Matter & Energy | Science in Poland

Matter & Energy

Credit: Adobe Stock

Professor Krzysztof Sacha: Time crystals contribute to development of timetronics

A group of scientists from the United States and Professor Krzysztof Sacha from the Jagiellonian University have just presented groundbreaking achievements in the work on time crystals, as reported by Nature Communications. Time crystals are structures that have only been studied for 10 years, which, like space crystals, have atoms arranged in repeating, predictable patterns, but in time. They can probably be used to recreate various components, such as superconductors or transistors.

  • If a photon carries too little energy, it does not fit inside a proton (left). A photon with sufficiently high energy is so small that it flies into the interior of a proton, where it 'sees' part of the proton (right). Maximum entanglement then becomes visible between the 'seen' and 'unseen' areas. (Source: IFJ PAN)

    Interior of protons is maximally entangled

    Fragments of the interior of a proton have been shown by scientists from Mexico and Poland to exhibit maximum quantum entanglement. The discovery, already confronted with experimental data, allows us to suppose that in some respects the physics of the inside of a proton may have much in common not only with wellknown thermodynamic phenomena, but even with the physics of... black holes.

  • First author Mateusz Mazelan (left) and head of the Quantum Optical Devices lab Dr. Michał Pariak (right) with quantum processor and memory system for light. Credit: University of Warsaw

    Warsaw researchers find practical application for quantum processor

    Researchers from the University of Warsaw have built Poland's first quantum processor and used it in practice - in spectroscopy. They have shown how quantum information processing allows to more efficiently draw information about matter hidden in light, the Centre of New Technologies of the University of Warsaw reports.

  • Credit: Mirosław Kaźmierczak/UW

    Study the world 'through the looking-glass'? Warsaw scientist with ERC grant

    In a mirror image of our world, water contaminated with cyanobacteria could be non-toxic and cumin could smell like mint, says Dr. Piotr Garbacz from the University of Warsaw, whose research on chiral molecules will be financed with a grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The results may affect the classification of various chemical compounds and the assessment of their therapeutic effects.

  • Credit: Adobe Stock

    Nine Polish scientific institutions in Hyper-Kamiokande Consortium

    Nine Polish scientific institutions have joined forces in the Hyper-Kamiokande Consortium. A physical device that will study the history of evolution of the Universe will be built in Japan. The first data are expected in 2027.

  • Interior of the vacuum chamber for observations of the lead nuclei oscillations. A target made of lead 208Pb is placed in the middle between two cylindrical gamma radiation detectors. A proton beam from the PROTEUS cyclotron, coming from the lower left corner, hits the target. Scattered proton detectors are visible in the upper right corner. (Source: IFJ PAN)

    Extremely rare observation of 'tennis-like' vibrations of lead

    After hitting a racket or a wall, a tennis ball undergoes several rapid oscillations, flattening and elongating along the direction of motion. At the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, traces of similar oscillations occurring in 208Pb lead nuclei excited by collisions with protons have been registered by measuring gamma quanta. The only previous observation of a similar phenomenon is more than thirty years old.

  • Credit: Adobe Stock
    Space

    Polish researchers search for gravitationally lensed glow of gamma-ray bursts

    Gamma-ray bursts are among the most energetic processes in the Universe. For years they have been the focus of astrophysics. Scientists expect that lensing of gravitational signals from such events is possible. Researchers from the National Centre for Nuclear Research take part in the search for confirmation of these expectations.

  • Structure of paper composite of bacterial cellulose and pine fibres, scanning microscope image. Credit: Lodz University of Technology
    Technology

    Two birds with one stone: Polish researchers turn waste rubber into paper

    Biotechnologists and papermakers from the Lodz University of Technology have patented the method that 'eats' rubber and converts it into paper. This allows to turn used tyres into biodegradable packaging.

  • The Bs0 mesons oscillate between the material form composed of the strange quark s and the beautiful antiquark b bar, and the antimatterial form composed of the beautiful quark b and the strange antiquark s bar. (Source: IFJ PAN)

    From matter to antimatter, to and fro – trillions of times a second

    We think of matter and antimatter as being as opposite as fire and water. There are, however, particles that can behave as representatives once of the world of matter, once the world of antimatter. An international group of scientists working on experiments at the LHCb detector have reported their measurement of the extreme speed of oscillation of these sorts of particles between the two worlds.

  • Photo: press materials

    Einstein was RIGHT, say scientists

    Einstein correctly predicted changes in the shape of the orbits of objects orbiting the Earth, confirm by the observations of the trajectories of the navigation satellites carried out by scientists from the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences and the European Space Agency (ESA).

Most Popular

Recommended

Cedit: Adobe Stock

Multifractal brain and early stages of multiple sclerosis

Electrical brain signals in patients with multiple sclerosis, a disease mainly associated with the slowing-down of information processing and a lack of motor coordination, show traces of multifractality, scientists from four Polish research institutions have found.