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New paper offers insights into 'blinking' phenomena

New paper offers insights into 'blinking' phenomena

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 01, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (26) | comments 0

A new paper by a team of researchers led by University of Notre Dame physicist Bolizsár Jankó provides an overview of research into one of the few remaining unsolved problems of quantum mechanics.





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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.


High-Flying Electrons May Provide New Test of Quantum Theory

High-Flying Electrons May Provide New Test of Quantum Theory

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 29, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (41) | comments 2

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Max Planck Institute for Physics in Germany believe they can achieve a significant increase in the accuracy of one of the fundamental constants ...


Experiments at UCSB push quantum mechanics to higher levels

Pushing quantum mechanics to higher levels

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | 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 ...


Using Current Technology to Prepare for Quantum Computing

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 14, 2006 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (56) | comments 0

“If we use the environment in the process,” explains Almut Beige, “we don’t need to control everything.” Dr. Beige and two students working with her at Imperial College London, Jeremy Metz and Michael Trupke, have devised ...


Mechanics: Ordinary meets quantum

New method to detect quantum mechanical effects in ordinary objects

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 1

At the quantum level, the atoms that make up matter and the photons that make up light behave in a number of seemingly bizarre ways. Particles can exist in "superposition," in more than one state at the same ...


Physicists use Bose-Einstein condensates to enhance factoring algorithm

Physicists use Bose-Einstein condensates to enhance factoring algorithm

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 10, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (54) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- Theoretically, quantum computing has the potential to work more efficiently and accurately than classical computing for certain processes, such as factoring. But quantum methods are experimentally ...


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.


Coupling of Single Quantum Dots to Smooth Metal Films

Coupling of Single Quantum Dots to Smooth Metal Films

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory's CNM Nanophotonics Group have measured how light emission from individual colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals, or quantum dots, is modified when in proximity to ...


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.


Computing in the quantum dimension

Computing in the quantum dimension

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 12, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 2

A huge consortium of European researchers is solving some of the fundamental obstacles blocking real quantum computing applications in the short term. At the same time, it is helping to pave the way to a quantum ...



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