13+ hour, 11+ min ago  (339+ words) Sci Tech Daily Scientists Crack Key Mystery Behind High-Temperature Superconductors New measurements of nickelate superconductors reveal clues about their hidden electronic behavior. The mechanism behind high-temperature (TC) superconductivity remains one of condensed matter physics" major unsolved problems. Chinese researchers have…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (418+ words) Ultrathin terahertz filters could expand satellite, medical, and future 6 G technologies A one-micrometer-thin foil shimmering in gold, red, and green hardly looks like the next big thing in satellite communications. Yet this high-tech filter, produced by the Empa spin-off Lepto…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (188+ words) A bolometer detects radiation using two main components: an absorber, which heats up as it captures incoming radiation, and a thermometer, which converts this temperature rise into a measurable electrical signal. Bolometers are some of the most sensitive radiation detectors…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago  (277+ words) Once a Disrupting Factor, Now a Qubit "This is an exciting finding for us, both because it reveals new fundamental quantum behavior and because of its potential implications for quantum technologies," said Ameya Nambisan from the IQMT. "Our results show…...

2+ day, 27+ min ago  (1228+ words) Diamond, known primarily for its brilliance and aesthetic value, harbors remarkable properties far beyond mere sparkle. Its extreme hardness, exceptional thermal conductivity, and broad optical transparency make it an invaluable material in various scientific and technological domains. More intriguingly, over…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (183+ words) Discovering the physical principles of superconductivity in diamond opens the door for scientists to use it in new quantum technologies image: Jyotirmay Dwivedi, graduate student at Penn State University and first author on the paper, working in Nitin Samarth's laboratory…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (282+ words) Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have for the first time observed Goldstone modes " elusive, charge-neutral quasiparticles " in a twisted tungsten diselenide superlattice. Using an ultrafast imaging technique, the researchers were able to directly capture these collective excitation, which are associated…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago  (1779+ words) The effective low-energy electron-electron interaction that is mediated by fluctuating LCs is given by This interaction can be projected onto the Cooper channel to give a gap equation. Since we are interested in the leading instability, at weak-coupling we may…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (971+ words) A persistent, zero-energy signal extending over unexpectedly long distances within the superconductor Pt Pb4 challenges conventional methods for identifying Majorana bound states. Until now, realising materials with the necessary crystalline structure for topological superconductivity has remained a major obstacle to progress…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago  (1066+ words) A slowing of light, as if caught in a gravitational well, has been demonstrated within a superconducting circuit. This analogue black-white hole, built using SNAIL elements, reveals how soliton waves modulate light's velocity, creating a potential that governs its behaviour....