Physics and Matter News - April 2008 Archives
 | Researchers believe they can achieve a significant increase in the accuracy of one of the fundamental constants of nature by boosting an electron to an orbit as far as possible from the atomic nucleus that binds it ...> Full Article |
Advance improves our understanding of how light interacts with matter, and could make possible the development of new integrated-circuit technologies that result in faster computers that use less energy.
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 | Science experiment aboard space shuttle Columbia recovered and reviewed. ...> Full Article |
 | Researchers have focused microwaves to specks 20 times smaller than their wavelength and five times smaller than other devices have achieved. ...> Full Article |
Photonics research hopes to use slow and fast light pulses to store and process information
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 | UK scientists building a computing Grid for particle physics have launched the next phase of their project, in advance of the start of the world's largest experiment ...> Full Article |
'Quantum Hall-like effect' found in a bulk material without an applied magnetic field
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Researchers are working on an experiment that will sit in an abandoned South Dakota goldmine, looking for evidence of dark matter.
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 | Researchers in Japan and China have discovered a new family of high-temperature superconductors ...> Full Article |
A step toward circuits for superfast far-infrared computers
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 | Figuring out the physics of how cartilage moves, is compressed, twisted and otherwise deformed to eventually be replaced by better, longer-lasting artificial cartilage is goal of projects ...> Full Article |
Researchers have determined that the element chromium displays electrical properties of magnets in surprising ways
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Study finds striking similarities and differences between quantum and classical chaos
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Researchers have used the world's thinnest material to create the world's smallest transistor, one atom thick and ten atoms wide.
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Device on mountaintop takes first step toward manmade lightning
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 | Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have combined two tiny but powerful NIST inventions on a single microchip, a cryogenic sensor and a microrefrigerator. The combination offers the possibility of cheaper, simpler and faster precision analysis of materials such as semiconductors and stardust. ...> Full Article |
The quest to understand more about the mysterious neutrino particle which is thought to be responsible for this phenomenon has taken a major step forward.
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But gravitational waves may be more sensitive probe of early universe physics than previously thought
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Terahertz waves, which until now have barely found their way out of the laboratory, could soon be in use as a versatile tool
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The world's shortest light pulse containing just one photon has been produced
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A new £10 million research institute dedicated to studying the fundamental science behind shock waves, high velocity collisions and extremes of pressure and heat
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 | Researchers find the ties that bind electrons in high-temperature superconductivity ...> Full Article |
 | Laser reaches greater than one petawatt of laser power ...> Full Article |
A research group recently demonstrated one of the basic building blocks for distributed quantum computing using entangled photons generated in optical fibers
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The relationship between a thin liquid film or drop of liquid and the shape of the surface that it wets is explained with a new simplified mathematical formula
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 | Discovery opens new directions of inquiry in condensed matter physics and breaks ground for a new generation of microelectronics ...> Full Article |
 | Researchers have used graphene to measure an important and mysterious fundamental constant - and glimpse the foundations of the universe. ...> Full Article |
physicist a key figure among international team that designed world's biggest particle physics detector
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 | Hydrogen storage material compacts molecules more densely than frozen block. ...> Full Article |
 | A research team has succeeded in cooling atoms of a rare-earth element, erbium, to within two millionths of a degree of absolute zero using a novel trapping and laser cooling technique. Their recent report* is a major step towards a capability to capture, cool and manipulate individual atoms of erbium, an element with unique optical properties that promises highly sensitive nanoscale force or magnetic sensors, as well as single-photon sources and amplifiers at telecommunications wavelengths. It also may have applications in quantum computing devices. ...> Full Article |
Researchers have recorded the highest operating temperature for a terahertz quantum cascade laser
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 | 3-D images are not only useful in medicine; the observation of internal structures is also invaluable in many other fields of scientific investigation. Recently, researchers from the Hahn-Meitner-Institute (HMI) in Berlin in cooperation with University of Applied Sciences in Berlin have succeeded, for the first time, in a direct, three-dimensional visualisation of magnetic fields inside solid, non-transparent materials. ...> Full Article |
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