/ en-us Â鶹ÒùÔº internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Â鶹ÒùÔºics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. A new platform for engineering chiral electron pathways offers potential fresh insights into a quantum phenomenon discovered by chemists—and exemplifies how the second quantum revolution is fostering transdisciplinary collaborations that bridge physics, chemistry, and biology to tackle fundamental questions. /news/2025-06-quantum-spirals-programmable-platform-ways.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:00:03 EDT news668940541 Rutgers University–New Brunswick researchers have discovered a new class of materials—called intercrystals—with unique electronic properties that could power future technologies. /news/2025-05-intercrystals-pave-greener-electronics-quantum.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Wed, 21 May 2025 17:17:04 EDT news667066621 Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) are tackling one of the most complex challenges in the world of quantum information—how to create reliable, scalable networks that can connect quantum systems over distances. /news/2025-05-strategy-quantum-networks-stable-replenishing.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Fri, 02 May 2025 11:32:03 EDT news665404321 When an electric current passes through some materials, it generates a voltage perpendicular to the direction in which the current is flowing and of an applied magnetic field. This physical phenomenon, known as the anomalous Hall effect, has been linked to the intrinsic properties of some materials. /news/2025-04-mathematical-modulates-anomalous-hall-angle.html Condensed Matter Mon, 21 Apr 2025 11:09:21 EDT news664452556 Researchers at Heriot-Watt University have made a discovery that could pave the way for a transformative era in photonic technology. For decades, scientists have theorized the possibility of manipulating the optical properties of light by adding a new dimension—time. This once-elusive concept has now become a reality thanks to nanophotonics experts from the School of Engineering and Â鶹ÒùÔºical Sciences in Edinburgh, Scotland. /news/2025-03-scientists-dimension-ushering-era-photonic.html Optics & Photonics Mon, 17 Mar 2025 18:00:01 EDT news661434749 Researchers from Skoltech, the University of Warsaw, and the University of Iceland have demonstrated that by optical means it is possible to excite and stir an exciton-polariton condensate, which emits a linearly polarized light with a polarization axis following the stirring direction. /news/2024-11-scientists-optical-nuclear-magnetic-resonance.html Condensed Matter Optics & Photonics Tue, 05 Nov 2024 07:02:05 EST news650012521 A major challenge in realizing quantum computers is the development of quantum error correction technology. This technology offers a solution for addressing errors that occur in the qubit, the basic unit of quantum computation, and prevents them from being amplified during the computation. /news/2024-10-hybrid-quantum-error-technique-discrete.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 16 Oct 2024 16:04:33 EDT news648313465 While various studies have hinted at the existence of dark matter, its nature, composition and underlying physics remain poorly understood. /news/2024-10-planck-scale-dark-leveraging-quantum.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 08 Oct 2024 06:46:25 EDT news647588774 A Doppler shift is defined as a change of frequency of light or sound when an object is moving toward or away from an observer. Edwin Hubble observed in 1929 that galaxies appear on average to be moving away from us (see figure above), which could indicate that the universe is expanding, an effect that became known as the Hubble Law. /news/2024-09-quantized-redshift-big-hypothesis.html Astronomy Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:40:01 EDT news646303513 Deep inside what we perceive as solid matter, the landscape is anything but stationary. The interior of the building blocks of the atom's nucleus—particles called hadrons that a high school student would recognize as protons and neutrons—are made up of a seething mixture of interacting quarks and gluons, known collectively as partons. /news/2024-09-nuclear-theorists-supercomputers-blocks-3d.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:43:51 EDT news645810225 In a continuous pursuit to understand the fundamental laws that govern the universe, researchers have ventured deep into the realms of string theory, loop quantum gravity, and quantum geometry. These advanced theoretical frameworks have revealed an especially compelling concept: the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP). /news/2024-09-bridging-quantum-mechanics-cosmology-role.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 04 Sep 2024 09:57:05 EDT news644662620 Mechanical systems are highly suitable for realizing applications such as quantum information processing, quantum sensing and bosonic quantum simulation. The effective use of these systems for these applications, however, relies on the ability to manipulate them in unique ways, specifically by 'squeezing' their states and introducing nonlinear effects in the quantum regime. /news/2024-07-approach-quantum-mechanical.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 08 Jul 2024 09:48:45 EDT news639650920 The potential of quantum computers is currently thwarted by a trade-off problem. Quantum systems that can carry out complex operations are less tolerant to errors and noise, while systems that are more protected against noise are harder and slower to compute with. /news/2024-06-quantum-problem.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 18 Jun 2024 09:01:04 EDT news637920061 The selective bond-breaking powers of enzymes bring new versatility for building nanoparticles with a wide range of technical and medical potential. /news/2024-06-technique-enzymes-versatile-nanoparticles.html Nanomaterials Tue, 11 Jun 2024 09:16:04 EDT news637316161 The accelerated expansion of the present universe, believed to be driven by a mysterious dark energy, is one of the greatest puzzles in our understanding of the cosmos. The standard model of cosmology called Lambda-CDM, explains this expansion as a cosmological constant in Einstein's field equations. However, the cosmological constant itself lacks a complete theoretical understanding, particularly regarding its very small positive value. /news/2024-06-partner-anti-universe-expansion-dark.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 04 Jun 2024 09:20:01 EDT news636711595 Graphene has been called "the wonder material of the 21st century." Since its discovery in 2004, the material—a single layer of carbon atoms—has been touted for its host of unique properties, which include ultra-high electrical conductivity and remarkable tensile strength. It has the potential to transform electronics, energy storage, sensors, biomedical devices, and more. But graphene has had a dirty little secret: it's dirty. /news/2024-05-link-oxygen-graphene-quality-techniques.html Nanomaterials Wed, 29 May 2024 11:00:02 EDT news636197088 Graph states, a class of entangled quantum states that can be represented by graphs, have been the topic of numerous recent physics studies, due to their intriguing properties. These unique properties could make them particularly promising for quantum computing applications, as well as a wider range of quantum technologies. /news/2024-04-generating-graph-states-atomic-ensembles.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 01 May 2024 10:30:01 EDT news633691018 An international research team from Innsbruck and Geneva has, for the first time, probed the dimensional crossover for ultracold quantum matter. In the regime between one and two dimensions, the quantum particles perceive their world as being 1D or 2D depending on the length scale on which they are probed: For short distances, their world is 1D, but it is 2D for long distances. /news/2024-04-physicists-track-dimensionality-affect-properties.html Soft Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 10 Apr 2024 10:59:21 EDT news631965559 At the intersection of chemistry and computation, researchers from the University of Glasgow have developed a hybrid digital-chemical probabilistic computational system based on the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction which can be used for solving combinatorial optimization problems. /news/2024-04-scientists-harness-chemical-dynamics-complex.html Analytical Chemistry Fri, 05 Apr 2024 08:10:01 EDT news631441813 Researchers at DTU have successfully distributed a quantum-secure key using a method called continuous variable quantum key distribution (CV QKD). The researchers have managed to make the method work over a record 100 km distance—the longest distance ever achieved using the CV QKD method. The advantage of the method is that it can be applied to the existing Internet infrastructure. /news/2024-04-kilometers-quantum-encrypted.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 02 Apr 2024 11:25:13 EDT news631275909 Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated that advanced quantum-based cybersecurity can be realized in a deployed fiber link. /news/2024-03-quantum-key-cybersecurity.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:41:53 EDT news629566911 Scientists at Paderborn University have used a new method to determine the characteristics of optical quantum states. For the first time, they are using certain photon detectors—devices that can detect individual light particles—for so-called homodyne detection. /news/2024-02-properties-scientists-method-quantum-states.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 26 Feb 2024 11:04:14 EST news628167852 Understanding the nature of quantum objects' behaviors is the premise for a reasonable description of the quantum world. Depending on whether the interference can be produced or not, the quantum object is endowed with dual features of a wave and a particle, i.e., the so-called wave-particle duality (WPD), which are generally observed in the so-called mutually exclusive experimental arrangements in the sense of Bohr's complementarity principle. /news/2024-01-particle-duality-photons.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:17:53 EST news624716268 A study published in the journal Â鶹ÒùÔºical Review Letters by researchers in Japan solves a long-standing problem in quantum physics by redefining the uncertainty principle. /news/2023-12-uncertainty-principle-unbounded.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 14 Dec 2023 10:41:59 EST news621772911 The field of attosecond physics was established with the mission of exploring light–matter interactions at unprecedented time resolutions. Recent advancements in this field have allowed physicists to shed new light on the quantum dynamics of charge carriers in atoms and molecules /news/2023-12-method-quantum-photoionization-pathways-attosecond.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 04 Dec 2023 10:10:01 EST news620906052 It can take years of focused laboratory work to determine how to make the highest quality materials for use in electronic and photonic devices. Researchers have now developed an autonomous system that can identify how to synthesize "best-in-class" materials for specific applications in hours or days. /news/2023-11-autonomous-lab-best-in-class-quantum-dot.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Mon, 13 Nov 2023 11:46:51 EST news619098407 Quantum annealing (QA) is a cutting-edge algorithm that leverages the unique properties of quantum computing to tackle complex combinatorial optimization problems (a class of mathematical problems dealing with discrete-variable functions). /news/2023-10-optimizing-continuous-variable-functions-quantum-annealing.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:44:05 EDT news615548641 It is possible to image an object with an induced coherence effect by making use of photon pairs to gain information on the item of interest—without detecting the light probing it. While one photon illuminates the object, its partner alone is detected, thereby preventing the measurements of coincidence events to reveal information of the sought after object. This method can be made resilient to noise, as well. /news/2023-09-experimental-quantum-imaging-distillation-undetected.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Fri, 08 Sep 2023 11:30:01 EDT news613385120 A collaboration of nuclear theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Temple University, Adam Mickiewicz University of Poland, and the University of Bonn, Germany, has used supercomputers to predict the spatial distributions of charges, momentum, and other properties of "up" and "down" quarks within protons. The results, just published in Â鶹ÒùÔºical Review D, revealed key differences in the characteristics of the up and down quarks. /news/2023-08-reveal-high-resolution-view-quarks-protons.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 02 Aug 2023 13:18:35 EDT news610201107 Enantioselection with neither chiral catalysis nor chiral ingredients (absolute enantioselection) has been one of the most active topics in biology, but its experimental realizations have been challenging. A team led by researchers at the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) have demonstrated the enantioselectivity of helical supramolecules consisting only of achiral molecules solely by exploiting chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect. /news/2023-07-effect-molecular-chirality-universal-applications.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Fri, 28 Jul 2023 10:35:04 EDT news609759301