Updated: 2023-06-30 20:23:38
No blogging here the past few weeks, partly because I was away on vacation for a little while, but more because there hasn’t been anything I’ve seen worth writing about. Yesterday’s pulsar timing array and IceCube announcements unfortunately didn’t tell … Continue reading →
Updated: 2023-06-30 10:00:00
Author(s): Michael SchirberThe path of a gravitational wave passing near a galaxy can be bent, producing multiple signals that could help next-generation detectors measure the expansion of the Universe.[Physics 16, 117] Published Fri Jun 30, 2023
Updated: 2023-06-30 10:00:00
Author(s): Kohei KawabataTwo experimental studies realized enhanced atomic sensing and chiral heat transport near exceptional points—singularities inherent to open, non-Hermitian systems.[Physics 16, 107] Published Fri Jun 30, 2023
Updated: 2023-06-29 10:00:00
Author(s): Katherine WrightResearchers demonstrate a fluxonium qubit that retains its quantum information for 1.43 milliseconds, 10 times longer than the previous best lifetime for this system.[Physics 16, s92] Published Thu Jun 29, 2023
Updated: 2023-06-29 10:00:00
Jorge Cham, aka PHD Comics, illustrates how researchers have turned our Galaxy into a giant antenna for catching gravitational waves, spotting for the first time a background hum of such waves.[Physics 16, 116] Published Thu Jun 29, 2023
Updated: 2023-06-28 10:00:00
Author(s): Sophia ChenNuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy offers strong evidence that YPtBi can exhibit topological superconductivity, a property that could be harnessed to build quantum computers.[Physics 16, s93] Published Wed Jun 28, 2023
Updated: 2023-06-27 10:00:00
Author(s): Katherine WrightResearchers have achieved superconductivity in a ternary hydride, widening the material possibilities for high-temperature superconductivity studies.[Physics 16, s98] Published Tue Jun 27, 2023
Updated: 2023-06-26 10:00:00
Author(s): Anton Frisk KockumA device’s selective interaction with left- and right-propagating modes could pave the way for directional information flow in quantum computing based on superconducting circuits.[Physics 16, 103] Published Mon Jun 26, 2023
Updated: 2023-06-22 10:00:00
Author(s): Michael SchirberA search for oscillations in the frequencies of optical clocks has come up empty, implying new bounds on ultralight dark matter particles.[Physics 16, s87] Published Thu Jun 22, 2023
Updated: 2023-06-21 10:00:00
Author(s): Ryan WilkinsonA detailed blueprint for a molecular-spin-based quantum processor brings this technology closer to reality.[Physics 16, s90] Published Wed Jun 21, 2023
Updated: 2023-06-20 10:00:00
Author(s): Allison GaspariniSimulations indicate that it could be possible to detect gravitational-wave signals emanating from a dying star.[Physics 16, 105] Published Tue Jun 20, 2023
Updated: 2023-06-16 10:00:00
Author(s): Charles DayWarning of the catastrophic collapse of a neutron star could come in the form of potentially detectable radio bursts in the 10–20 gigahertz range.[Physics 16, s88] Published Fri Jun 16, 2023
Updated: 2023-06-16 10:00:00
Author(s): David EhrensteinDropping a rotating plastic bottle containing water results in a bounce whose height depends on the rotation rate.[Physics 16, 102] Published Fri Jun 16, 2023
Updated: 2023-06-15 10:00:00
Author(s): Ryan WilkinsonFuture space-based gravitational-wave detectors could probe the physics of accretion disks surrounding massive black holes.[Physics 16, s82] Published Thu Jun 15, 2023
Updated: 2023-06-14 10:00:00
Author(s): Charles DayExperiments on a family of cuprate superconductors resolve discrepancies in previous work and elucidate why the critical temperature varies with pressure. [Physics 16, s85] Published Wed Jun 14, 2023
Updated: 2023-06-13 10:00:00
Author(s): Martin Rodriguez-VegaResearchers may have found an unstable sodium nucleus that has an excited state with a spherical wave function—an elusive prospect for the study of nuclear shapes.[Physics 16, s79] Published Tue Jun 13, 2023
Updated: 2023-06-13 10:00:00
Author(s): Michael SchirberUsing a “bad” acoustic mirror, physicists demonstrate a phonon beam splitter, a device that could one day be used to make phonon-based quantum logic gates.[Physics 16, 99] Published Tue Jun 13, 2023
Updated: 2023-06-12 10:00:00
Author(s): Nikhil KarthikPredictions indicate that a new type of measurement at the future electron–ion collider could spot an elusive high-density regime of gluons called the color glass condensate. [Physics 16, s89] Published Mon Jun 12, 2023
Updated: 2023-06-08 10:00:00
Author(s): Marric StephensA new system could allow autonomous aircraft to correct the pitch of their wings to account for gusts of wind that abruptly change lift in real time.[Physics 16, s86] Published Thu Jun 08, 2023
Updated: 2023-06-07 10:00:00
Author(s): Rachel BerkowitzResearchers have developed an optimization algorithm to help identify the location of an electric current surge in a power grid, without knowledge of the grid’s broad structure.[Physics 16, s83] Published Wed Jun 07, 2023
Updated: 2023-06-06 10:00:00
Author(s): David EhrensteinModel improvements uncover more information on the link between grazing animals and the formation of spiral vegetation patterns in arid climates.[Physics 16, s84] Published Tue Jun 06, 2023
