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A peek inside the box that could help solve a quantum mystery

19 Nov 2024

An elusive particle that first formed in the hot, dense early universe has puzzled physicists for decades. Following its discovery in 2003...

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New result from LHCb experiment challenges leading theory in physics

23 Mar 2021

UK particle physicists have today announced ‘intriguing’ results that potentially cannot be explained by the current laws of nature.

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Revealing the personal side of the atomic scientist who changed the world

22 Sep 2017

War diaries, scrapbooks, letters and photographs belonging to Sir John Cockcroft, Nobel Prize winner and one of the most influential scientists of...

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World’s 'smallest magnifying glass' makes it possible to see individual chemical bonds between atoms

10 Nov 2016

Using the strange properties of tiny particles of gold, researchers have concentrated light down smaller than a single atom, letting them look at...

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Excitation of a spin liquid on a honeycomb lattice with neutrons.

New state of matter detected in a two-dimensional material

04 Apr 2016

Researchers have observed the ‘fingerprint’ of a mysterious new quantum state of matter in a two-dimensional material, in which electrons break apart...

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Atomic structure of the SiV- color center, consisting of an Si impurity (red) situated on an interstitial position along the bond axis and surrounded by a split-vacancy (transparent) and the next-neighbor carbon atoms (grey).

Gone in 45 nanoseconds – but a new opportunity for quantum control?

22 Dec 2014

In a breakthrough study scientists have revealed the coherence, or the visibility lifespan, of the spin of an electron in an emerging colour centre...

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