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World’s first terahertz microscope shows long-hidden quantum jiggle in superconductors

MIT physicists have built a new microscope that can see quantum motion inside superconductors ...

Global first: Physicists use light to reveal quantum vibrations in a superconducting material

Now researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found a way to use terahertz light to watch a ...

Scientists use ultrafast laser to flip materials into a different electronic state

A burst of invisible light can do more than illuminate a surface. In a new study, Michigan State University researchers used ...

Terahertz microscope reveals the motion of superconducting electrons

You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light shining at it: Optical light illuminates a material's surface, ...
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Light breaks its own limit by 100,000× to image matter at the scale of atoms

For over a century, light has both helped and limited our view of the ...
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Scientists spot ultrafast ‘jiggles’ inside a superconducting fluid

The superconducting gap sets the basic energy scale that allows electricity to flow without resistance in a superconductor. In high‑temperature cuprates, the paired electrons (Cooper pairs) are mostly ...