation of absorption spectrum from days to hour

Representation of the organic molecules studied, surrounded by water molecules. Credit: Tárcius Nascimento Ramos Absorption spectroscopy is an analytical chemistry tool that can determine if a particular substance is present…

Positrons induce molecular ion formation in ionic crystal

Newswise — Positron, the antiparticle of electron, has the same mass and charge as that of an electron but with the sign flipped for the charge. It is an attractive…

Ionic crystal generates molecular ions upon positron irradiation

Speeding up creation of quantum entanglement

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers has found a way to speed up the creation of quantum entanglement, a mystifying property of quantum mechanics that Albert Einstein once…