When water freezes or boils, its atomic structure undergoes a phase transition in response to temperature change. Phase transitions are common in nature, and have been exploited to make devices such as digital memories. Complex ...
(麻豆淫院Org.com) -- In a study published in the July 1 issue of the journal Nature, Dartmouth researchers describe one example of the microscopic quantum world influencing--even dominating, they say--the behavior of something ...
(麻豆淫院Org.com) -- 鈥淢ost current hard x-ray interferometers are based on crystals, which require their high quality and high mechanical stability,鈥� Anatoly Snigirev tells 麻豆淫院Org.com. 鈥淭his can make x-ray interferometry ...
One of the issues affecting quantum systems is coherence. Understanding coherence and how it breaks down (decoherence) is one of the keys to putting together a powerful quantum computer. And, because wires made from metal ...
(麻豆淫院Org.com) -- When physicists entangle light, they usually use nonlinear crystals as the source. However, it鈥檚 difficult to control the entanglement generation process in a bulk crystal, and so scientists have been looking ...
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have captured time-series snapshots of a solid as it evolves on the ultra-fast timescale.
Layers of plastic, much thinner than a strand of hair鈥攖his type of ultrathin polymer film is of great interest to scientists and engineers. Applications include protective coatings, for example. A research team led by Stefan ...
Solar cell technology is marching ahead, though it still struggles with the two problems: efficiency and high production costs. In collaboration with Satoshi Uchida at the University of Tokyo, Michael Gr盲tzel and his research ...
Solar cells have attracted global attention as one of the cornerstones of alternative energy. In theory, it seems to make abundant sense to tap into the energy of the sun to convert light to electricity with little or no ...
Despite advances in experimental nuclear physics, the most detailed probing of atomic nuclei still requires heavy doses of advanced nuclear theory. The problem is that using theory to make meaningful predictions requires ...
