Physics

An international team has initiated the MACE experiment to detect a rare transformation of muonium into its antimatter counterpart, antimuonium. This process, if observed, would challenge the Standard Model of particle physics by violating lepton flavor conservation. The project aims to vastly improve upon previous searches conducted over two decades ago.

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Astronomers have identified what appears to be a massive cloud of dark matter roughly 3,000 light years from our solar system. Using pulsar observations, a team led by Sukanya Chakrabarti detected gravitational effects suggesting an object 60 million times the sun's mass. This could be the first such sub-halo found in the Milky Way.

A team of scientists has developed a new method to manipulate quantum materials using excitons, bypassing the need for intense lasers. This approach, led by the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology and Stanford University, achieves strong Floquet effects with far less energy, reducing the risk of damaging materials. The findings, published in Nature Physics, open pathways to advanced quantum devices.

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Researchers at the University of Stuttgart have shown that the Carnot principle, a cornerstone of thermodynamics, does not fully hold for correlated particles at the atomic level. Their work reveals that quantum engines can surpass the traditional efficiency limit by harnessing quantum correlations. This discovery could pave the way for highly efficient nanoscale motors.