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Highlight: Exploiting strain fields

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic devices of the future may benefit from a fundamental discovery that allows researchers to customize the electronic properties of complex materials such as single-crystal thin-film structures.


Post-Quantum Correlations: Exploring the Limits of Quantum Nonlocality

Post-Quantum Correlations: Exploring the Limits of Quantum Nonlocality

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (22) | comments 20 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to nonlocal correlations, some correlations are more nonlocal than others. As the subject of study for several decades, nonlocal correlations (for example, quantum entanglement) ...


Scientists Model Words as Entangled Quantum States in our Minds

Scientists Model Words as Entangled Quantum States in our Minds

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (37) | comments 21 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- When you hear the word “planet,” do you automatically think of the word’s literal definition, or of other words, such as “Earth,” “space,” “Mars,” etc.? Especially when used in sentences, ...


Quantum technologies move a step closer with the demonstration of an 'entanglement' filter

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists and engineers has demonstrated an optical device that filters two particles of light (or photons) based on the correlations between their polarisation that are only allowed in the seemingly ...


Entanglement without Classical Correlations

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 27, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (60) | comments 21 feature

Quantum mechanics is full of counterintuitive concepts. The idea of entanglement – when two or more particles instantaneously exhibit dependent characteristics when measured, no matter how far apart they are – is one of them. ...