Sculptured materials allow multiple channel plasmonic sensors

Physics / Optics & Photonics

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sensors, communications devices and imaging equipment that use a prism and a special form of light -- a surface plasmon-polariton -- may incorporate multiple channels or redundant applications if manufacturers ...


Ionic Liquid's Makeup Measurably Non-Uniform at the Nanoscale

Physics / Condensed Matter

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Texas Tech University, Queen's University in Belfast, Ireland, the University of Rome and the National Research Council in Italy recently made a discovery about the non-uniform chemical compositions ...


The LHC tunnel

Peckish bird briefly downs big atom smasher

Physics / General Physics

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A peckish bird briefly knocked out part of the world's biggest atom smasher by causing a chain reaction with a piece of bread, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said Monday.


NSLS-II Project Beamline Conceptual Designs

Physics / General Physics

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(PhysOrg.com) -- The NSLS-II Experimental Facilities Division achieved an important milestone in September when the conceptual design reports for the initial six project beamlines were completed and submitted to NSLS-II management.


First Bose-Einstein condensation of strontium

First Bose-Einstein condensation of strontium

Physics / Quantum Physics

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In an international first, scientists from the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI, Austria) produced a Bose-Einstein condensate of the alkaline-earth element strontium, thus narrowly ...


Quantum gas microscope offers glimpse of quirky ultracold atoms

Quantum gas microscope offers glimpse of quirky ultracold atoms

Physics / Quantum Physics

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at Harvard University have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, ...


Solving big problems

Solving big problems with new quantum algorithm

Physics / Quantum Physics

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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recently published paper, Aram Harrow at the University of Bristol and colleagues from MIT in the United States have discovered a quantum algorithm that solves large problems much faster ...


Tiny Music Player Made from Wire Bridge

Tiny Music Player Made from Wire Bridge (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

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(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2008, scientists built a loudspeaker made of carbon nanotubes that produced sound and music based on the thermoacoustic effect. Now, a different team of scientists has built a loudspeaker ...


Ginzburg helped develop the Soviet Union's hydrogen bomb in the late 1940s and early 1950s

Russian bomb physicist Ginzburg dead at 93

Physics / General Physics

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Nobel Physics prize winner Vitaly Ginzburg, who helped develop the Soviet hydrogen bomb, has died at age 93, the Russian Academy of Sciences said Monday.


Contracts Awarded for Production of NSLS-II Storage Ring Magnets

Physics / General Physics

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(PhysOrg.com) -- All seven contracts for the production of the NSLS-II storage ring magnets have now been awarded -- a significant milestone for the project. The magnets -- 750 in total -- will be made by vendors in the United ...


Plasma-in-a-bag for sterilizing devices

Physics / General Physics

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The practice of sterilizing medical tools and devices helped revolutionize health care in the 19th century because it dramatically reduced infections associated with surgery. Through the years, numerous ways of sterilization ...


Materials scientists find better model for glass creation

Materials scientists find better model for glass creation

Physics / Condensed Matter

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard materials scientists have come up with what they believe is a new way to model the formation of glasses, a type of amorphous solid that includes common window glass.


Capturing those in-between moments: Researchers solves timing problem in molecular modeling

Capturing those in-between moments: Researchers solves timing problem in molecular modeling

Physics / General Physics

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A theoretical physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed a method for calculating the motions and forces of thousands of atoms simultaneously over a wider range of time scales ...



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