Figure 1: Moore and his colleagues measured the momentum kick imparted by a single gas molecule on an optically levitated silica nanoparticle (center) [2]. Thanks to the isolation offered by setups ...
Two studies find that fundamental quantum constraints rule out a previously proposed neutrino-laser scheme. In last year’s proposal of a neutrino laser, the researchers sought to exploit the same ...
New experiments suggest that superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene depends on an unconventional electron-pairing mechanism. Figure 1: Two twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) layers stacked one on ...
Figure 1: The beam pipe of the LHCb experiment at CERN. The beam pipe’s main function is to sustain an ultrahigh vacuum for the colliding proton beams while enabling particles produced in the ...
Figure 1: Barrios Hita and colleagues have explored a new path for developing a formulation of quantum theory that doesn’t rely on complex numbers [5]. In standard quantum theory, every physical ...
Stacked monolayers of graphene and other 2D materials are held together by weak van der Waals forces. When additional atoms are introduced between the layers, a typical stack promptly accommodates the ...
The new map of the Universe’s expansion history released by the DESI Collaboration offers hints at a breakdown of the standard model of cosmology. Figure 1: A slice of DESI’s first three years of data ...
A Bose-Einstein condensate of radioactive atoms could turn into a source of intense, coherent, and directional neutrino beams, according to a theoretical proposal. Figure 1: Top: At high temperature, ...
Pairs of skyrmions—tiny whirlpools that emerge in some magnetic materials—might be able to self-propel, a behavior reminiscent of that of active-matter systems such as motile bacteria. Figure 1: ...
To demonstrate a new system for rapidly rearranging thousands of atoms, researchers produced an animation featuring Schrödinger’s famous feline. This movie shows rubidium atoms being moved around in ...
A proposed experiment could shed light on the unknown interplay of quantum theory and general relativity. Quantum theory in curved spacetime can be theoretically understood beyond the limit at which ...
New physics may explain discrepant values for the ionization energy of a metastable state of helium. Aaron Bondy is a theoretical physicist at Drake University in Iowa, where he works as a ...
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