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Ultrafast imaging reveals existence of 'polarons'

Nov 30, 2016 (SPX)

Many people picture electrical conductivity as the flow of charged particles (mainly electrons) without really thinking about the atomic structure of the materi...

10 million ions cooled for the first time to 7K

Nov 30, 2016 (SPX)

Previously it was only possible to cool down about one thousand ions to 7.5 K using buffer gas. However, a thousand ions are not nearly enough for spectroscopic...

First Signs of Weird Quantum Property of Empty Space

Nov 30, 2016 (SPX)

By studying the light emitted from an extraordinarily dense and strongly magnetised neutron star using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers may have found th...

NIST debuts dual atomic clock - and a new stability record

Nov 29, 2016 (SPX)

What could be better than a world-leading atomic clock? Two clocks in one. Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have combined...

Optical clock technology tested in space for first time

Nov 21, 2016 (SPX)

For the first time, an optical clock has traveled to space, surviving harsh rocket launch conditions and successfully operating under the microgravity that woul...

An Archimedes' screw for groups of quantum particles

Nov 21, 2016 (SPX)

Anyone who has tried to lead a group of tourists through a busy city knows the problem. How do you keep the group together when they are constantly jostled, hel...

Controlling electrons in time and space

Nov 17, 2016 (SPX)

In an electron microscope, electrons are emitted by pointy metal tips, that way the can be steered and controlled with high precision. Recently, such metal tips...

Researchers found mathematical structure that was thought not to exist

Nov 16, 2016 (SPX)

In the 1970s, a group of mathematicians started developing a theory according to which codes could be presented at a level one step higher than the sequences fo...

Simulations show swirling rings, whirlpool-like structure in subatomic 'soup'

Nov 14, 2016 (SPX)

At its start, the universe was a superhot melting pot that very briefly served up a particle soup resembling a "perfect," frictionless fluid. Scientists have re...

Watching the buildup of quantum superpositions

Nov 14, 2016 (SPX)

It is definitely the most famous experiment in quantum physics: in the double slit experiment, a particle is fired onto a plate with two parallel slits, so ther...

Starvation Diet for Black Hole Dims Brilliant Galaxy

Nov 11, 2016 (SPX)

Astronomers may have solved the mystery of the peculiar volatile behavior of a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy. Combined data from NASA's Chan...

Watching quantum jumps

Nov 09, 2016 (SPX)

Quantum particles can change their state very quickly - this is called a "quantum jump". An atom, for example, can absorb a photon, thereby changing into a stat...

Entering the field of zeptosecond measurement

Nov 09, 2016 (SPX)

Laser physicists in Munich have measured a photoionization - in which an electron exits a helium atom after excitation by light - for the first time with zeptos...

France doubles its experimental capability in nuclear physics

Nov 08, 2016 (SPX)

The new SPIRAL2 particle accelerator at the French large heavy-ion accelerator GANIL (CNRS/CEA), inaugurated on November 3 in the presence of the French Preside...

Scientists set traps for atoms with single-particle precision

Nov 08, 2016 (SPX)

Atoms, photons, and other quantum particles are often capricious and finicky by nature; very rarely at a standstill, they often collide with others of their kin...

Hot on the heels of quasiparticles

Nov 07, 2016 (SPX)

If one tries to understand weather phenomena, it's not much use looking at the behaviour of single water droplets or air molecules. Instead, meteorologists (and...

Close galactic encounter leaves 'nearly naked' supermassive black hole

Nov 04, 2016 (SPX)

Astronomers using the super-sharp radio vision of the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) have found the shredded remains of a galaxy ...

Weak atomic bond, theorized 14 years ago, observed for first time

Nov 02, 2016 (SPX)

A Purdue University physicist has observed a butterfly Rydberg molecule, a weak pairing of two highly excitable atoms that he predicted would exist more than a ...

Physicists make it possible to 3-D print your own baby universe

Nov 02, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers have created a 3D printed cosmic microwave background - a map of the oldest light in the universe - and provided the files for download. The cosmic ...

Cosmic connection found in both human cells and neutron stars

Nov 02, 2016 (SPX)

We humans may be more aligned with the universe than we realize. According to research published in the journal Physical Review C, neutron stars and cell cytopl...