Category: Physics
A new simple scheme for atom interferometry by StuffsEarth
The team’s setup consists of two parallel nano-structured slabs that reflect an incident matter beam three times. Credit: The European Physical Journal D (2024). DOI: [Read more about this post…]
New method of wavefunction matching helps solve quantum many-body problems by StuffsEarth
Wavefunction matching and the Tjon band. Credit: Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07422-z Strongly interacting systems play an important role in quantum physics and quantum chemistry. Stochastic [Read more about this post…]
Stepping into the quantum computing ‘ring’ by StuffsEarth
This schematic shows how trapped ions in a figure-eight, spin-transparent storage ring could work as a quantum computer. Credit: Jefferson Lab Deep in outer space, [Read more about this post…]
Researchers use AI to boost image quality of metalens camera by StuffsEarth
Researchers used deep learning techniques to enhance the image quality of a camera with a metalens integrated directly onto a CMOS imaging chip (left). The [Read more about this post…]
Quantum geometry offers new insights into ‘smart’ materials with switchable electric polarity by StuffsEarth
(a) Schematic of a 1D SSH atomic chain with intracell hopping t+δt and intercell hopping t−δt between A, B sublattice sites. A polar structure forms [Read more about this post…]
Physicists demonstrate first metro-area quantum computer network in Boston by StuffsEarth
Map showing path of two-node quantum network through Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts. Credit: Can Knaut via OpenStreetMap It’s one thing to dream up a quantum [Read more about this post…]
Simulating diffusion using ‘kinosons’ and machine learning by StuffsEarth
A series of “states” (dots) connected with “transitions” (lines) in a complex system. Bigger dots correspond to states where more time is spent during simulation, [Read more about this post…]
Experimental demonstration of inequivalent mutually unbiased bases for quantum information processing by StuffsEarth
Basic idea for distinguishing inequivalent triples of MUBs. Credit: USTC Research groups demonstrated for the first time that inequivalent mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) have different [Read more about this post…]
Scientists raise minimum magnetic field of a single measurement to sub-femtotesla level by StuffsEarth
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A research team has, for the first time, realized the quantum amplification of an extremely weak magnetic field by using dark [Read more about this post…]
Study shows how light can transform an insulating material into a semimetal by StuffsEarth
Left: quantum mechanical simulation of the energies allowed for the electrons before laser irradiation. The blue region means absence of electronic state, the white and [Read more about this post…]
