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Podcast: Reproducing a Black Hole in the Laboratory, and other Quantum Theories

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In a recent study, Professor of Physics and Astronomy Miles Blencowe and his colleagues proposed a new way of creating a reproduction black hole in the laboratory.


Quantum ghosts are helpful

Quantum ghosts are helpful

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (19) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- The idea that far distant particles can somehow 'talk' to each other worried Einstein so much that he called it 'spooky action at a distance'.


Researchers Design Triple Quantum Dot for Quantum Information Applications

Researchers Design Triple Quantum Dot for Quantum Information Applications

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- While quantum dots have existed since the 1980s, only in the past decade have physicists successfully created lateral few-electron single quantum dots. These quantum dots enable physicists ...


Physicists make discovery in quantum mechanics

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (27) | comments 49

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have made an important advance in quantum mechanics using a superconducting electrical circuit. The finding is reported in this week's issue of the journal Nature.


Straightening messy correlations with a quantum comb

Straightening messy correlations with a quantum comb

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Quantum computing promises ultra-fast communication, computation and more powerful ways to encrypt sensitive information. But trying to use quantum states as carriers of information is an extremely delicate ...


Experiments at UCSB push quantum mechanics to higher levels

Pushing quantum mechanics to higher levels

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have devised a new type of superconducting circuit that behaves quantum mechanically -- but has up to five levels of energy instead of the usual two. The findings are published ...


Quantum computers will require complex software to manage errors

Quantum computers will require complex software to manage errors

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (8) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Highlighting another challenge to the development of quantum computers, theorists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have shown* that a type of software operation, proposed ...


Scientists create first electronic quantum processor

Scientists create first electronic quantum processor

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (59) | comments 46

A team led by Yale University researchers has created the first rudimentary solid-state quantum processor, taking another step toward the ultimate dream of building a quantum computer.


Too much entanglement can render quantum computers useless

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 25, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (20) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- "For certain tasks, quantum computers are more powerful than their classical counterparts. The task to be performed is the same for quantum or classical systems. However, the former ones can do it in a more ...


Researchers putting a freeze on oscillator vibrations

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 3

University of Oregon physicists have successfully landed a one-two punch on a tiny glass sphere, refrigerating it in liquid helium and then dosing its perimeter with a laser beam, to bring its naturally occurring mechanical ...


Controllable double quantum dots and Klein tunneling in nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from the Kavli Institute of NanoScience in Delft are the first to have successfully captured a single electron in a highly tunable carbon nanotube double quantum dot. This was made possible by a new approach for ...


Scientists demonstrate all-fiber quantum logic

Scientists demonstrate all-fiber quantum logic

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 3

A team of physicists and engineers have demonstrated all-fibre quantum logic, where single photons are generated and used to perform the controlled-NOT quantum logic gate in optical fibres with high fidelity.


Researchers find quantum errors do compute

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from The University of Queensland have found the emerging field of quantum computing may be more stable than previously thought.


Evidence of macroscopic quantum tunneling detected in nanowires

Evidence of macroscopic quantum tunneling detected in nanowires

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 6

A team of researchers at the University of Illinois has demonstrated that, counter to classical Newtonian mechanics, an entire collection of superconducting electrons in an ultrathin superconducting wire is ...


Vanquishing infinity

Vanquishing infinity: Old methods lead to a new approach to finding a quantum theory of gravity

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 2

Quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of general relativity are both extremely accurate theories of how the universe works, but all attempts to combine the two into a unified theory have ended in failure. ...