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IMAGE: A scattering-invariant mode of light is generated by sending a laser beam onto a judiciously configured spatial light modulator (see quadratic pixel array on the left). This modulated beam then. view more
Credit: Allard Mosk/Matthias Kühmayer
Why is sugar not transparent? Because light that penetrates a piece of sugar is scattered, altered and deflected in a highly complicated way. However, as a research team from TU Wien (Vienna) and Utrecht University (Netherlands) has now been able to show, there is a class of very special light waves for which this does not apply: for any specific disordered medium such as the sugar cube you may just have put in your coffee tailor-made light beams can be constructed that are practically not changed by this medium, but only attenuated. The light beam penetrates the medium, and a light pattern arrives on the other side that has the same shape as if the medium were not there at all.
Credit: Skoltech
Scientists from Russia and Germany studied the molecular composition of carbonaceous chondrites - the insoluble organic matter of the Murchison and Allende meteorites - in an attempt to identify their origin. Ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry revealed a wide diversity of chemical compositions and unexpected similarities between meteorites from different groups. The research was published in the
Scientific Reports.
Carbonaceous chondrites contain nearly the entire spectrum of organic molecules encountered on Earth, including nucleic acids which might have played a pivotal role in the origin of life. Since the majority of modern meteorites are of nearly the same age as the Earth, their composition should be similar to that of meteorites that bombarded the Earth s surface in ancient times. Just like comets, they can be considered a source of organic compounds which most likely formed the core of the Earth s biosphere.
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IMAGE: Realization of far-field, label-free super-resolution imaging based on evanescent waves excited by nonlinear four-wave mixing. view more
Credit: Zhou et al., doi 10.1117/1.AP.3.2.025001
The diffraction limit, also known as Abbe diffraction limit in optics, poses a great challenge in many systems that involve wave dynamics, such as imaging, astronomy, and photolithography. For example, the best optical microscope only possesses resolution around 200 nm, but the physical size of the photolithography process with an excimer laser is around tens of nanometers. Meanwhile, physical sizes in current research and applications in biology and the semiconductor industry have scaled down to several nanometers, which is far beyond the ability of optical waves. According to the Abbe theory, subwavelength features are usually associated with evanescent waves, which decay exponentially with distance from the target. In response to this problem, researchers have develope
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IMAGE: (a-b) Multimode interaction in a single optomechanical resonator creates an extensible synthetic gauge field; (c-e) Responses of optical photons and phonons in the cavity under different synthetic magnetic field intensities.. view more
Credit: CHEN Yuan et al.
The research team led by Prof. GUO Guangcan and Dr. DONG Chunhua from the University of Science and Technology of China realized synthetic gauge fields in a single optomechanical resonator by controlling geometric phase with the multimode interaction in the micro-resonator.
By engineering a Hamiltonian, uncharged particles or bosonic excitations can acquire a path-dependent phase which realizes a synthetic magnetic field. Such synthetic gauge field can improve the precision of quantum many-body simulation and control over bosons.