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Two electrons and two holes, created by light quanta, held together by a chessboard-like background. Image credit: TU Wien

Physicists Discover New Quasiparticle

Feb 5, 2020 by News Staff

Named π-ton (pi-ton), the newly-discovered quasiparticle consists of two electrons and two holes. Two electrons and two holes, created by light quanta,...

An artist’s depiction of a rapidly spinning neutron star and a white dwarf dragging the fabric of spacetime around its orbit. Image credit: Mark Myers, OzGrav ARC Centre of Excellence.

Exotic Binary System Confirms Relativistic Frame-Dragging

Jan 31, 2020 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has found exciting new evidence for Lense-Thirring precession — an effect of relativistic frame-dragging —...

The interior of the Borexino detector. Image credit: Borexino Collaboration.

Borexino Detector Spots 53 Geoneutrinos

Jan 23, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

An underground particle detector called the Borexino detector has detected 53 antielectron neutrinos emanating from the Earth, so-called geoneutrinos. The...

In this illustration, one photon (purple) carries a million times the energy of another (yellow). Image credit: NASA / Sonoma State University / Aurore Simonnet.

Physicists Observe ‘Billions of Billions’ of Entangled Electrons

Jan 17, 2020 by News Staff

An international team of physicists says they have observed quantum entanglement among ‘billions of billions’ of flowing electrons in thin films of...

A 3D view of the Au20 cluster. Image credit: Li et al, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aay4289.

Gold Atoms Take on Pyramidal Shape

Jan 8, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of researchers has presented strong evidence that individual clusters of twenty gold atoms (Au20) take on a pyramidal shape. A 3D...

Left: a tiny bead struck by a laser produces optical modes that circulate around the interior of the bead. Right: a simulation of how the optical field inside a 5-micron bead is distributed. Image credit: Berkeley Lab.

Researchers Create Nanoparticle-Based Microlasers

Jan 3, 2020 by News Staff

Researchers from the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found a way to convert nanoparticle-coated microscopic plastic beads...

Electrons move between two arms of a metallic nanoantenna driven by a single-cycle light wave. Image credit: University of Konstanz.

Scientists Use Light to Transport Electrons at Ultrafast Speeds

Dec 27, 2019 by News Staff

A research team led by University of Konstanz scientists has demonstrated that light waves can be used to transport electrons at sub-femtosecond speeds...

Llewellyn et al realize an array of microring resonators (MRRs) to generate multiple high-quality single photons, which are monolithically integrated with linear-optic circuits that process multiple qubits with high fidelity and low noise. Image credit: Llewellyn et al, doi: 10.1038/s41567-019-0727-x.

Researchers Demonstrate Chip-to-Chip Quantum Teleportation

Dec 25, 2019 by News Staff

A research team led by University of Bristol scientists has successfully demonstrated quantum teleportation of information between two programmable micrometer-scale...

Anomalies in nuclear physics experiments may show signs of a new force. Image credit: Jw210913.

X17 Particle Might Solve Mystery of Dark Matter

Dec 10, 2019 by The Conversation

Professor Attila Krasznahorkay and his colleagues at ATOMKI (the Institute of Nuclear Research in Debrecen, Hungary) recently published a paper that hints...

In a state-of-the-art six-photon experiment, Proietti et al realize an extended Wigner’s friend scenario, experimentally violating the associated Bell-type inequality by five standard deviations. Image credit: Pete Linforth.

Objective Reality May Not Exist, Quantum Experiment Suggests

Nov 27, 2019 by The Conversation

In a paper published in the journal Science Advances, we show that, in the micro-world of atoms and particles that is governed by the strange rules of...

Tiny holes punched into a high-temperature superconducting material revealed that Cooper pairs can also conduct electricity the way metals do. Image credit: Brown University.

Scientists Uncover New State of Matter in Superconductor

Nov 15, 2019 by News Staff

An international team of physicists and materials scientists from the United States and China has discovered a new state of matter they’ve named ‘Cooper...

The CHIMERA printer uses low-power continuous wave lasers to create holograms on a highly sensitive photomaterial. Image credit: Yves Gentet.

Researchers Develop Third-Generation Digital Holographic Printer

Nov 5, 2019 by News Staff

A duo of researchers from France and South Korea has developed a third-generation holographic printing system that produces 3D holograms with an unprecedented...

Digital art by Les Bossinas, Cortez III Service Corp., 1998.

Physicists Propose New Method to Detect Traversable Wormholes

Oct 24, 2019 by News Staff

In a new paper published this month in the journal Physical Review D, a duo of theoretical physicists from Case Western Reserve University, the University...

A plutonium dioxide nanoparticle. Image credit: Kristina Kvashnina.

Physicists Create Unexpected New Form of Plutonium

Oct 21, 2019 by News Staff

Physicists using the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility have created a new compound of plutonium (Pu) with an unexpected, pentavalent oxidation state...

3D render of the semiconductor nanostructure. Image credit: Hermann Edlbauer.

Researchers Control Quantum State of Single Electron Using High-Frequency Sound Waves

Oct 15, 2019 by News Staff

An international team of scientists sent high-frequency sound waves across a modified semiconductor device to direct the behavior of a single electron,...

Lawson et al propose a new instrument for searching dark matter axions using tunable plasmas. Image credit: Alexander Millar / Stockholm University.

Physicists Propose New Way to Detect Dark Matter Particles

Oct 10, 2019 by News Staff

In a paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, an international team of physicists proposes a new strategy for searching for hypothetical...

Ran et al observed re-entrant superconductivity in uranium ditelluride. Image credit: Emily Edwards / JQI.

Physicists Observe ‘Lazarus Superconductivity’ in Uranium Ditelluride

Oct 8, 2019 by News Staff

Physicists have observed a rare phenomenon called re-entrant superconductivity in uranium ditelluride (UTe2). The discovery, reported in the journal Nature...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured this image of the Sun with sunspots in February 2013. The picture combines images from two SDO instruments: the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI), which takes pictures in visible light that show sunspots, and the Advanced Imaging Assembly (AIA), which took an image in the 304 angstrom wavelength showing the lower atmosphere of the Sun, which is colorized in red. Image credit: NASA / SDO / AIA / HMI / Goddard Space Flight Center.

New Model for Plasma Flow within Sun Provides Explanations for Sunspots, Other Solar Phenomena

Sep 20, 2019 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington proposes a new model of plasma motion that would...

To confirm the presence of non-Abelian gauge fields, Yang et al produced interference patterns (top) and a Wilson loop (bottom). Image credit: Yang et al, doi: 10.1126/science.aay3183.

Non-Abelian Gauge Fields Directly Observed for First Time

Sep 10, 2019 by News Staff

After decades of unsuccessful attempts, physicists have directly observed an exotic physical phenomenon called the non-Abelian Aharonov-Bohm effect. The...