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Field-emission plug-and-play solution for microwave electron guns

Nov 19, 2014 (SPX)

On a quest to design an alternative to the two complex approaches currently used to produce electrons within microwave electron guns, a team of researchers from...

Particle collider notches up two new finds

Nov 19, 2014 (AFP)

Experiments at the world's biggest particle smasher have confirmed the existence of two theorised sub-atomic particles, the European Organisation for Nuclear Re...

Spiral laser beam creates quantum whirlpool

Nov 17, 2014 (SPX)

Physicists at ANU have engineered a spiral laser beam and used it to create a whirlpool of hybrid light-matter particles called polaritons. "Creating circulatin...

Researchers discern the shapes of high-order Brownian motions

Nov 17, 2014 (SPX)

For the first time, scientists have vividly mapped the shapes and textures of high-order modes of Brownian motions--in this case, the collective macroscopic mov...

Cardiff scientists help unlock secrets of the Universe

Nov 17, 2014 (SPX)

A team of Cardiff University researchers have made a breakthrough in helping scientists discover hundreds of black holes throughout the universe. When two detec...

NASA X-ray Telescopes Find Black Hole May Be a Neutrino Factory

Nov 14, 2014 (SPX)

The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be producing mysterious particles called neutrinos. If confirmed, this would be the first time that scie...

Twisted light waves sent across Vienna

Nov 13, 2014 (SPX)

A group of researchers from Austria have sent twisted beams of light across the rooftops of Vienna. It is the first time that twisted light has been transmitted...

Atomic timekeeping, on the go

Nov 13, 2014 (SPX)

What time is it? The answer, no matter what your initial reference may be -- a wristwatch, a smartphone, or an alarm clock -- will always trace back to the atom...

A Piece of the Quantum Puzzle

Nov 13, 2014 (SPX)

While the Martinis Lab at UC Santa Barbara has been focusing on quantum computation, former postdoctoral fellow Pedram Roushan and several colleagues have been ...

UT Arlington physics group combining photonics and biotech

Nov 12, 2014 (SPX)

A University of Texas at Arlington physics team is using their expertise in the field of optics and photonics to advance new methods in areas such as mapping th...

Noise in a microwave amplifier is limited by quantum particles of heat

Nov 11, 2014 (SPX)

As part of an international collaboration, scientists at Chalmers University of Technology have demonstrated how noise in a microwave amplifier is limited by se...

Good vibrations give electrons excitations

Nov 11, 2014 (SPX)

For more than 50 years, scientists have debated what turns particular oxide insulators, in which electrons barely move, into metals, in which electrons flow fre...

New electron spin secrets revealed

Nov 11, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the University of Cambridge in the UK have demonstrated that it is possible to di...

Maybe it wasn't the Higgs particle after all

Nov 11, 2014 (SPX)

Last year CERN announced the finding of a new elementary particle, the Higgs particle. But maybe it wasn't the Higgs particle, maybe it just looks like it. And ...

Transitions between states of matter: It's more complicated, scientists find

Nov 07, 2014 (SPX)

The seemingly simple process of phase changes--those transitions between states of matter--is more complex than previously known, according to research based at...

CERN discovery could be Higgs, could be another particle

Nov 07, 2014 (UPI)

Scientists were quite excited when researchers last year announced they had observed the Higgs particle in the CERN particle accelerator known as the Large Hadr...

The Peres conjecture is false!

Nov 06, 2014 (SPX)

Since 1999, the conjecture by Asher Peres, who invented quantum teleportation, has piqued the interest of many scientists in the field. According to his hypothe...

Disorder + disorder = more disorder?

Nov 05, 2014 (SPX)

If you took the junk from the back of your closet and combined it with the dirty laundry already on your floor, you would have an even bigger mess. While this p...

Plasma: Casimir and Yukawa mesons

Nov 04, 2014 (SPX)

A new theoretical work establishes a long-sought-after connection between nuclear particles and electromagnetic theories. Its findings suggest that there is an ...

Two photons strongly coupled by glass fiber

Nov 04, 2014 (SPX)

Two photons in free space do not interact. Light waves can pass through each other without having any influence on each other at all. For many applications in q...