News articles tagged with 'fermion'
JQI physicists demonstrate coveted 'spin-orbit coupling' in atomic gases
— 3 Mar 2011 14:17 | PhysicsPhysicists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland-College Park, have for the…
Study probes link between magnetism, superconductivity
— 14 Dec 2010 20:15 | PhysicsEuropean and U.S. physicists this week are offering up the strongest evidence yet that magnetism is the driving force behind unconventional superconductivity. The findings by researchers…
Princeton-led team discovers 'exotic' superconductor with metallic surface
— 3 Nov 2010 11:47 | PhysicsA new material with a split personality - part superconductor, part metal - has been observed by a Princeton University-led research team. The discovery may have implications for the…
Magnetism's subatomic roots
— 4 Sep 2010 10:39 | PhysicsThe modern world - with its ubiquitous electronic devices and electrical power - can trace its lineage directly to the discovery, less than two centuries ago, of the link between electricity…
Do bosons ever masquerade as fermions?
— 26 Jun 2010 14:07 | PhysicsOf all the assumptions underlying quantum mechanics and the theory that describes how particles interact at the most elementary level, perhaps the most basic is that particles are either…
First images of heavy electrons in action
— 2 Jun 2010 17:00 | PhysicsUsing a microscope designed to image the arrangement and interactions of electrons in crystals, scientists have captured the first images of electrons that appear to take on extraordinary…
Scientists get a grip on colliding fermions to enhance atomic clock accuracy
— 16 Apr 2009 18:00 | TechnologyPhysicists have measured and controlled seemingly forbidden collisions between neutral strontium atoms - a class of antisocial atoms known as fermions that are not supposed to collide…
Physicists discover important step for making light crystals
— 10 Apr 2009 13:16 | PhysicsOhio State University researchers have developed a new strategy to overcome one of the major obstacles to a grand challenge in physics…
Ultracold gas mimics ultrahot plasma
— 16 Feb 2009 12:56 | PhysicsSeveral years after Duke University researchers announced spectacular behaviour of a low density ultracold gas cloud, researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory have observed strikingly…
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