A superconducting qubit used as an ultra-sensitive sensor in the radio-frequency domain A LKB team has demonstrated an unprecedentedly low-frequency superconducting “fluxonium” qubit, which could facilitate experiments that probe macroscopic quantum phenomena.The...
Universal Casimir attraction between filaments at the cell level Numerical simulations reveal that long-range interaction between objects in an ionic fluid, via electromagnetic field fluctuations, plays an important role for filamentary objects, with implications for...
Fei Xia wins Optica Foundation Challenge to develop smart microscope Fei Xia, a postdoctoral researcher in the Complex Media Optics team led by Sylvain Gigan, has won a $100,000 grant from the Optica Foundation to explore new approaches for disease screening and...
Long-lived metrological spin squeezing Atomic clocks and sensors are among the most precise measurement instruments in the world, but they can still be improved. Indeed, all of them so far use uncorrelated atoms, creating statistical noise known as quantum projection...
The adjustment of fundamental constants: a tool for new physics searches The values of fundamental constants such as the fine-structure constant, the mass of the electron or proton, the Rydberg constant, are determined by a variety of high-precision experiments:...
