Almost anytime physicists announce that they’ve discovered a new particle, whether it’s the Higgs boson or the recently bagged double-charm tetraquark, what they’ve actually spotted is a small bump ...

If she hits just the right pitch, a singer can shatter a wine glass. The reason is resonance. While the glass may vibrate slightly in response to most acoustic tones, a pitch that resonates with the ...

A concept from the field of quantum mechanics, spin is a property of particles that has no direct counterpart in everyday ...

Figure 1: A silicon nanowire is used as an ultrasensitive cantilever in order to detect nuclear spins via magnetic resonance. A thin layer of polystyrene, containing weakly magnetic hydrogen nuclei, ...

Resonance fluorescence is an iconic example of quantum optics in open systems—those that interact with the environment. It describes the scattering of light from a two-state system, such as an atom, ...

A radio-frequency field can be resonant with nuclear spins in a sample even if its frequency does not match a spectroscopic transition—a result that could enable new forms of NMR spectroscopy. Figure ...