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Watching Magnetic Materials Get Organized in Real Time A revolutionary Coherent Correlation Imaging method visualizes electronic ordering in magnetic materials and opens a path to new data storage technologies.
Can Four-Quark States Arise from Inside the Proton Itself? Theoretical calculations suggest charm tetraquarks may be less compact than previously thought.
Nuclear Physicists Create Scalable Quantum Circuits to Simulate Fundamental Physics Researchers developed and executed algorithms for preparing the quantum vacuum and hadrons on more than 100 qubits of IBM quantum computers.
Fresh Direct Evidence for Tiny Drops of Quark-Gluon Plasma Particles of light from collisions of deuterons with gold ions provide direct evidence that energetic jets get stuck.

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An artist’s impression of an analog quantum computer in which atoms are manipulated by lasers to simulate quantum many-body systems.

Scientists Take an Important Step toward Mitigating Errors in Analog Quantum Simulations of Many-Body Problems

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Strong interactions between neighboring metal and sulfur atoms are found to influence the properties of electronic excited states created by light absorption, as shown by X-ray spectroscopy methods at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource.

Excited Electronic States of Metallic Atoms Rely on their Sulfuric Neighbors

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Crystallographic and spectroscopic evidence now show that americium and curium yield a variety of polyoxometalate compounds that their lanthanide counterparts are unable to form.

Heavy Ligands Unravel New Chemistry for Heavy Elements

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Illustration of quarkonium states interacting with co-moving particles in relativistic heavy ion collisions.

Scientists Measure the Temperature Achieved in Heavy Ion Collisions by Looking at Broken Particles

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A cartoon of robot-enabled inorganic materials synthesis. The robot selects powder precursors based on new criteria, mixes them by ball milling, moves them to an oven, and measures the results with X-ray diffraction to determine the phase purity.

New Approach to Materials Synthesis—with Quick Validation by a Robotic Lab

Inorganic precursors chosen based on new criteria led to higher phase purity for 32 out of 35 target materials synthesized in a robotic laboratory.

Dilution refrigerators keep superconducting qubits cold.

When to Go Multinode? A Novel Approach Aids Quantum Computer Designers

Researchers use a co-design approach to quantify performance tradeoffs in multinode superconducting quantum computers.

Bacterial communities are naturally grouped together, forming a network of shared toxins and antitoxins.

Unlocking the Passcodes to Manipulate Natural Bacterial Communities

Analysis of bacterial toxin-antitoxin systems sheds new light on how microbes interact with other members of their communities.

Left: geometry of the SPARC tokamak showing the pump volume and the “louver” actuator that restricts gas flow between the plasma and pumping chambers. Right: neutral gas pressure increases strongly with the louver closed.

“Louvers” on the SPARC Fusion Device Should Exhaust Gases as Hot as a Star

Public researchers partner with a private company to improve simulations key to controlling plasma heat in a fusion energy power plant.

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Simulated predicted shape distribution for magic-sized silver clusters (purple insets) assembled at different solvent temperatures. These predictions can guide experiments to target seeds for crystal growth.

Molecular Modeling Reveals How Nanocrystals Take Shape

In a strange metal (translucent box), electrons (blue marbles) lose their individuality and melt into a featureless, liquid-like stream.

Can Electricity Flow Without Electrons?

Illustration of an idealized extraction chromatographic resin using DGA or LN extractants. By studying the adsorption properties of terbium on these DGA and LN resins, scientists gain insights into these properties for the entire lanthanide series.

Understanding the Adsorption Properties of Terbium for Future Medical Use

Structure of Iridium (Ir) dimer complex showing an Ir-Ir bonding molecular orbital populated (left) and an Ir-Ir anti-bonding molecular orbital depopulated (right) by optical excitation.

Advanced Techniques Paint a More Accurate Picture of Molecular Geometry in Metal Complexes

Representation of the magnitude of the elastic πΣ hadron scattering amplitude showing the double-pole structure that suggests the hadron has a pair of resonances at 1380 megaelectronvolts (MeV) and 1405 MeV, not just one at 1405 MeV.

To Understand a Special Hadron, Researchers Turn to Supercomputers and Quantum Chromodynamics

Concept of the automated system for remote dissolution of the irradiated bismuth target and astatine recovery in nitric acid media.

Automation of Nuclear Chemistry Processes Leads to More Efficient Production of Astatine for Cancer Therapy

This sample of niobium has been treated in a process that is typical for preparing particle accelerator components. Tests have revealed how adding oxygen to such components makes them more efficient.

Oxygen Tweaking May Be the Key to Optimizing Particle Accelerators

Visualization of the evolution of the nuclear size and shape from indium and tin isotopes between the major nuclear shells at N=50 and N=82, where N is the number of neutrons in the nucleus.

Testing the Possible Doubly Magic Nature of Tin-100, Researchers Study the Electromagnetic Properties of Indium Isotopes

The dynamics of coupled oscillators, such as those shown here, can be simulated faster with a new quantum algorithm.

Springing Simulations Forward with Quantum Computing

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