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Gravity waves could hold key to supersymmetry

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 05, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (59) | comments 11 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- "In Geneva," Anupam Mazumdar tells PhysOrg.com, "there is a big effort to discover supersymmetry particles at the Large Hadron Collider. But that is not the only way to find these particles. We should also b ...





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German scientists produce first Bose-Einstein condensate with calcium atoms

German scientists produce first Bose-Einstein condensate with calcium atoms

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Physicists at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Germany) have succeeded in producing a Bose-Einstein condensate from the alkaline earth element calcium. The use of alkaline earth atoms creates new ...


Jumping into the quantum whirlpool

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 18, 2007 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (11) | comments 0

A University of Queensland quantum physicist is applying a new theory to an old problem.


Flatland physics probes mysteries of superfluidity

Flatland physics probes mysteries of superfluidity

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 3

(Physorg.com) -- If physicists lived in Flatland—the fictional two-dimensional world invented by Edwin Abbott in his 1884 novel—some of their quantum physics experiments would turn out differently (not just ...


First Bose-Einstein condensation of strontium

First Bose-Einstein condensation of strontium

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 5

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 ...


Physicists Trash Turbulence Lab

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created Apr 13, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Warwick have trashed the world's biggest turbulence lab by turning a pleasant stream into a raging torrent - but they say their actions will lead new understandings in one of the main unsolved ...


Buffer gas cooling could open up the field of ultracold physics

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 2 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Scientists have been making Bose-Einstein Condensates [BECs] for nearly 15 years," Charlie Doret tells PhysOrg.com. "Essentially all BEC research to date, however, begins with laser cooling. Unfortunately, ...


Cross-Dressing Rubidium May Reveal Clues for Exotic Computing

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Neutral atoms--having no net electric charge--usually don't act very dramatically around a magnetic field. But by “dressing them up” with light, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute, a collaborative ...


Bose-Einstein condensation in the solid state

Bose-Einstein condensation in the solid state

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 27, 2006 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (49) | comments 0

New experimental research shows that half-matter, half-light quasi-particles called polaritons show compelling evidence of Bose-Einstein condensation at the relatively high temperature of 19 degrees Kelvin. ...


Researchers Create New Form of Matter

Physics / General Physics

created May 17, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (178) | comments 0

Physicists at the University of Pittsburgh have demonstrated a new form of matter that melds the characteristics of lasers with those of the world's best electrical conductors - superconductors.


Physicists discover important step for making light crystals (w/Videos)

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 3

Ohio State University researchers have developed a new strategy to overcome one of the major obstacles to a grand challenge in physics.



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