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Explained: The Discrete Fourier Transform

Explained: The Discrete Fourier Transform

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (34) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1811, Joseph Fourier, the 43-year-old prefect of the French district of Isčre, entered a competition in heat research sponsored by the French Academy of Sciences. The paper he submitted ...


Spin polarization achieved in room temperature silicon

Spin polarization achieved in room temperature silicon

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group in The Netherlands has achieved a first: injection of spin-polarized electrons in silicon at room temperature. This has previously been observed only at extremely low temperatures, ...


UCSB physicists move one step closer to quantum computing

UCSB physicists move one step closer to quantum computing

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have made an important advance in electrically controlling quantum states of electrons, a step that could help in the development of quantum computing. The work is published ...


Turning heat to electricity

Turning heat to electricity... efficiently

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (63) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- In everything from computer processor chips to car engines to electric powerplants, the need to get rid of excess heat creates a major source of inefficiency. But new research points the way ...


Scientists demonstrate 'universal' programmable quantum processor

Scientists demonstrate 'universal' programmable quantum processor

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (23) | comments 11

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated the first "universal" programmable quantum information processor able to run any program allowed by quantum mechanics -- th ...


Creating a six-qubit cluster state

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many scientists believe that quantum entanglement is required in order for effective quantum computing. Entanglement takes place when there is a connection that exists between two objects - even when they ...


Solving big problems

Solving big problems with new quantum algorithm

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (32) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recently published paper, Aram Harrow at the University of Bristol and colleagues from MIT in the United States have discovered a quantum algorithm that solves large problems much faster ...


Commercialization of new solar technology to boost solar efficiency

Technology / Energy

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 1

A pioneer in solar power in the 1990s before it became "sexy," University of Houston Professor Alex Freundlich recently entered into a collaborative research agreement with U.K.-based start-up QuantaSol for the development ...


More than powerful: German research computer QPACE is the most energy efficient in the world

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

At the 2009 Supercomputing Conference in Portland, Oregon, the high-performance computer QPACE (QCD Parallel Computing on the Cell) was recognized today as the most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world.


New funding will stimulate alternative energy research

Technology / Energy

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Initiatives to provide geothermal heating or power at the Pueblo of Jemez and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology campus are receiving Los Alamos National Laboratory assistance, thanks to recent American Reinvestment ...


Robots perform Shakespeare to learn how to save people

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Flying robot fairies are joining human actors in Texas A&M University?s production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, which runs through Sunday (Nov. 15) in the Rudder Forum.