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Grasshopper of Acrididae family: Anacridium aegyptium

How to cut your lawn for grasshoppers

22 Nov 2017

Picture a grasshopper landing randomly on a lawn of fixed area. If it then jumps a certain distance in a random direction, what shape should the lawn...

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New type of supercomputer could be based on ‘magic dust’ combination of light and matter

25 Sep 2017

A team of researchers from the UK and Russia have successfully demonstrated that a type of ‘magic dust’ which combines light and matter can be used...

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Microscope image of a quantum LED device showing bright quantum emitter generating a stream of single photons.

Ultra-thin quantum LEDs could accelerate development of quantum networks

07 Oct 2016

Researchers have developed all-electrical ultra-thin quantum LEDs, which have potential as on-chip photon sources in quantum information applications...

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Regime of a single 1D wire subband filled

A tight squeeze for electrons – quantum effects observed in ‘one-dimensional’ wires

15 Sep 2016

Researchers have observed quantum effects in electrons by squeezing them into one-dimensional ‘quantum wires’ and observing the interactions between...

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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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Vortex rings as the result of vortex multiplication in a quantum fluid; some electrons are free, and some got trapped by one or more vortices

Hunt for an unidentified electron object

25 Mar 2014

New research sheds light on the nature of ‘unidentified electron objects’ - a mysterious class of objects that exists in superfluid helium at low...

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This is the experimental setup used to generate femtosecond laser pulses which serve as an ultrafast "flash " for the camera so that very rapid phenomenon can be filmed

Quantum waves at the heart of organic solar cells

12 Dec 2013

Researchers have been able to tune ‘coherence’ in organic nanostructures due to the surprise discovery of wavelike electrons in organic materials...

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Sir Richard Friend and David Harding

Physics of sustainability programme launched

24 Mar 2011

Funded by a £20 million donation from David Harding, the Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability aims to address some of the major...

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