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Researchers from Tsinghua University and Nanyang Technological University have achieved a major breakthrough in optical skyrmions — tiny topological “knots” of light that are highly promising for future high-capacity and secure data transmission.

By adapting an algorithm from the 1980s to mathematical objects called tensor networks, researchers at the Flatiron Institute show that classical computers can tackle a class of problems previously claimed to be solvable only by quantum computers

A team of researchers from the Max Born Institute, the Ferdinand Braun Institute, the University of Augsburg, and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has succeeded in directly imaging the effect of short current pulses on a skyrmion.

Theorists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign address an experimental paradox by developing a general theory uniting a kind of order known as electronic nematicity with a crystal’s elasticity.

Researchers build world’s smallest interferometer to measure how X-rays and atomic nuclei interact

The researchers study the performance of the PLATON demonstrator by characterising its spatial resolution with data collected in the laboratory for light intensities ranging from a few hundred down to five detected photons.