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Physicists Simulate Strongly Correlated Fermions

Combining known factors in a new way, theoretical physicists Boris Svistunov and Nikolai Prokof’ev at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with three alumni of their group, have solved an intractable 50-year-old problem: How to simulate strongly interacting quantum systems to allow accurate predictions of their properties.

18 Mar 2012

Quantum Criticality Provides Insights into Cosmology

University of Chicago physicists have experimentally demonstrated for the first time that atoms chilled to temperatures near absolute zero may behave like seemingly unrelated natural systems of vastly different scales

18 Mar 2012

Lancaster Quantum Technology Centre to Use Etch Tools from Oxford Instruments

Lancaster University based in the UK is populating part of its new world-class Lancaster Quantum Technology Centre (LQTC) with Oxford Instruments’ plasma systems as part of its strategy for the development of physical sciences.

21 Feb 2012

Work on Nano Diamonds Recognised with Research Award

Macquarie University presented its annual Research Awards at a special awards ceremony held on campus on Wednesday evening. Amongst the award winners was Dr James Rabeau whose team won an award for research into nano diamonds.

13 Oct 2011

Kiel Researchers Discover Exotic Quantum Crystal

Nature knows two opposite types of solids: one that emerges upon compression from a liquid and a second that appears if the pressure on a liquid is reduced. Now it has been shown that there exists yet a third form of matter that inherits both of these properties.

10 Aug 2011

Researchers Gain an Understanding of Quantum Ferromagnetism Using an Atom-by-Atom Approach

Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) researchers led by Christopher Monroe, with theoreticians from University of Michigan, University of Auckland, and Georgetown University have observed a quantum ferromagnet using a nine ion crystal, in an atom-by-atom approach to quantum simulations of magnetism.

7 Jul 2011

Quantum-Entangled Images

Using a convenient and flexible method for creating twin light beams, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland (UM) have produced “quantum images,” pairs of information-rich visual patterns whose features are “entangled,” or inextricably linked by the laws of quantum physics.

28 Jun 2011