Aluminium Antimonide – a Semiconductor
Aluminium antimonide (AlSb) is a semiconductor combining aluminium and antimony from the group III-V family. Aluminum arsenic antimonide, aluminum gallium antimonide, and aluminum indium antimonide…
Physics
Domain Walls the Strange New Quantum Object Created By Scientists
For the first time, a weird quantum entity known as a “domain wall” has been generated in a laboratory. Even though there is nothing there,…
Physicists Set New Upper Limit for Neutrino Mass With Record Precision
Physicists have spent decades seeking to determine the mass of neutrinos, one of the most poorly understood common subatomic particles. They do, however, have a…
Using Relativity to Secure Data Transfers
To combat hacking, researchers created a new system based on the concept of ‘zero-knowledge proofs,’ the security of which is based on the physical principle…
Electric Fields Could Be the Secret to Making It Rain
A study of electrostatic interactions between water droplets may have paved the way for rain to fall where we want it, rather than where we…
Mysterious X-Particles Detected In Plasma Mimicking Moments after the Big Bang
Physicists have evoked short-lived X particles – so termed because nothing is known about their nature – in an attempt to explain the universe’s behavior…
243-Year-Old Impossible Puzzle Solved Using Quantum Entanglement
Leonhard Euler, a prominent mathematician, posed a question over 240 years ago: if six army regiments each contain six commanders of six different ranks, can…
Particles May Feel Gravitational Fields’ Effects – Even When There is No Gravity
Even when put in a zone where both the electric and magnetic fields are zero, charged particles like electrons can be sensitive to the effects…
A Single Cold Atom Has Imaged For a Fraction of a Second
Scientists can now image a single cold atom in a fraction of a second, a significant technological advancement in the study of quantum physics at…
Next-generation Interferometers may rely on Optical Cavities
An optical cavity is a mirror setup that generates a standing wave cavity resonator for light waves. A laser is the most common type of…
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