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Physicists Demonstrate Quantum Memory with Matter Qubits

Physicists Demonstrate Quantum Memory with Matter Qubits

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (21) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, scientists have successfully operated a quantum gate between two remote particles of matter, marking an important step toward the development of a quantum computer. In ...





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Twinkling Nanostars Improve Optical Imaging of Tumors

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Purdue University have created magnetically responsive gold nanostars that may offer a new approach to biomedical imaging. The nanostars gyrate when exposed to a rotating magnetic field and ...


Particles are back in the LHC

Particles are back in the LHC

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (30) | comments 2

During the last weekend (23-25 October) particles have once again entered the LHC after the one-year break that followed the incident of September 2008.


Nonlocality of a Single Particle Demonstrated Without Objections

Nonlocality of a Single Particle Demonstrated Without Objections

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 09, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (151) | comments 33

Usually when physicists talk about nonlocality in quantum mechanics, they’re referring to the fact that two particles can have immediate effects on each other, even when separated by large distances. Einstein ...


Physicists Build a Quantum Gambling Machine

Physicists Build a Quantum Gambling Machine

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 30, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (34) | comments 3

Quantum gambling machines may not be popping up at futuristic casinos any time soon, but the devices could have other uses – such as enabling physicists to study game theory in situations where cheating is ...


Twinkling nanostars cast new light into biomedical imaging

Twinkling nanostars cast new light into biomedical imaging

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers have created magnetically responsive gold nanostars that may offer a new approach to biomedical imaging.


Building a more versatile laser

Building a more versatile laser

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the drawbacks associated with using semiconductor lasers is that many of them can only produce a beam of a single wavelength, and can only send that beam in one direction at a time. ...


Adding proton therapy 'boost' to X-ray radiation therapy reduces prostate cancer recurrences

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Men who receive a "boost" of proton therapy after receiving a standard course of X-ray radiation therapy have fewer recurrences of their prostate cancer compared to men who did not receive the extra dose of proton radiation, ...


Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

LHC to run at 3.5 TeV for early part of 2009-2010 run rising later

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 4

CERN 's Large Hadron Collider will initially run at an energy of 3.5 TeV per beam when it starts up in November this year. This news comes after all tests on the machine's high-current electrical connections ...


HoloTV Images Jump off the Screen, into Tomorrow's Homes

HoloTV Images Jump off the Screen, into Tomorrow's Homes (w/Video)

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (19) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- Unlike today’s biggest and most realistic LCD and plasma TVs, 3D TV screens can project images that seem to float in mid-air beyond the screen. That means, for instance, that viewers could ...


Spallation Neutron Source sees first target replacement

Spallation Neutron Source sees first target replacement

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Having outlasted all expectations of its service life, the original mercury target of the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), the Department of Energy Office of Science's record-setting neutron science facility ...



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