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The statistical properties of the fluctuations of the entropy production rate are measured for a nanomechanical oscillator relaxing from an out-of-equilibrium steady state towards thermodynamic equilibrium.
The electron beam of a scanning transmission electron microscope can be used to trigger phase transitions in a monolayer of MoS2 and record the dynamics of the process with single-atom resolution.
Controlled optical manipulation of a single dielectric nanoparticle is achieved with a bowtie nanoantenna placed at the end of the probe of a near-field scanning microscope.
Quantum computers require error correction protocols to repair the state of the quantum bits. This has now been demonstrated using a 'majority voting' protocol among a cluster of three defect spins in diamond.
A design that allows electrical contacts to be created on semiconductor microphotonic structures brings quantum networks based on semiconductor single photon sources one step closer.
A commercially viable method for synthesizing magnetic nanoparticles could be developed by transferring clusters of genes from magnetic bacteria to foreign, more stable bacteria.