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  • Nonreciprocal light speed control achieved using cavity magnonics deviceThis link opens in a new window The reliable manipulation of the speed at which light travels through objects could have valuable implications for the development of various advanced technologies, including high-speed communication systems and quantum information processing devices. Conventional methods for manipulating the speed of light, such as techniques leveraging so-called electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) effects, work by utilizing quantum interference effects in a medium, which can make it transparent to light beams and slow the speed of light through it. Jun 8, 2025
  • Polymer waveguides show promise for reliable, high-capacity optical communicationThis link opens in a new window Co-packaged optics (CPO) technology can integrate photonic integrated circuits (PICs) with electronic integrated circuits (EICs) like CPUs and GPUs on a single platform. This advanced technology has immense potential to improve data transmission efficiency within data centers and high-performance computing environments. CPO systems require a laser source for operation, which can be either integrated directly into the silicon photonic chips (integrated laser sources) or provided externally. Jun 6, 2025
  • Scientists discover extremely neutron-deficient isotope protactinium-210This link opens in a new window Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators have synthesized a new isotope—protactinium-210—for the first time. It is the most neutron-deficient isotope of protactinium synthesized to date. Their findings are published in Nature Communications. Jun 6, 2025
  • New measurement of the mass of the Z boson from the Large Hadron ColliderThis link opens in a new window The LHCb experiment has taken a leap in precision physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In a new paper submitted to Physical Review Letters and currently available on the arXiv preprint server, the LHCb collaboration reports the first dedicated measurement of the Z boson mass at the LHC, using data from high-energy collisions between protons recorded in 2016 during the collider's second run. Jun 6, 2025
  • Probing hyperon potential to resolve a longstanding puzzle in neutron starsThis link opens in a new window A research team led by Prof. Yong Gaochan from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a novel experimental method to probe the hyperon potential, offering new insights into resolving the longstanding "hyperon puzzle" in neutron stars. These findings were published in Physics Letters B and Physical Review C. Jun 6, 2025
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