Quantum Physics News

April 12, 2025

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Enhancing Light Control With Complex Frequency Excitations

Apr. 1, 2025 — Researchers report their insights on the emerging field of complex frequencies excitations, a recently introduced scheme to control light, sound and other wave phenomena beyond conventional limits. Based on this approach, they outline opportunities ...

Smartphone Photo Sensors Transformed Into an Unprecedented Resolution Antimatter Camera

Apr. 2, 2025 — Scientists have repurposed smartphone camera sensors to create a detector capable of tracking antiproton annihilations in real time with unprecedented resolution. This new device can pinpoint ...

Hot Schrödinger Cat States Created

Apr. 4, 2025 — Quantum states can only be prepared and observed under highly controlled conditions. A research team has now succeeded in creating so-called hot Schrodinger cat states in a superconducting microwave resonator. The study shows that quantum phenomena ...

Physicists Uncover Electronic Interactions Mediated Via Spin Waves

Apr. 3, 2025 — Physicists have made a novel discovery regarding the interaction of electronic excitations via spin waves. The finding could open the door to future technologies and advanced applications such as optical modulators, all-optical logic gates, and ...

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Scientists Merge Two 'Impossible' Materials Into New Artificial Structure

Apr. 2, 2025 — An international team has merged two lab-synthesized materials into a synthetic quantum structure once thought impossible to exist and produced an exotic structure expected to provide insights that ...

Transducer Could Enable Superconducting Quantum Networks

Apr. 2, 2025 — Applied physicists have created a photon router that could plug into quantum networks to create robust optical interfaces for noise-sensitive microwave quantum ...

Physicists Use Quantum Entanglement to Crack Mystery of Strange Metals

Mar. 28, 2025 — Scientists have long sought to unravel the mysteries of strange metals -- materials that defy conventional rules of electricity and magnetism. Now, a team of physicists has made a breakthrough in ...

Researchers Find a Way to Shield Quantum Information from 'Noise'

Mar. 27, 2025 — Researchers have discovered a way to protect quantum information from environmental disruptions, offering hope for more reliable future ...

Listen to Quantum Atoms Talk Together Thanks to Acoustics

Mar. 25, 2025 — To get around the constraints of quantum physics, researchers have built a new acoustic system to study the way the minuscule atoms of condensed matter talk together. They hope to one day build an ...

A Multimodal Light Manipulator

Mar. 25, 2025 — Interferometers, devices that can modulate aspects of light, play the important role of modulating and switching light signals in fiber-optic communications networks and are frequently used for gas ...

New Type of Quantum Computer Studies the Dance of Elementary Particles

Mar. 25, 2025 — The study of elementary particles and forces is of central importance to our understanding of the universe. Now a team of physicists shows how an unconventional type of quantum computer opens a new ...

Device Enables Direct Communication Among Multiple Quantum Processors

Mar. 21, 2025 — Researchers developed a scalable interconnect that facilitates all-to-all communication among many quantum processor modules by enabling each to send and receive quantum information on demand in a ...

Quantum Heat Dynamics Toggled by Magnetic Fields

Mar. 19, 2025 — The ability to conduct heat is one of the most fundamental properties of matter, crucial for engineering applications. Scientists know well how conventional materials, such as metals and insulators, ...

Quantum Light Source for Eco-Friendly Production of Biogas

Mar. 18, 2025 — Biomass can be converted into valuable gases. But in order to control this process, the amount of water vapor has to be measured. This is notoriously hard, because other components of the gas can ...

Dialing in the Temperature Needed for Precise Nuclear Timekeeping

Mar. 17, 2025 — For decades, atomic clocks have been the pinnacle of precision timekeeping, enabling GPS navigation, cutting-edge physics research, and tests of fundamental theories. But researchers are now pushing ...

Scientists Tune in to Rhombohedral Graphene's Potential

Mar. 17, 2025 — Scientists are investigating how structures made from several layers of graphene stack up in terms of their fundamental physics and their potential as reconfigurable semiconductors for advanced ...

Direct Evidence Revealed for Rare Pulsing Pear-Shapes in Gadolinium Nuclei

Mar. 17, 2025 — Scientists have acquired direct evidence of rare, pulsing pear-shaped structures within atomic nuclei of the rare-earth element Gadolinium, thanks to new ...

Twisting Atomically Thin Materials Could Advance Quantum Computers

Mar. 17, 2025 — Researchers show that precisely layering nano-thin materials creates excitons -- essentially, artificial atoms -- that can act as quantum information bits, or ...

Scientists Use Light to Unlock Secret of Atoms

Mar. 14, 2025 — Researchers have developed innovative methods to control the ionization of atoms and molecules using specially structured light beams, challenging traditional limits. This breakthrough could lead to ...

Quantum Spin Model Made from Nanographene Molecules

Mar. 14, 2025 — Researchers have experimentally recreated another fundamental theoretical model from quantum physics, which goes back to the Nobel Prize laureate Werner Heisenberg. The basis for the successful ...

Reading Magnetic States Faster -- In Far Infrared

Mar. 13, 2025 — With today's data rates of only a few hundred megabytes per second, access to digital information remains relatively slow. Initial experiments have already shown a promising new strategy: ...

Exciting Moments on the Edge

Mar. 12, 2025 — Researchers have demonstrated that phosphorene nanoribbons (PNRs) exhibit both magnetic and semiconducting properties at room temperature. The research establishes PNRs as a unique class of ...

Elementary-Particle Detectors, 3D Printed

Mar. 11, 2025 — An international collaboration has shown that additive manufacturing offers a realistic way to build large-scale plastic scintillator detectors for particle physics ...

Untangling Quantum Entanglement With New Calculation Formulas

Mar. 11, 2025 — Physicists developed simplified formulas to quantify quantum entanglement in strongly correlated electron systems. Their approach was applied to nanoscale materials, revealing unexpected quantum ...

The Two Faces of Liquid Water

Mar. 10, 2025 — Scientists have uncovered a key finding to one of water's unique properties: at high pressure and low temperature, liquid water separates into two distinct liquid phases -- one high-density and ...

Evidence of a New Phenomenon: Quantum Tornadoes in Momentum Space

Mar. 10, 2025 — Researchers have experimentally demonstrated a quantum tornado. Electrons form vortices in the momentum space of the quantum semi-metal tantalum ...

Unlocking the Secrets of Phase Transitions in Quantum Hardware

Mar. 10, 2025 — Researchers have achieved a remarkable result: capturing and studying phase changes in quantum hardware, which hold hold promise for next-generation technologies like quantum computing and ...

'Nanodot' Control Could Fine-Tune Light for Sharper Displays, Quantum Computing

Mar. 10, 2025 — Newly achieved precise control over light emitted from incredibly tiny sources, a few nanometers in size, embedded in two-dimensional materials could lead to remarkably high-resolution monitors and ...

Sneaky Clocks: Uncovering Einstein's Relativity in an Interacting Atomic Playground

Mar. 5, 2025 — Researchers have explored the interplay between gravitational effects and quantum interactions in optical atomic clocks, revealing more about quantum entanglement in precision ...

Quantum Dot Discovery for LEDs Brings Brighter, More Eco-Friendly Displays

Mar. 5, 2025 — Research has achieved a breakthrough in eco-friendly display technology, creating highly efficient and stable blue quantum dot LEDs (QLEDs) that could power the next generation of televisions, ...

Single-Qubit Sensing Puts New Spin on Quantum Materials Discovery

Mar. 5, 2025 — Working at nanoscale dimensions, billionths of a meter in size, a team of scientists revealed a new way to measure high-speed fluctuations in magnetic materials. Knowledge obtained by these new ...

The Quest for Room-Temperature Superconductors

Mar. 5, 2025 — Theoretical physicists reveal that room-temperature superconductivity is possible within the laws of our Universe, linked to fundamental constants like electron mass and Planck constant. Discovery ...

Neural Network Deciphers Gravitational Waves from Merging Neutron Stars in a Second

Mar. 5, 2025 — Binary neutron star mergers emit gravitational waves followed by light. To fully exploit these observations and avoid missing key signals, speed is crucial. An interdisciplinary team of researchers ...

Cold Atoms on a Chip

Mar. 4, 2025 — Researchers are working to move cold atom quantum experiments and applications from the laboratory tabletop to chip-based ...