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September 9, 2016

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The Enigma Machine Takes a Quantum Leap

Sep. 6, 2016 — Researchers have moved beyond the theoretical in demonstrating that an unbreakable encrypted message can be sent with a key that's far shorter than the message -- the first ... read more

New Way of Taming Ions Can Improve Future Health Care

Sep. 7, 2016 — A group of researchers has discovered a completely new way of using lasers to accelerate ion beams. In time, the new technique could possibly give more people access to ... read more

Discovery Creates Future Opportunity in Quantum Computing

Sep. 6, 2016 — Perovskite systems have been shown to be highly efficient at converting sunlight to electricity. Now, scientists have discovered a new use for perovskites that runs counter to the intended usage of ... read more

Transition Point in Semiconductor Nanomaterials

Aug. 31, 2016 — Collaborative research has demonstrated that electronic interactions play a significant role in the dimensional crossover of semiconductor ... read more

Cool Investigation Into Antiproton Beam Dynamics

Aug. 31, 2016 — A new paper will help scientists provide higher quality antiproton beams to experiments at antimatter facilities across the world. The article presents simulation studies undertaken to investigate ... read more

Diamonds and Quantum Information Processing on the Nano Scale

Aug. 30, 2016 — Physicists have successfully demonstrated charge transport between Nitrogen-Vacancy color centers in ... read more

Electrons With No Mass Acquire a Mass in the Presence of a High Magnetic Field

Aug. 29, 2016 — An international team of researchers has discovered that in a very high magnetic field an electron with no mass can acquire a mass. Understanding why ... read more

Colors from Darkness: Alternative Approach to Quantum Computing

Aug. 30, 2016 — Microwaves created at near absolute zero temperature provide uniquely correlated and ... read more

Poof! The Weird Case of the X-Ray That Came out Blank

Aug. 29, 2016 — Imagine getting a medical X-ray that comes out blank – as if your bones had vanished. That’s what happened when scientists cranked up the intensity of the world’s first ... read more

Physicists Discover 'Apparent Departure from the Laws of Thermodynamics'

Aug. 19, 2016 — Physicists have revolutionized our understanding of a popular technique, known as buffer gas cooling, which is crucial in fields ranging from forensics to the production ... read more

Data Suggests There's Probably Not A New Particle Like We Thought

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Superconductivity: After the Scenario, the Staging

Aug. 18, 2016 — Superconductivity with a high Tc continues to present a theoretical mystery. While this phenomenon is experimentally well established, no scientist has managed to explain its mechanism. In the late ... read more

'Sniffer Plasmons' Could Detect Explosives

Aug. 15, 2016 — Scientists have proposed a graphene-based spaser that can 'sniff out' a single molecule, which could be used to detect even small amounts of various substances, including ... read more

Fifth Force of Nature? Light Particle May Be Key to Understanding Dark Matter in Universe

Aug. 15, 2016 — Recent findings indicating the possible discovery of a previously unknown subatomic particle may be evidence of a fifth fundamental force of nature, according to new research by theoretical ... read more

New Material Discovery Allows Study of Elusive Weyl Fermion

Aug. 15, 2016 — Researchers have discovered a new type of Weyl semimetal, a material that opens the way for further study of Weyl fermions, a type of massless elementary particle hypothesized by high-energy particle ... read more

How Shaping Light Can Change Particle Behavior

Aug. 15, 2016 — Interactions between tiny particles trapped in light are found to differ, depending on the light's shape, report scientists. Physical phenomena, such as particle behavior in higher order modes ... read more

Mystery: The Deuteron, Just Like the Proton, Is Much Smaller Than Previously Thought

Aug. 11, 2016 — The deuteron -- one of the simplest atomic nuclei, consisting of just one proton and one neutron -- is considerably smaller than previously thought, say researchers who measured the proton and found ... read more

Quantum Dots With Impermeable Shell: A Powerful Tool for Nanoengineering

Aug. 11, 2016 — Depending on their applications, quantum dots need to be tailored in terms of their structure and properties. Chemists have shown that quantum dots obtained by their novel method can be successfully ... read more

New Method Helps Stabilize Materials With Elusive Magnetism

Aug. 10, 2016 — Magnetic materials displaying what is referred to as itinerant ferromagnetism are in an elusive physical state that is not yet fully understood. Physicists normally have no other choice than to study ... read more

Ultracold Atoms in a 'Rydberg-Dress'

Aug. 10, 2016 — Scientists have developed a novel technique to let atoms interact over large ... read more

Investigating the Neutrino Mass Scale With the Ultra-Low Background KamLAND-Zen Detector

Aug. 12, 2016 — The ultra-low background KamLAND-Zen detector, hosted by research institutes inside and outside Japan demonstrates the best sensitivity in the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay, and sets the ... read more

New Results on the Higgs Boson and the Building Blocks of Matter Presented at ICHEP

Aug. 8, 2016 — Large Hadron Collider (LHC) performance surpasses expectations; results confirm the Higgs particle, show "bump" appears to be a statistical fluctuation, and offer insight into quark-gluon ... read more

New Light Shed on How Neutrinos Behave

Aug. 8, 2016 — Scientists have announced an exciting new result that could improve our understanding of the behavior of neutrinos. Neutrinos have previously been detected in three types, called flavors -- muon, tau ... read more

Prototype Chip Could Help Make Quantum Computing Practical

Aug. 8, 2016 — An important step toward practical quantum computers has been made, with a new paper describing a prototype chip that can trap ions in an electric field and, with built-in optics, direct laser light ... read more

Liquid Light Switch Could Enable More Powerful Electronics

Aug. 8, 2016 — Researchers have built a record energy-efficient switch, which uses the interplay of electricity and a liquid form of light, in semiconductor microchips. The device could form the foundation of ... read more

IceCube Search for the 'Sterile Neutrino' Draws a Blank

Aug. 8, 2016 — In an effort to fill in the blanks of the Standard Model of particle physics, science has been conducting a diligent search for a hypothesized particle known as the "sterile ... read more

Insight Into Why the Universe Is Dominated by Matter and Why We Exist

Aug. 7, 2016 — New findings reveal why the universe is dominated by matter and why we exist and how matter and antimatter are ... read more

Quantum Computing Researchers Reduce Quantum Information Processing Errors

Aug. 5, 2016 — Scientists found a new method to reduce the heating errors that have hindered quantum ... read more

Diamond-Based Light Sources Will Lay a Foundation for Quantum Communications of the Future

Aug. 5, 2016 — Scientists might have solved one of the most challenging problems of quantum communications, showing that diamonds may be used as ultra-bright single photon emitters. Discrete generation of photons ... read more

Record-Breaking Logic Gate 'Another Important Milestone' on Road to Quantum Computers

Aug. 5, 2016 — Researchers have achieved a quantum logic gate with record-breaking 99.9% precision, reaching the benchmark required theoretically to build a quantum ... read more

Scientists Discover Light Could Exist in a Previously Unknown Form

Aug. 5, 2016 — New research suggests that it is possible to create a new form of light by binding light to a single electron, combining the properties of ... read more

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