The Penrose tiling pattern is a type of quasicrystal, which means that it has an ordered yet never-repeating structure. The pattern, composed of two shapes, is a 2D projection of a 5D square lattice. Credit: NoneBy shining a laser pulse series inspired by the Fibonacci numbers at atoms inside a quantum computer, physicists have...
Richard Feynman once stated that the double-slit experiment reveals the central challenges of quantum mechanics, putting us ''up against the and peculiarities of nature and paradoxes and mysteries''.Nandini Mukherjee, Richard Zare, and their co-workers at Stanford University, United States, have currently revealed that when helium (He) atoms collide with deuterium molecules (D2) in a quantum...
Fermilab’s Muon g − 2 experiment uses this circular electromagnet to store muons, so that their magnetic moment can be measured with unprecedented precision.Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory/SPLTheoretical predictions move closer to experimental outcomes, but questions stay concerning possible gaps in the standard model of particle physics.The muon's mysteries still leave physicists mesmerized. Last year, an experiment...
MIT researchers have developed a method to enable quantum sensors to detect any arbitrary frequency, with no loss of their ability to measure nanometer-scale features. Quantum sensors detect the most minute variations in magnetic or electrical fields, but until now they have only been capable of detecting a few specific frequencies, limiting their usefulness....
"This Is An 'Edison Moment' In Sensing That Will Improve Society."Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainGravitationalA significant breakthrough in quantum sensing technology is being explained as an "Edison moment" that could, scientists expect, have embracing implications.New research in Nature explains one of the first practical applications of quantum sensing, a largely theoretical technology that weds quantum...
Bird's: eyesight of the underground Daya Bay far detector hall throughout the installation. The four antineutrino detectors are immersed in a large pool filled with ultra-pure water. Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt, BerkeleyThe Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment has created the most precise measurement yet of theta13, an essential parameter for comprehending how neutrinos transform their "taste."BEIJING;...
Fig. 1: Schematic view of the 3He+ ion’s external and internal magnetic interactions. Background: microwave radiation. Credit: MPIIn joint experimental-theoretical research published in Nature, physicists at the Heidelberg Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK), together with collaborators from RIKEN, Japan, investigated the magnetic properties of the isotope helium-3. For the first time, the electronic and...
Nuclear fusion. Credit: The Conversation.The reinforcement learning algorithm, which controls the scorching plasma within a tokamak nuclear fusion reactor, was developed by an AI company backed by Google.The interior of a tokamak– the doughnut-shaped vessel created to include a nuclear fusion reaction– presents a unique type of chaos. Hydrogen atoms are shattered together at...
In a new experiment, scientists created two time crystals inside the superfluid, and brought them to touch. Credit: SciTechdaily.Time crystals were long considered impractical because their continuous movement would seem to challenge the laws of physics. Utilizing quantum physics, scientists have developed time crystals and now proved that they can power helpful tools in...
Researchers have developed self-assembled, protein-based circuits that can do simple logic functions in proof-of-concept research. The work demonstrates that it is possible to develop stable digital circuits that benefit from an electron's properties at quantum scales.Molecular circuitsOne of the stumbling blocks in developing molecular circuits is that the circuits become unreliable as the circuit...
