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Understanding the Tantalizing Benefits of Tantalum for Improved Quantum Processors

“Scientists decode the chemical profile of tantalum surface oxides to understand loss and improve qubit performance. Whether it’s baking a cake, building a house, or developing a quantum device, the quality of the end product significantly depends on its …

Stretching Metals Allows Researchers to Create Materials for Quantum, Electronic and Spintronic Applications

“A University of Minnesota-led team has developed a first-of-its-kind, breakthrough method that makes it easier to create high-quality metal oxide thin films out of “stubborn” metals that have historically been difficult to synthesize in an atomically precise manner. This research …

‘Charge Density Wave’ Linked to Atomic Distortions in Would-be Superconductor

“Precision measurements reveal connection between electron density and atomic arrangements in charge-ordered states of a superconducting copper-oxide material What makes some materials carry current with no resistance? Scientists are trying to unravel the complex characteristics. Harnessing this property, known as …

STAR Physicists Track Sequential ‘Melting’ of Upsilons

“Findings provide evidence for ‘deconfinement’ and insight into seething temperature of the hottest matter on Earth Scientists using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to study some of the hottest matter ever created in a laboratory have published their first …

Lunar Telescope Will Search for Ancient Radio Waves

“DOE and NASA are collaborating to land a radio telescope on the far side of the moon and probe an unexplored era of the early universe. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory are …

New Quantum Sensing Technique Reveals Magnetic Connections

“A research team supported by the Q-NEXT quantum research center demonstrates a new way to use quantum sensors to tease out relationships between microscopic magnetic fields. Say you notice a sudden drop in temperature on both your patio and …

Ionic Liquids’ Good Vibrations Change Laser Colors with Ease

“Method offers approach to shift laser colors for applications in science, industry, and medicine. Lasers are intense beams of colored light. Depending on their color and other properties, they can scan your groceries, cut through metal, eradicate tumors, and even …

Light Accelerates Conductivity in Nature’s ‘Electric Grid’

“The natural world possesses its own intrinsic electrical grid composed of a global web of tiny bacteria-generated nanowires in the soil and oceans that “breathe” by exhaling excess electrons. In a new study, Yale University researchers discovered that light is …

New Type of Entanglement Lets Scientists ‘See’ Inside Nuclei

“First-ever observation of quantum interference between dissimilar particles offers new approach for mapping distribution of gluons in atomic nuclei—and potentially more Nuclear physicists have found a new way to use the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)—a particle collider …

What Triggers Flow Fluctuations in Heavy-Ion Collision Debris?

“Comprehensive study pointing to initial state influences on particle flow patterns will help nuclear physicists zero in on key properties of matter that mimics the early universe Scientists in the STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)—an …