Quantum mechanics has a reputation that precedes it. Virtually everyone who has bumped up against the quantum realm, whether ...

An international team of researchers has found a way to control the spin of electrons – from a normal state to excited and back again – in a silicon-based material, and in the process to get ...

A group of researchers has been studying how to manipulate the states of Rydberg atoms. These are atoms with one electron excited to a very highly energetic state (see sidebar).

A false colour scanning electron microscopy image of the 8x8 array of maXs30 detectors. (Courtesy: Matthäus Krantz) Nuclear clocks are a tick closer to reality thanks to experiments that measured the ...

Article Open access Published: 26 May 2015 An incompressible state of a photo-excited electron gas Alexei D. Chepelianskii, Masamitsu Watanabe, Kostyantyn Nasyedkin, Kimitoshi Kono & Denis ...

Nowadays, we know that the lowest excited-energy state of the thorium-229 nucleus, called an isomer state, is located at the lowest known energy among all nuclei, at an energy that is orders of ...

Exploding excited electron bubbles 31 Mar 2003 First observations of excited electron bubbles in superfluid helium reveal puzzling features The “particle in a box” is a standard second-year ...

Silver-110’s decay reveals a promising path to measure antineutrino mass. New data could reshape future neutrino studies. Neutrinos and antineutrinos are fundamental particles that possess mass, ...

Superradiance of an ensemble of nuclei excited by a free electron laser Date: December 15, 2017 Source: RIKEN Summary: Scientists have succeeded in verifying a basic prediction of the quantum ...

While single electron spins are insufficient to build quantum devices, this experiment is a reasonable proof-of-principle, and shows how multi-spin systems could be developed.

An Ohio State University emeritus professor is among this year's Nobel Prize winners. Pierre Agostini won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his study of electron dynamics in matter. He shares the ...