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Progress on chip-based spontaneous four-wave mixing quantum light sources
A single-photon detector (SPD) is sensitive to incidence of individual quanta of light and has many applications in photonics, such as fluorescence measurements, laser ranging, optical time-domain reflectometer, and quantum ...
Optics & Photonics
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Nondestructive technique for identifying nuclides using neutron resonance transmission analysis
A feasibility study conducted at CSNS Back-n facility, recently published in Nuclear Science and Techniques, demonstrates a significant prospect of NRTA in nondestructive nuclide identification.
General Physics
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A physical qubit with built-in error correction
There has been significant progress in the field of quantum computing. Big global players, such as Google and IBM, are already offering cloud-based quantum computing services. However, quantum computers cannot yet help with ...
Optics & Photonics
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High harmonic spectroscopy retrieves electronic structure of high-pressure superconductors
High pressure has revealed surprising physics and created novel states in condensed matter. Exciting examples include near room temperature superconductivity (Tc > 200 K) in high-pressure hydrides such as H3S and LaH10.
Condensed Matter
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Team develops a laser printer for photonic chips
Photonic integrated circuits are an important next-wave technology. These sophisticated microchips hold the potential to substantially decrease costs and increase speed and efficiency for electronic devices across a wide ...
Optics & Photonics
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Physicists develop highly robust time crystal
A team from TU Dortmund University recently succeeded in producing a highly durable time crystal that lived millions of times longer than could be shown in previous experiments. By doing so, they have corroborated an extremely ...
Condensed Matter
Feb 1, 2024
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Device could jumpstart work toward quantum internet
In research that could jumpstart work toward the quantum internet, researchers at MIT and the University of Cambridge have built and tested an exquisitely small device that could allow the quick, efficient flow of quantum ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 1, 2024
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'Flawed' material resolves superconductor conundrum
Christopher Parzyck had done everything right. Parzyck, a postdoctoral researcher, had brought his nickelate samples—a newly discovered family of superconductors—to a synchrotron beamline for X-ray scattering experiments. ...
Superconductivity
Feb 1, 2024
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Experimentation explores defects and fluctuations in quantum devices
Experimental research conducted by a joint team from Los Alamos National Laboratory and D-Wave Quantum Systems examines the paradoxical role of fluctuations in inducing magnetic ordering on a network of qubits.
Quantum Physics
Feb 1, 2024
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Hexagonal copper disk lattice unleashes spin wave control
A collaborative group of researchers has potentially developed a means of controlling spin waves by creating a hexagonal pattern of copper disks on a magnetic insulator. The breakthrough is expected to lead to greater efficiency ...
Condensed Matter
Feb 1, 2024
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Single proton illuminates perovskite nanocrystal-based transmissive thin scintillators
National University of Singapore (NUS) researchers have developed a transmissive thin scintillator using perovskite nanocrystals, designed for real-time tracking and counting of single protons. The exceptional sensitivity ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 1, 2024
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Short X-ray pulses reveal source of light-induced ferroelectricity in SrTiO₃
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg, Germany and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the United States have gained new insights into the development of ...
Condensed Matter
Feb 1, 2024
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Excavation of colossal caverns for Fermilab's DUNE experiment completed
Excavation workers have finished carving out the future home of the gigantic particle detectors for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. Located a mile below the surface, the three colossal caverns are ...
General Physics
Feb 1, 2024
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Milestone reached for superconducting undulator for European XFEL
A European XFEL team at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology has tested a mock-up coil of the superconducting undulator pre-series module (S-PRESSO) designed for an upgrade of the European XFEL. It achieved a record-breaking ...
Superconductivity
Feb 1, 2024
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Generating powerful optical vortices directly from a thin-disk laser oscillator
In recent years, optical vortices have attracted extensive attention in laser advanced manufacturing because of their annual intensity distribution and orbital angular momentum.
Optics & Photonics
Feb 1, 2024
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First tetratomic supermolecules realized at nanokelvin temperatures
A team of experimentalists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) and theorists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has succeeded for the first time in populating and stabilizing a new type of molecule, ...
General Physics
Jan 31, 2024
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New research shows how light propagates in integrated circuits on chips
The field of photonic integrated circuits focuses on the miniaturization of photonic elements and their integration in photonic chips—circuits that carry out a range of calculations using photons, rather than electrons ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 31, 2024
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Team shows how uranium ditelluride continues superconducting even in high magnetic fields
Superconductivity is well understood in so-called "conventional" superconductors. More recent, however, are unconventional superconductors, and it is as yet unclear how they work.
Superconductivity
Jan 31, 2024
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Researchers discover new ways to excite spin waves with extreme infrared light
As demands for computing resources continue to increase rapidly, scientists and engineers are looking for ways to build faster systems for processing information. One possible solution is to use patterns of electron spins, ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 31, 2024
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Will electric fields lead the way in developing semiconductors with high power efficiency?
In the realm of material science, the phenomena of polarization and polarity have conventionally been associated with insulators. However, envision a scenario where these characteristics could be induced in metals, potentially ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 31, 2024
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