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A laser to make light of many shapes
Lasers can produce a slender beam of light of just one wavelength. For this simple feature, they are everywhere in modern technology, from the internet to medical devices and even in entertainment as holograms. However, traditional lasers have some limitations. … Continue reading →
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Tagged gain medium, George Series, laser, laser wavefront, meta-atoms, metalaser, metasurface, Michael Berry, S Pancharatnam
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A fountainhead of intrigue
Recently, a Chinese-American mathematician named Yitang Zhang claimed to have resolved the Landau-Siegel zeroes conjecture, which is related to the Riemann hypothesis. (Specifically, disproving the conjecture brings us a small stop closer to proving the Riemann hypothesis.) His paper hasn’t … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barry Cipra, Bernhard Riemann, Brian Hayes, Michael Berry, nontrivial zeroes, random Hermitian matrix, Riemann hypothesis, Riemann zeta function, S Pancharatnam
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