Things have been somewhat hectic, my little pup had some abscessed teeth and was circling for days. I've been beside myself until the vet's appointment today. She is doing much better now. But, I had made note of a couple of articles and I know how much we enjoy learning whats being discovered. If I already posted these, just overlook my absent mindedness.
Creating Quantum Matter...wants to better understand the spatial organization of ultra cold atoms with the goal of learning more about condensed matter physics and quantum mechanics.
The research is a starting point to develop new and innovative states of matter, and observe the particles interacting with each other in different ways, he says. “We have already done a few things,” he says. “The Bose Einstein condensate in the lattice is a superfluid which can flow without resistance--a certain quantum state related to superconductivity--and it will keep on flowing forever.”
With this material, “you can transition from one state to another and create new states of matter,” he adds. “You can go from a superfluid to an insulator, from something with no resistance to something with no flow, and you can even create new magnetic states. In that case, each atom behaves like a little compass needle, but each needle points in different directions at the same time. This is quantum magnetism.”
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Nanowrinkles, nanofolds yield strange hidden channelsWrinkles and folds, common in nature, do something unusual at the nanoscale. Researchers at Brown University and in Korea have discovered that wrinkles on super-thin films have hidden long waves. The team also found that folds in the film produce nanochannels, like thousands of tiny subsurface pipes. The research could lead to advances in medicine, electronics and energy.
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Science discoveries can sometimes cause one to fear what their intentions are to do with something like this.