Best of Last Week - Zero friction quantum engine, twisted radio beams and Ebola outbreak update
Monday, September 22, 2014 - 08:00
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —It was another interesting week as a team of physicists from the U.S., Italy and the U.K. designed a zero-friction quantum engine, showing an example of a quantum engine that if built would be "super-adiabatic"—an engine that can be reversed without energy dissipation. Meanwhile another team of physicists working in Canada found that neutrino trident production may offer a powerful probe of new physics—part of an effort to figure out if the "Z" boson, aka the "dark photon" actually exists. If so, it would mean creating an extension to the Standard Model.