Inprentus Awarded NASA SBIR Phase III Contract to Manufacture High-Precision Spherical Gratings for ESIS-II Mission

The ESIS-II mission aims to capture high-speed “snapshot” images of the Sun’s transition region and corona. To achieve this, ...

Metal clumps in a quantum state: Physicists place thousands of sodium atoms in a 'Schrödinger's cat state'

Can a small lump of metal be in a quantum state that extends over distant locations? A research team at the University of Vienna answers this question with a resounding yes. In the journal Nature, ...
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Positronium shows wave behavior for first time, confirming quantum theory prediction

Quantum physics overturned classical ideas by showing that matter behaves very differently at the ...
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First observation of positronium matter-wave diffraction with a graphene grating

First experimental observation of matter-wave diffraction in a short-lived electronpositron atom using a graphene-based ...
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This strange atom just acted like a Quantum wave

“Positronium is the simplest atom composed of equal-mass constituents, and until it self-annihilates, it behaves as a neutral ...
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Observing positronium beam as a quantum matter wave for the first time

For the first time, researchers from Tokyo University of Science have observed wave-like interference patterns from ...
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Scientists capture first-ever real-time images of electrons in the act of breaking bonds

Using short laser pulses, researchers have imaged the exact moment an ammonia molecule bends and sheds a hydrogen atom.