For the first time, physicists present a unified theory explaining two characteristic features of frustrated magnets and why they're often seen together. When physicists send neutrons shooting through ...

Reversed field pinch (RFP) plasma physics is a distinctive branch of magnetic confinement research that explores self-organised plasma equilibria in which the toroidal magnetic field reverses in the ...

Albuquerque, N.M. _ Some physicists believe that the pulses of power formed in a technique called a Z-pinch may one day be a more efficient source of fusion power than magnetic confinement used by ...

In physics, the term "isotropy" means a system where the properties are the same in all directions. For fusion, neutron ...

The applications of wire-array “Z-pinches” are experiencing a renaissance. In recent years, researchers at Sandia in the US, Imperial College in the UK, and the Troitsk Institute in Russia, among ...

A new method for measuring the refractive index of micrometre-sized particles has been developed at Australia’s University of Queensland. The technique involves laser trapping in optical tweezers and ...

Charged particles trapped in Earth's magnetic field form a plasma, and tend to clump together when disturbed by the turbulent solar wind. This 'pinching' effect has been replicated in the laboratory ...