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Making new metamaterials with quantum dot Lego

Scientists have created materials with surprising optical properties, from arrays of lego-like cubes, made of caesium lead tri-bromide. Caesium lead tri-bromide is in a class of material...

26 September 2024

Forget everything you know about time – part of it could be all in your mind

Society says time is money; but ANU physicist Peter Riggs says aspects of time might not even be real at all. Article by: Elaine Obran, ANU Reporter   Time is largely a mystery. It...

25 September 2024

New quantum algorithm raises the bar on solution efficiency

Researchers have come up with a radical new algorithm to significantly boost the performance of quantum computers in certain problems, and also show that classical solutions can be just...

16 August 2024

Polariton laser displays surprising purity

A laser based on exciton-polaritons, hybrid particles of light and matter, may boost precision laser technology to another level. A team from the Quantum Science and Technology (QST)...

8 August 2024

Liquid lenses for better satellite monitoring

In an exciting first, HIAF has helped test innovative liquid lenses that enable a satellite to take a selfie. The Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility’s Space Irradiation Beamline...

24 July 2024

ANU physicists are using lasers to give the Sydney Harbour Bridge a makeover

by Rebeka Selmeczki If you’ve ever walked into a shop selling Australian merchandise, you will have noticed one of the nation’s most iconic symbols, the Sydney Harbour...

11 July 2024

Optical counterparts of diodes could spur new area of technology

The inventors of nano-isolators – the optical equivalent of a diode – say the device could start a technology revolution. In the 1950s, a technological revolution in electronics...

10 July 2024

Mysterious sixth-order transition hints at enigmatic nuclear process

Physicists have seen the only known example of a sixth-order electromagnetic decay process in nature, emitted as a gamma ray from an excited state in iron-53 nuclei.   The team...

5 July 2024

Built in quality control to make quantum tech more reliable

One of quantum technology’s most powerful tools is interference, in which two or more identical particles interact in surprising ways – sometimes adding together, but sometimes...

5 June 2024

Megavolts Ep 10: Cygnus and the search for dark matter

Is there dark matter all around us, is there a dark matter wind passing through us as the earth travels through space? Victoria Uttaree Bashu is part of the Cygnus-Oz collaboration,...

19 April 2024

Nanoscale tent makes diabetes breath test a reality

The accidental creation of a tent mere microns in area has enabled a breath test for diabetes, which could change the lives of millions of people with the disease. The new device,...

11 April 2024

Using a dynamic metasurface for amplification of free space radiation

Physicists have devised an ultra-thin dynamic amplifier for electromagnetic radiation using a parametric metasurface. A parametric metasurface is a thin composite material with small-scale...

14 March 2024

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