Sentences with phrase «quantum nature of matter»

Physicists have used the quantum nature of matter to obtain a highly precise value for the universal gravitational constant, the «big G» that appears in Isaac Newton's law of how gravity pulls together everything, from planets to apples.

To get closer to the true, quantum nature of matter, physicist David Pritchard has been splitting atoms down the middle, fiddling with the halves, and then putting them back together.

And these laws had a minimum disturbance which could not be reduced because of the quantum nature of matter.

Not exact matches

Classification of topological quantum phases has brought about a fundamental notion of SPT phases, which are exotic states under the protection of symmetries, and greatly expand our understanding of the fundamental nature of quantum matter.

This special issue addresses modern developments in controlling and manipulating light: how light - based technologies are shrinking and becoming faster (Koenderink et al., p. 516); how recent theoretical developments in the manipulation of light are being implemented to provide materials with properties not available in nature (Pendry et al., p. 521); how the quantum properties of light are being exploited in new technologies (Walmsley, p. 525); and how new light sources are coming online that can probe the structure of matter on spatial and time scales that provide an exquisitely detailed picture of our microscopic world (Miao et al., p. 530).

Harnessing the shared wave nature of light and matter, researchers at the University of Chicago led by Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Physics Jonathan Simon have used light to explore some of the most intriguing questions in the quantum mechanics of materials.

Now the theory made a concrete prediction, namely one, there should exist a new fundamental particle and, two, all the other particles in nature; the matter particles and the quantum mediating forces should gain mass; three interactions with these particles which brings us back to the 4th of July 2012.

A study on page 298 of this week's Nature unveils an atlas of materials that might host topological effects, giving physicists many more places to go looking for bizarre states of matter such as Weyl fermions or quantum - spin liquids.

In a study led by the University of Leeds and published today in the journal Nature, researchers detail a way of altering the quantum interactions of matter in order to «fiddle the numbers» in a mathematical equation that determines whether elements are magnetic, called the Stoner Criterion.