News tagged with quantum chaos

Scientists discover quantum fingerprints of chaos

Chaotic behavior is the rule, not the exception, in the world we experience through our senses, the world governed by the laws of classical physics.

Physics / Quantum Physics

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'Amplified' nanotubes may power the future

Rice University scientists have achieved a pivotal breakthrough in the development of a cable that will make an efficient electric grid of the future possible.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Pure nanotube-type growth edges toward the possible

New research at Rice University could ultimately show scientists the way to make batches of nanotubes of a single type.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Gravity eases its pull

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since Galileo first dropped his balls off the top of the Tower of Pisa in the late 16th century, gravity has caused a major headache for mathematicians and physicists down the ages.

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 04, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (52) | comments 51 | with audio podcast

Short-range scattering in quantum dots

Chinese researchers, reporting in the Journal of Applied Physics, published by the American Institute of Physics, have described a new breakthrough in understanding the way electrons travel around quantum dots. This might ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 20, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Predictions of upcoming winners for Nobel Prize in physics

The announcement of the winners of the next Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday morning will bring to an end the very private deliberations within the Swedish Academy, which selects the winner. It will also ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 01, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Surprising nucleon behavior

Data from DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory on neutron interactions with isotopes of platinum contradict a basic assumption underpinning random matrix theory, nuclear physics models and quantum chaos.

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 2

New physics theory prize names first recipient

Pioneering theorist and Nobel laureate Philip W. Anderson has been named the first recipient of the Richard E. Prange Prize and Lectureship in Condensed Matter Theory and Related Areas. Anderson will receive a $10,000 honorarium ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers simplify fabrication of nano storage, chip-design tools

Advances by the Rice University lab of James Tour have brought graphite's potential as a mass data storage medium a step closer to reality and created the potential for reprogrammable gate arrays that could ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Dream of quantum computing closer to reality as mathematicians chase key breakthrough

The ability to exploit the extraordinary properties of quantum mechanics in novel applications, such as a new generation of super-fast computers, has come closer following recent progress with some of the remaining underlying ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 22, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Making waves: Mathematicians crack quantum chaos conjecture

The American Institute of Mathematics announces that Soundararajan and Roman Holowinsky have proven a significant version of the quantum unique ergodicity conjecture. Their work, based in the pure mathematics area of number ...

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