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Jan 15, 2025 | independent.com | Seth Steiner |Los Alamos

The Pyrocene Era By Seth Steiner, Los Alamos Wed Jan 15, 2025 | 4:02pm Add to Favorites We live in the “Pyrocene” era: the age of fire. Supercharged Santa Ana winds, record high temperatures and drought have fueled the current wildfire crisis. There is death in Los Angeles County, tens of thousands have been displaced and countless homes are reduced to ashes. In the far north of our state, massive fires have torn through rainforests where Climate Change burned off the region’s protective...

Dec 9, 2024 | pubs.aip.org | Los Alamos |Apu Kowsar |Yu. N. Melikova

1. J. A. Zukas, W. Walters, and W. P. Walters, Explosive effects and applications (Springer Science & Business Media, 2002). 2. P. W. Cooper, Explosives engineeringJohn Wiley & Sons, 2018). 3. W. C. Davis, “High explosives: The interaction of chemistry and mechanics,” Los Alamos Science 2, 48–75 (1981). 4. J. B. Bdzil, T. Aslam, R. Henninger, and J. Quirk, “High-explosives performance,” Los Alamos Science 28, 96 (2003). 5. R. B. Jadrich, C. Ticknor, and J. A.

Dec 9, 2024 | pubs.aip.org | Los Alamos |L. Lee |Apu Kowsar |Yu. N. Melikova

Topics Speed of sound, Equations of state, Heterodyne laser interferometry 1. S. A. Sheffield, R. L. Gustavsen, and R. R. Alcon. J. Applied Physics505:1043–1048, (2000). 2. J. W. Forbes. Shock Wave Compression of Condensed Matter A PrimerSpringer, Berlin, 1st edition, 2012, p. 31. 3. L. M. Barker and R. E. Hollenbach. J. Applied Physics41:4208, (1970). 4. A. A. Bakanova, V. A. Bugaeva, I. P. Dudoladov, and R. F. Trunin. Fizika Zemli6:58, (1995). 5. 6. 7th Symposium on Detonation.

Dec 9, 2024 | pubs.aip.org | Los Alamos |Apu Kowsar |Yu. N. Melikova

Topics Equations of state, Monte Carlo methods, Transition metals 1. J. Arblaster, “Densities of osmium and iridium: Recalculations based upon a review of the latest crystallographic data,” Platinum Metals Review 33, 14–16 (1989). 2. P. Kalita, (2023), unpublished. 3. C. Seagle, B. Reinhart, S. Alexander, J. Brown, and J.-P. Davis, “Shock compression of iridium,” Tech. Rep. SAND2019-6863CSandia National Laboratories, 2019). 4. R. P. Feynman, N. Metropolis, and E.

Dec 6, 2024 | link.aps.org | Los Alamos |Y.-S. Choi |H.-T. Chen

Quantum sensing promises to revolutionize sensing applications by employing quantum states of light or matter as sensing probes. Photons are the clear choice as probes for remote sensing because they can travel to and interact with a distant target. Existing schemes, currently limited to tabletop experiments, require a quantum memory to store a single photon of an initially entangled pair until its twin reflects off a target and returns.