The optical and material properties of negatively charged nitrogen–vacancy (NV) centres in diamond make them attractive for applications ranging from quantum information to electromagnetic sensing.

Vibrational-rotational transition spectrum with resolved hyperfine structure of HD⁺. Credit: APM Compared with traditional cryogenic cooling or optical pumping methods, this technique significantly ...

ETH Zurich's new quantum chip stores data the way a guitar stores a note, using vibrations, with a simple caveat: it can play ...

Sum-frequency generation (SFG) is a powerful vibrational spectroscopy that can selectively probe molecular structures at surfaces and interfaces, but its spatial resolution has been limited to the ...

Whereas structural and vibrational properties of crystalline materials can be measured in great detail by various techniques, properties of amorphous materials are much harder to resolve. For this and ...

(Medical Xpress)—As occurred in the painstaking deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphs, adherence to outmoded ideas is a lasting impediment to our understanding of how odorants are decoded by the ...

I began my day much like any other — meditation, coffee and exercise. On this particular day, I was traveling with family in an unfamiliar city. We decided to walk to a nearby breakfast place. On our ...