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The Nobel Prize in physics is going to Kao, Boyle and Smith

— 6 October 10:12

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, has decided to award the Nobel Prize in physics for 2009 with one half to Charles K. Kao, Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, Harlow, UK, and Chinese University of Hong Kong 'for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication' and the other half jointly to Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA 'for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor', (c) The Chinese University of Hong Kong, GCS Research Society, IEEEThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, has decided to award the Nobel Prize in physics for 2009 with one half to Charles K. Kao, Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, Harlow, UK, and Chinese University of Hong Kong 'for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication' and the other half jointly to Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA 'for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor'... — full story


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With two laser beams the researchers generate an optical lattice (grey), where the atoms are confined to vertical one-dimensional structures (red) with up to 15 atoms aligned in each tube, (c) Institute for Experimental Physics, University of InnsbruckAtoms don't dance the 'Bose Nova'

— 3 September 18:00

Hanns-Christoph Naegerl's research group has investigated how ultracold quantum gases behave in lower spatial dimensions. They successfully realised an exotic state, where, due to the... — full story

Look into the ion trap, (c) C. LacknerQuantum measurements: Common sense is not enough

— 22 July 17:00

In comparison to classical physics, quantum physics predicts that the properties of a quantum mechanical system depend on the measurement context, i.e. whether or not other system measurements... — full story

Microscope image of the surface of a 3D photonic crystal, which was observed from an oblique direction. The surface structure is modified to have a surface-mode gap, (c) Susumu Noda, Kyoto UniversityManipulation of photons at crystal surface

— 15 July 17:00

In the most recent (16 July) issue of Nature Japanese researchers reveal manipulation of photons at the surface of photonic crystals, an important step towards realising novel optical... — full story

The optical set-up used for these experiments. Two light beams were created by two lasers and were shone onto a single molecule, where one laser beam acted as a gate to determine attenuation or amplification of the other, (c) Martin PototschnigA single-molecule optical transistor

— 1 July 17:00

An optical transistor that uses photons to carry and manipulate information is revealed in a paper titled 'A single-molecule optical transistor' in the current issue of Nature (2 July... — full story

Freely falling granular streams behave similarly to water flowing from a faucet. These granular streams behave like dense, cold fluids with ultra-low surface tension (cohesion between individual molecules), (c) John RoyerStreaming sand grains help define essence of a liquid

— 24 June 17:00

Water forms droplets because attractive interactions between molecules produce surface tension. If macroscopic objects - say, grains of sand - replace the molecules, the relative strength... — full story

Here QUIET team members display circuitry and components developed for the detection of gravity waves: physics graduate students Immanuel Buder and Alison Brizius (front row); Colin Bischoff, physics graduate student; David Moore, undergraduate in physics; Akito Kusaka, postdoctoral fellow in the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics; and Bruce Winstein, the Samuel K. Allison Distinguished Service Professor in Physics (back row, l-r), (c) Lloyd DeGraneQUIET team to deploy new gravity-wave probe in June

— 16 May 13:37

A tiny fraction of a second following the big bang, the universe allegedly experienced the most inflationary period it has ever known. During this inflationary era, space expanded faster... — full story


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Construction of the experiment with ultracold neutrons, (c) Christian Plonka-SpehrPhysicists at Mainz University generate ultracold neutrons at the TRIGA Reactor

— 29 December 13:54

For the first time ever, scientists at the TRIGA research reactor of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have determined the velocity distribution of ultracold neutrons (UCN) emitted... — full story


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