When the formalism of quantum mechanics is applied to experiments involving microscopic objects such as electrons, we often find that the resulting description assigns finite probability amplitudes to...
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In a ‘scale-free’ network of many interconnected nodes, like the Internet, most of the nodes are connected to a relatively small number of other nodes. Only a very small minority have a la...
The DONUT team fired an intense beam of neutrinos, which they expected to contain tau neutrinos, at a target consisting of iron plates with layers of emulsion sandwiched between them. One in a million...
Oliphant was born in Adelaide in 1901 and attended the local university before going to Cambridge University in 1927, where he worked on nuclear physics experiments with Ernest Rutherford. In 1937 he ...
Stefan Hell and co-workers at Gottingen have adapted a technique known as fluorescence microscopy. In this form of microscopy the specimen is irradiated at a wavelength which excites either natural or...
Special relativity prevents any object with mass travelling at the speed of light, and the principle of causality – the notion that the cause comes before the effect – is used to rule out ...
The device has three electrodes: a niobium injector electrode; a common electrode that consists of a layer of niobium and a layer of aluminium; and a niobium detector electrode. The electrodes are sep...
Helium-6 is a typical neutron-skin nucleus, with two of the neutrons forming a “skin” around the alpha-particle core. Different types of dynamics are possible in such nuclei. In the soft d...
In harmonic generation a short pulse of intense radiation is focussed into a gas of atoms. The laser-atom interactions are highly nonlinear, and a number of the input photons effectively combine to ge...
In his original thought experiment, Schrodinger imagined that a cat is locked in a box, along with a radioactive atom that is connected to a vial containing a deadly poison. If the atom decays, it cau...
