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Fuji Pigment Develops Large-Scale Production Process for Silicon Quantum Dots

Quantum dots are extremely tiny man-made nanoparticles typically between 10 to 10000 atoms (1 to 10 nanometers) in diameter, which is smaller than 1/10000 th the width of a human hair. However, the effects of this extreme small size cannot be ignored.

26 May 2017

Scientists Develop Magnetic Switch that Controls Mysterious Quantum Behavior

When a ballerina pirouettes, twirling a full revolution, she looks just as she did when she started. But for electrons and other subatomic particles, which follow the rules of quantum theory, that’s not necessarily so. When an electron moves around a closed path, ending up where it began, its physical state may or may not be the same as when it left.

26 May 2017

OIST Researchers Find a Way to Create Quantum Necklace-Like Structures in Superfluids

The quantum world is both elegant and mysterious. It is a sphere of existence where the laws of physics experienced in everyday life are broken—particles can exist in two places at once, they can react to each other over vast distances, and they themselves seem confused over whether they are particles or waves.

26 May 2017

Massive Dying Star Reborn as Black Hole

For the first time in history, astronomers have been able to watch as a dying star was reborn as a black hole.

26 May 2017

Researchers Create Biggest Simulations to Uncover Structure and History of the Galaxy

Thousands of processors, terabytes of data, and months of computing time have helped a group of researchers in Germany create some of the largest and highest resolution simulations ever made of galaxies like our Milky Way.

25 May 2017

New Kind of Galaxy Creates Stars Hundred Times Faster than Milky Way

A team of astronomers including Carnegie's Eduardo Bañados and led by Roberto Decarli of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy has discovered a new kind of galaxy which, although extremely old--formed less than a billion years after the Big Bang--creates stars more than a hundred times faster than our own Milky Way.

25 May 2017

Researchers Demonstrate First Ever Quantized Magneto-Electric Effect in Topological Insulators

A light wave sent through empty space always oscillates in the same direction. However, certain materials can be used to rotate the direction in which the light is oscillating when placed in a magnetic field. This is known as a 'magneto-optical' effect.

25 May 2017

Quantum Materials Awarded Patent for Continuous Synthesis of High Quality Nanoparticles

Quantum Materials Corp today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted Quantum Materials Corp Patent # 9577149 for the continuous synthesis of high quantum yield InP/ZnS nanocrystals.

25 May 2017

Astronomers Discover New Object Near a Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole

Pointing the Very Large Array at a famous galaxy for the first time in two decades, a team of astronomers got a big surprise, finding that a bright new object had appeared near the galaxy's core.

24 May 2017

CERN Scientists Set Strict Limits Regarding Axions-Photons Interaction

Axions are particles whose hypothetical existence was introduced in 1977 by Roberto Peccei and Helen Quinn. The particles have been the talk of the town lately because their existence could largely explain so-called dark matter.

24 May 2017

Study Shows Magnetic Order can be Created in a Two-Dimensional Chessboard Lattice

A research goal, for a short period, focused on attaining magnetic order in low-dimensional systems comprising of one or two dimensions. In a recent study featured in the journal Nature Communications, Uppsala researchers demonstrate that magnetic order can be produced in a two-dimensional chessboard lattice made up of organometallic molecules that are only one atomic layer in thickness.

23 May 2017

Researchers Create Wafer-Thin Magnetic Materials for Use in Future Quantum Technologies

Two-dimensional (2D) magnetic structures are believed to be a promising material for new types of data storage, as the magnetic properties of individual molecular building blocks can be examined and altered.

23 May 2017

Lithium Deposited on Tokamaks Walls Affect the Performance of Lithium Tokamak Experiment

A team of physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have discovered that lithium compounds enhance plasma performance in fusion devices in the same manner as that performed by pure lithium.

22 May 2017

Researchers Study Self-Synchronization of Quantum Objects

Fascinating enough, apparently independent pendulum clocks can function together and tick in synchrony at the same time. Occurring often in nature as well as engineering, the “self-organized synchronization” phenomenon is one of the important research areas of Marc Timme and his colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization.

22 May 2017

Researchers Explore Ways of Developing Quantum Bits by Using Graphene

A number of projects are exploring ways to develop quantum bits or qubits as a result of the ongoing race to manufacture a quantum computer. Qubits are stable, that is, they are not greatly affected by environmental changes. This usually needs highly nonlinear, non-dissipative elements that have the potential to function at extremely low temperatures.

19 May 2017

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Fuji Pigment Develops Large-Scale Production Process for Silicon Quantum Dots

Scientists Develop Magnetic Switch that Controls Mysterious Quantum Behavior

OIST Researchers Find a Way to Create Quantum Necklace-Like Structures in Superfluids

Massive Dying Star Reborn as Black Hole

Researchers Create Biggest Simulations to Uncover Structure and History of the Galaxy

New Kind of Galaxy Creates Stars Hundred Times Faster than Milky Way

Researchers Demonstrate First Ever Quantized Magneto-Electric Effect in Topological Insulators

Quantum Materials Awarded Patent for Continuous Synthesis of High Quality Nanoparticles

Astronomers Discover New Object Near a Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole

CERN Scientists Set Strict Limits Regarding Axions-Photons Interaction

Study Shows Magnetic Order can be Created in a Two-Dimensional Chessboard Lattice

Researchers Create Wafer-Thin Magnetic Materials for Use in Future Quantum Technologies

Lithium Deposited on Tokamaks Walls Affect the Performance of Lithium Tokamak Experiment

Researchers Study Self-Synchronization of Quantum Objects

Researchers Explore Ways of Developing Quantum Bits by Using Graphene

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