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Researchers Predict Existence of New Particle in Metallic Materials

An international team of researchers has predicted the existence of a new type of particle called the type-II Weyl fermion in metallic materials. When subjected to a magnetic field, the materials containing the particle act as insulators for current applied in some directions and as conductors for current applied in other directions. This behavior suggests a range of potential applications, from low-energy devices to efficient transistors.

27 Nov 2015

CERN’s LHC Accelerator Achieves Highest-Energy Collisions of Heavy Atomic Nuclei

The world's most powerful accelerator, the 27 km long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) operating at CERN in Geneva established collisions between lead nuclei, this morning, at the highest energies ever. The LHC has been colliding protons at record high energy since the summer, but now the time has now come to collide large nuclei (nuclei of lead, Pb, consist of 208 neutrons and protons). The experiments aim at understanding and studying the properties of strongly interacting systems at high densities and thus the state of matter of the Universe shortly after the Big Bang.

27 Nov 2015

Dusty Comet Fragments Most Likely Explanation for Mysterious Dimming of KIC 8462852 Star

Was it a catastrophic collision in the star's asteroid belt? A giant impact that disrupted a nearby planet? A dusty cloud of rock and debris? A family of comets breaking apart? Or was it alien megastructures built to harvest the star's energy?

27 Nov 2015

Researchers Successfully ‘Pluck’ a Single Photon out of a Pulse of Light

At the Weizmann Institute of Science, researchers have managed to “pluck” a single photon – one particle of light – out of a pulse of light. The findings of this research, which appeared this week in Nature Photonics, bear both fundamental and practical significance: Light is the workhorse of today’s communication systems, and single photons are likely to be the backbone of future quantum communication systems. In addition, say the scientists, the apparatus they have devised will spur further research into the fundamental particle nature of light.

26 Nov 2015

York U Astrophysics Researcher Wins Award for Discovery of Outer-Lying Groupings of Galaxies

An up-and-coming York University astrophysics researcher will receive an award today in Ottawa for furthering the understanding the universe, including the discovery of outer-lying groupings of galaxies similar to ours and the reason why they spin.

26 Nov 2015

Researchers Advance Sending of ‘Entangled’ Particles over Long Distances

Researchers from Stanford have advanced a long-standing problem in quantum physics – how to send "entangled" particles over long distances.

26 Nov 2015

Scientists Link Superconducting Carrier Density with Quantum Properties of a Substance

Physicists Mikhail Feigel’man (the head of MIPT’s theoretical nanophysics laboratory) and Lev Ioffe have explained the unusual effect in a number of promising superconductor materials. Using a theory they developed previously, the scientists have linked superconducting carrier density with the quantum properties of a substance.

26 Nov 2015

Mars' Largest Moon Slowly Falling Toward the Planet

Mars' largest moon, Phobos, is slowly falling toward the planet, but rather than smash into the surface, it likely will be shredded and the pieces strewn about the planet in a ring like the rings encircling Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune.

26 Nov 2015

Astronomers Identify Hottest White Dwarf and Intergalactic Gas Entering the Milky Way

Astronomers in Tübingen and Potsdam identify dying star, intergalactic gas entering Milky Way

26 Nov 2015

Long Filaments of Hairy Dark Matter may Exist on Earth

The solar system might be a lot hairier than we thought. A new study publishing this week in the Astrophysical Journal by Gary Prézeau of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, proposes the existence of long filaments of dark matter, or "hairs."

25 Nov 2015

Quantum Physics News

Researchers Predict Existence of New Particle in Metallic Materials

CERN’s LHC Accelerator Achieves Highest-Energy Collisions of Heavy Atomic Nuclei

Dusty Comet Fragments Most Likely Explanation for Mysterious Dimming of KIC 8462852 Star

Researchers Successfully ‘Pluck’ a Single Photon out of a Pulse of Light

York U Astrophysics Researcher Wins Award for Discovery of Outer-Lying Groupings of Galaxies

Researchers Advance Sending of ‘Entangled’ Particles over Long Distances

Scientists Link Superconducting Carrier Density with Quantum Properties of a Substance

Mars' Largest Moon Slowly Falling Toward the Planet

Astronomers Identify Hottest White Dwarf and Intergalactic Gas Entering the Milky Way

Long Filaments of Hairy Dark Matter may Exist on Earth

Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

LabOne Q: An Intuitive Software Framework for Scalable Quantum Computing

ORCA-Quest qCMOS Camera by Hamamatsu

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Repeat-Until-Success Algorithm for Quantum Gate Decomposition

Researchers Exploit the Color Centers in Diamond to Enhance Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Processes for NMR Applications

Application of Electro-Optic Phase Modulator in Pound-Drever Hall Technique for Laser Frequency Stabilization

Quantum Physics News

Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

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2Quantum Observer Paradox: Extending Measurement Disturbance

3Quantum Linear Solvers for Redundant Baseline Calibration

4Researchers Achieve Major Advancement in Quantum Technology

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