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Single Photon Light Emitting Diodes for on-Chip Integration

Sep. 26, 2016 — Researchers have used layered materials to create an all-electrical quantum light emitting diodes (LED) with single-photon emission. These LEDs have potential as on-chip ... read more

Chains of Nanogold, Forged With Atomic Precision

Sep. 22, 2016 — Short chains and rings of gold nanoparticles have now been produced with unprecedented precision. They used a special kind of nanoparticles with a well-defined structure and linked them together with ... read more

Hunt for the Truest North

Sep. 21, 2016 — If you chop a magnet in half, you end up with two smaller magnets. Both the original and the new magnets have “north” and “south” poles. But what if single north and south poles exist, just ... read more

Scientists Find Twisting 3-D Raceway for Electrons in Nanoscale Crystal Slices

Sep. 23, 2016 — An exotic 3-D racetrack for electrons in ultrathin slices of a crystal has been observed for the first time, by a group of ... read more

Nucleon Interactions Key to Quantum Phase Transition

Sep. 20, 2016 — New light has been shed on the ways in which protons and neutrons can bind and even undergo a quantum phase transition. This work has implications for understanding the ... read more

'Schroedinger's Cat' Molecules Give Rise to Exquisitely Detailed Movies

Sep. 21, 2016 — Scientists have known for a long time that an atom or molecule can also be in two different states at once. Now researchers have exploited this Schroedinger’s Cat behavior ... read more

Artificial Intelligence Helps in the Discovery of New Materials

Sep. 21, 2016 — With the help of artificial intelligence, chemists have computed the characteristics of about two million crystals made up of four chemical elements. The researchers were ... read more

Acoustic Resonator Device Paves the Way for Better Communication

Sep. 20, 2016 — A high-frequency version of a device known as an acoustic resonator has now been developed that could advance the field of quantum computing and information processing, ... read more

For First Time, Individual Atoms Seen Keeping Away from Each Other or Bunching Up as Pairs

Sep. 15, 2016 — If you bottle up a gas and try to image its atoms using today's most powerful microscopes, you will see little more than a ... read more

Levitating Nanoparticle Improves 'Torque Sensing'

Sep. 15, 2016 — Researchers have levitated a tiny nanodiamond particle with a laser in a vacuum chamber, using the technique for the first time to detect and measure its "torsional ... read more

Data Suggests There's Probably Not A New Particle Like We Thought

What Next for Gravitational Waves?

How To Get Better At Quantum Computing: Make A Game Of It

What Did Einstein Mean By 'Curved' Spacetime?

A Tight Squeeze for Electrons: Quantum Effects Observed in 'One-Dimensional' Wires

Sep. 15, 2016 — Researchers have observed quantum effects in electrons by squeezing them into one-dimensional 'quantum wires' and observing the interactions between them. The results could be used to aid ... read more

Lighting the Way to Miniature Devices

Sep. 13, 2016 — Electromagnetic waves created on a layer of organic molecules could provide the perfect on-chip light source for future quantum communication ... read more

Peculiar Metals? Insulator or Conductor

Sep. 13, 2016 — The electronic energy states allowed by quantum mechanics determine whether a solid is an insulator or whether it conducts electric current as a metal. Researchers have now theoretically predicted a ... read more

Metal to Insulator Transition Understood

Sep. 12, 2016 — Physicists have, for the first time, succeeded in directly visualizing on small scales how a material abruptly changes its state from conducting to insulating at low temperatures. Researchers thereby ... read more

New Laser Provides Ultra-Precise Tool for Scientists Probing the Secrets of the Universe

Sep. 12, 2016 — A promising tool for the next generation of tests is the new high promising tool for the next generation of tests is the new high-intensity laser. It produces pulses of deep ultraviolet light with ... read more

New Chip Could Bring Highest Level of Encryption to Any Mobile Device

Sep. 8, 2016 — Random number generators are crucial to the encryption that protects our privacy and security when engaging in digital transactions such as buying products online or withdrawing cash from an ATM. For ... read more

New Way of Taming Ions Can Improve Future Health Care

Sep. 7, 2016 — A group of researchers has discovered a completely new way of using lasers to accelerate ion beams. In time, the new technique could possibly give more people access to advanced cancer ... read more

The Enigma Machine Takes a Quantum Leap

Sep. 6, 2016 — Researchers have moved beyond the theoretical in demonstrating that an unbreakable encrypted message can be sent with a key that's far shorter than the message -- the first time that has ever ... read more

Discovery Creates Future Opportunity in Quantum Computing

Sep. 6, 2016 — Perovskite systems have been shown to be highly efficient at converting sunlight to electricity. Now, scientists have discovered a new use for perovskites that runs counter to the intended usage of ... read more

Scientists Predict the Existence of a New Boson

Sep. 6, 2016 — Using data from a series of experiments that led to the discovery and first exploration of the Higgs boson at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 2012, scientists at the High ... read more

First Gravitational Waves Form After 10 Million Years

Sep. 5, 2016 — If two galaxies collide, the merging of their central black holes triggers gravitational waves, which ripple throughout space. An international research team has now calculated that this occurs ... read more

Transition Point in Semiconductor Nanomaterials

Aug. 31, 2016 — Collaborative research has demonstrated that electronic interactions play a significant role in the dimensional crossover of semiconductor ... read more

Invisibility Cloak With Photonic Crystals

Aug. 31, 2016 — Almost as elusive as unicorns, finding practical materials for invisibility cloaking is challenging. Researchers have new ideas how to solve that. They're using crystal "atoms" made of ... read more

Cool Investigation Into Antiproton Beam Dynamics

Aug. 31, 2016 — A new paper will help scientists provide higher quality antiproton beams to experiments at antimatter facilities across the world. The article presents simulation studies undertaken to investigate ... read more

Diamonds and Quantum Information Processing on the Nano Scale

Aug. 30, 2016 — Physicists have successfully demonstrated charge transport between Nitrogen-Vacancy color centers in ... read more

Colors from Darkness: Alternative Approach to Quantum Computing

Aug. 30, 2016 — Microwaves created at near absolute zero temperature provide uniquely correlated and controllable ... read more

Poof! The Weird Case of the X-Ray That Came out Blank

Aug. 29, 2016 — Imagine getting a medical X-ray that comes out blank – as if your bones had vanished. That’s what happened when scientists cranked up the intensity of the world’s first X-ray laser to get a ... read more

Electrons With No Mass Acquire a Mass in the Presence of a High Magnetic Field

Aug. 29, 2016 — An international team of researchers has discovered that in a very high magnetic field an electron with no mass can acquire a mass. Understanding why elementary particles have a mass is a fundamental ... read more

Funneling Fundamental Particles

Aug. 23, 2016 — Fermilab and J-PARC in Japan are the only major laboratories now hosting experiments with neutrino horns and Fermilab is one of the few places in the world that makes ... read more

Light and Matter Merge in Quantum Coupling

Aug. 22, 2016 — Physicists probe the boundaries of light-matter interactions as they bridge traditional condensed matter physics and cavity-based quantum ... read more

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