Disorders in a superconductor trigger strange quantum behavior
A new study reveals that highly disordered indium oxide superconductors undergo a first-order quantum phase transition — a…
SpaceX knocks out 1st of final 2 Space Coast launches of 2024
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain SpaceX knocked out a midnight launch from Cape Canaveral on Sunday, but has a…
Countdown to a nuclear clock: a three minute guide
Precise timekeeping helps us in our daily lives: from pinpointing your precise location with GPS to synchronising financial…
Simulating non-completely positive actions via exponentiation of Hermitian-preserving maps
Hermitian-preserving map exponentiation The circuit of HME is sketched in Fig. 1c. To implement the evolution of \({e}^{-i{\mathcal{N}}(\rho…
Ancient genomes provide final word in Indo-European linguistic origins
Distribution of Bell Beaker-derived and Yamnaya-derived ancestry proportions obtained from the IBD admixture model. The proportion of each…
Quantum origin of anomalous Floquet phases in cavity-QED materials
Model Hamiltonian The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model has been a canonical model of a topological insulator in one dimension…
Long-theorized quantum spin liquids observed in the lab
A team of researchers from Switzerland and France and theoretical physicists in Canada and the U.S., including Rice…
Iceland authorizes whale hunting until 2029
Iceland is one of just three countries that still allow whaling, along with Japan and Norway. Iceland, one…
Uncovering the environmental drivers of black spot syndrome
An ocean surgeonfish with black spot syndrome. Credit: Cheyenna de Wit For many researchers in biology and other…
Guarantees on the structure of experimental quantum networks
Necessary constraints on quantum network correlations Characterizing the correlations that are generated in network scenarios is a notably…
Is there any science behind the practice of ‘grounding’ or ‘earthing’?
After a long day, there’s little doubt that walking through nature or sitting in a park can be…
Environment induced dynamical quantum phase transitions in two-qubit Rabi model
Dissipative quantum Rabi model with two interacting qubits We consider two interacting qubits connected through a harmonic oscillator…