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The team developed a platform that uses powerful X-rays from the lab’s LCLS X-ray laser to resolve for the first time the evolution of instabilities in high-density plasmas.

The three atoms of the excited NeKr 2 trimer keep roaming around each other for up to one picosecond. © FHI Together with an international team, researchers from the Molecular Physics Department at the Fritz Haber Institute revealed how atoms rearrange themselves before releasing low-energy electrons in a decay process initiated by X-ray irradiation. For the first time, they gain detailed insights into the timing of the process – shedding light on related radiation damage me

In a landmark achievement at the confluence of artificial intelligence and fundamental physics, a team of researchers from Tongji University, the Chinese university of Hong Kong and Nanyang Technological University has developed an AI algorithm capable of classifying complex topological phases of matter without relying on the mathematical tools that have limited human scientists for decades. This breakthrough, which tackles the notoriously difficult realm of non-Hermitian sys

For the first time, researchers simultaneously used ultrafast X-rays and electrons to image a shockwave in water, a “multi-messenger” view that reveals details previous experiments couldn’t see. Researchers found an unexpected layer of water vapor made the shockwave symmetric, a feature similar to what happens in certain targets used for inertial confinement fusion. The work shows how researchers can use small-but-mighty systems called laser-plasma accelerators to explore the

A team from the Faculty of Physics and the Centre for Quantum Optical Technologies at the Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw has developed a new method for measuring elusive terahertz signals using a "quantum antenna." The authors of the work utilized a novel setup for radio wave detection with Rydberg atoms to not only detect but also precisely calibrate a so-called frequency comb in the terahertz band. This band was until recently a white spot in the electroma

For a long time, the two areas of strong-field physics and quantum optics were considered independent areas of physics research without any significant overlaps. Whilst strong-field physics focuses on the behavior of material, such as atomic gases, in intense light fields, quantum optics focuses on researching special quantum properties of light that cannot be described within the framework of classical physics. Strong-field physics requires intense laser rays, in other words