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The first historical steps of radioactivity research offer an excellent opportunity to teach a key concept of modern physics: non-deterministic phenomena. However, this opportunity is often wasted because of historical misconceptions and of the irrational ...
Iop Publishing Ltd2024Disruption avoidance and investigation of the H-Mode density limit in ASDEX Upgrade
Alessandro Pau, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Bernhard Sieglin
In recent years a strong effort has been made to investigate disruption avoidance schemes in order to aid the development of integrated operational scenarios for ITER. Within the EUROfusion programme the disruptive H-mode density limit (HDL) has been studi ...
Bristol2024Nano-MOSFET - Foundation of Quantum Computing Part I
Edoardo Charbon, Fabio Sebastiano
As big strides were being made in many science fields in the 1970s and 80s, faster computation for solving problems in molecular biology, semiconductor technology, aeronautics, particle physics, etc., was at the forefront of research. Parallel and super-co ...
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023Backtracking Dynamical Cavity Method
Lenka Zdeborová, Freya Behrens, Barbora Hudcová
The cavity method is one of the cornerstones of the statistical physics of disordered systems such as spin glasses and other complex systems. It is able to analytically and asymptotically exactly describe the equilibrium properties of a broad range of mode ...
2023Experimental History and the History of Experience: Reconstructing the Scientific Expeditions of the 1770s to Mont Buet
On September 20, 1770, the brothers Jean-André and Guillaume-Antoine Deluc, two scientists from Geneva, finally reached the summit of Mont Buet (3096m) after two unsuccessful attempts. From this vantage point overlooking the Alps and Mont Blanc, they perfo ...
2022Historical perspective and basic principles
We give a broad overview of the historical development and physics of Brillouin scattering. We discuss the seminal papers of Brillouin and Mandelstam and give the historical context of their research. We discuss the development of experiments and observati ...
Elsevier2022Kibble-Zurek exponent and chiral transition of the period-4 phase of Rydberg chains
Frédéric Mila, Natalia Chepiga
Chains of Rydberg atoms have emerged as an amazing playground to study quantum physics in 1D. Playing with inter-atomic distances and laser detuning, one can in particular explore the commensurate-incommensurate transition out of density waves through the ...
NATURE RESEARCH2021The spectrum of early career physics
There isn't one single 'early career experience' in physics, and different subfields involve very different opportunities and challenges. Seven early career physicists who work on a range of research topics in different subfields discuss their views on the ...
NATURE PORTFOLIO2021Continuous dissipative phase transitions with or without symmetry breaking
The paradigm of second-order phase transitions (PTs) induced by spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in thermal and quantum systems is a pillar of modern physics that has been fruitfully applied to out-of-equilibrium open quantum systems. Dissipative phase ...
IOP Publishing Ltd2021Prospects for B-c(+) -> tau(+)nu(tau) at FCC-ee
Clement Helsens, Donal Patrick Hill, Marie Hartmann
This paper presents the prospects for a precise measurement of the branching fraction of the leptonic B-c(+) -> tau(+)nu(tau) decay at the Future Circular Collider (FCC-ee) running at the Z-pole. A detailed description of the simulation and analysis framew ...
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