This approach holds potential for application in different areas, including how clouds become electrified and what sparks lightning. Read more here: ista.ac.at/en/news/trap...

In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, Andrea Stöllner, Isaac Lenton, Scott Waitukaitis, and other colleagues have developed a way to catch, hold, and electrically charge a single particle using two laser beams.

Andrea Stöllner, PhD student in the Waitukaitis and Muller groups, focuses on ice crystals within clouds. The scientist uses model aerosols—tiny, transparent silica particles—to explore how these ice crystals accumulate and interact with electrical charge.

Link to the paper in @commsearth.nature.com:
doi.org/10.1038/s432...

With Álvaro Ayala, Eduardo Muñoz-Castro, @wslresearch.bsky.social, @slfdavos.bsky.social

#megadrought #glacier #glacierhealth #Chile #Andes #drought #waterresources #climatechange #globalwarming #climate

Many researchers are increasingly warning that megadroughts have become the new normal. The authors underline the need for coordinated global climate policies to develop effective water management strategies worldwide.

It turns out that what will be left of the region’s 100 largest glaciers will only be able to contribute half of today’s runoff meltwater during the dry summer months.

In a new study published in @commsearth.nature.com, Pellicciotti and an international team of researchers modeled a ‘Chile 2.0’ megadrought at the end of the century.

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Link to the paper in @prxquantum.bsky.social (@apsphysics.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1103/tldp...

#QuantumScars #QuantumManyBodyScars #QuantumTheory #QuantumScience #ClassicalPhysics #PeriodicOrbits #Periodicity #QuantumYear #IYQ2025 #QuantumYear2025

Bridging classical physics and quantum theory, this method could also shed light on other hidden quantum phenomena.

With Marko Ljubotina and Gökhan Yalnız.

The Serbyn group recently demonstrated that quantum many-body scars are more common than anticipated. Now, ISTA PhD student Elena Petrova has developed an algorithm to find them using classical equations of motion.

One phenomenon that particularly interests Maksym Serbyn’s group is quantum many-body scars. They embody a curious concept whereby interacting particles retain properties that do not ‘decay’ or get ‘dispersed’ over time.

Link to the paper in Magnetic Resonance: doi.org/10.5194/mr-2...

#carbonfootprint #sustainability #sustainableresearch #conferencetravel #environment #greenhousegases #nmr #nuclearmagneticresonance

The authors hope that their results will help researchers make informed, climate-conscious decisions about conference travel in various fields.

The results of an ISTA study on the carbon footprint of travel to NMR conferences are now published in Magnetic Resonance, the journal of @group-ampere.bsky.social.

With ISTA Sustainability Manager Jeroen Dobbelaere, Professor Georgios Katsaros, and ISTA graduate students.