Now, researchers at JILA, led by JILA Fellows and University of Colorado physics professors Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn, along with graduate students Emma Nelson, Theodore Culman, Brendan McBennett, and former JILA postdoctoral researchers Albert Beardo and Joshua Knobloch, have developed a novel microscope that makes examining these materials possible on an unprecedented scale. The team’s work, recently published in Physical Review Applied, introduces a tabletop deep-ultraviolet (DUV) laser that can excite and probe nanoscale transport behaviors in materials such as diamond.

While atoms are known to wiggle very fast, dopants added to a cuprate superconductor can also cause atoms to meander very slowly. A SLAC study shows this process, called atomic relaxation, offers a new way to explore quantum states in these puzzling materials.

In a recent study, researchers from Chiba University delved into a promising path toward solid-state optical cooling using perovskite quantum dots. Focused on anti-Stokes photoluminescence, a process in which materials emit higher-energy photons than they absorb, this research could revolutionize the existing cooling technology. Their findings highlight both the potential and limitations of this novel cooling approach, with exciting prospects in energy-saving technology.

A study coordinated by the University of Trento with the University of Chicago proposes a generalized approach to treat the interactions between electrons and light. In the future, it may contribute to the development of quantum technologies but also to the discovery of newstates of matter. The study has been published in Physics Review Letters.

UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering Prof. Andrew Cleland has been named a 2024 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow, the U.S. Department of Defense’s flagship single-investigator award for basic research.

Quantum Computing Inc. (Nasdaq: QUBT), an innovative quantum optics and nanophononics technology company, today appointed Dr. Javad Shabani to its Board of Directors. Dr. Shabani currently serves as an Associate Professor of Physics at New York University (NYU) and is the Director of the Center for Quantum Information Physics at NYU.

In the study published in the journal Physical Review Letters on February 15, 2024, the researchers reveal that the PbV center emits photons of specific frequencies that are not influenced by the crystal’s vibrational energy. These characteristics make the photons dependable carriers of quantum information for large-scale quantum networks.