a, The chiral zeroth Landau levels exhibit distinctive chiral transport characteristics. By introducing an inhomogeneous effective mass that linearly depends on the coordinate, the Dirac cone system generates a synthetic…
Category: Quantum Physics
Laser pulse creates exotic order in quantum material
A layered crystal on a sample carrier made of gold. The material studied consists of thin layers of tantalum and sulfur atoms stacked in loose association. The image displays a…
Success generating two-qutrit entangling gates with high fidelity
Technical illustration of microwave-activated two-qutrit entangling gates at fixed frequency and coupling. Credit: Noah Goss/Berkeley Lab An interdisciplinary team at the Advanced Quantum Testbed (AQT) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory…
Physicists uses light to build complex structures
Petr Steindl. Credit: Leiden University Ph.D. candidate Petr Steindl creates complex structures of light using single photons. As a teenager, he wanted to study Czech poetry but decided on quantum…
Scientists edge toward scalable quantum simulations on a photonic chip
A new system developed by researchers at the University of Rochester allows them to conduct quantum simulations in a synthetic space that mimics the physical world by controlling the frequency,…
Research students turn Schrödinger’s cat on its head
Students in the laboratory presenting rotation of Schrödinger cat states. No actual cats were hurt during the project. Credit: S. Kurzyna and B. Niewelt, source: University of Warsaw Students at…
Discovering evidence of superradiance in the alpha decay of mirror nuclei
Mirror nuclei, such as 18O & 18Ne, have the same number of protons & neutrons (18),but while 18O has 8 protons & 10 neutrons 18Ne has 10 protons & 8…
