This Week in Physics - Taking Control of Fusion Reactor Instabilities

This Week in Physics Magazine — October 10, 2022 Viewpoint Taking Control of Fusion Reactor Instabilities Saskia Mordijck – October 10, 2022 A mechanism for preventing destructive instabilities in magnetically confined plasmas provides a new way for scientists to operate future nuclear-fusion reactors. Research News Webb Telescope Searches for Exoplanet Atmospheres October 4, 2022 The recent detection of ${\text{CO}}_2$ around a distant Jupiter-like planet spurs optimism for detecting atmospheric gases around Earth-like planets orbiting faraway stars. Focus Nobel Prize: Quantum Entanglement Unveiled October 4, 2022 The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics honors research on the foundations of quantum mechanics, which opened up the quantum information frontier. Research News A "Retro" Collider Design for a Higgs Factory October 6, 2022 The Cool Copper Collider is a new proposal for a Higgs-producing linear collider that would be more compact than other collider designs. synopsis An Exotic Fractional Quantum Hall State October 6, 2022 The even-denominator state appears in a 2D quasiparticle system, but researchers still can't explain its origin. synopsis A Quantum Entanglement Assembly Line October 5, 2022 A new experiment generates entanglement between many photons with a much higher probability than available methods, which could be a boon for quantum information applications. synopsis Longer-Than-Expected Twirls for Polariton Condensates October 4, 2022 A polariton condensate can spontaneously rotate, causing it to live significantly longer than individual polaritons would. 1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740 © 2022 American Physical Society | All rights reserved View Email Online You are receiving this message because you signed up to receive Physics Magazine email alerts or are a member of APS. Manage Email Preferences.