The Centre for Quantum Technologies has launched Quantum Shorts 2012, a competition to create the best short film no longer than 3 minutes based on ideas associated with quantum physics. Top short films will be exhibited on newscientist.com, a well-known science news website.
By Will Soutter
17 Jul 2012
A research team comprising Filippo Miatto and other physicists from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, has discovered a new technique to reliably evaluate the information carried by photon pairs utilized for quantum computing and cryptography applications.
By Will Soutter
13 Jul 2012
Due to non-availability of complete information, majority of the predictions made often go wrong, such as in the case of predicting weather condition.
By Will Soutter
12 Jul 2012
Maxim Perelstein, a Physics Professor at the Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics at Cornell University, has commented on the latest announcement related to the detection of Higgs particle and its significance in elementary physics.
By Will Soutter
6 Jul 2012
The CMS and ATLAS experiments have presented their most recent initial results of their research on the Higgs boson particle at a seminar hosted by CERN as a curtain raiser to ICHEP2012, a key particle physics conference to be held in Melbourne, Australia.
By Will Soutter
5 Jul 2012
A research group from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, University of Huddersfield, University of Bristol, and University of Kent has identified a new type of unconventional superconductors.
By Will Soutter
4 Jul 2012
A team of physicists from the Kansas State University has found a new class of three-body bound states, which may provide new insights into matter and its composition.
By Will Soutter
4 Jul 2012
A research team has developed an advanced experimental system that is capable of producing attosecond bursts of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light.
By Will Soutter
2 Jul 2012
Scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Politecnico di Milano, and the University of California (UC), San Diego, have shown the first heralded single photon source generated from silicon, a significant step towards the realization of more realistic quantum information processing.
By Will Soutter
29 Jun 2012
A scientific seminar will be hosted by CERN on July 4, 2012 to discuss the latest results on the Higgs boson. The CMS and ATLAS experiments will present the initial results of the 2012 data analysis at this event, which comes as a curtain raiser for ICHEP, a key particle physics conference to be conducted in Melbourne, Australia.
By Will Soutter
25 Jun 2012
Researchers from Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), University of Kiel and University of Hamburg have for the first time watched the quantum race of two electrons that are released from atoms during photoionization, that is, under the control of laser radiation.
By Will Soutter
22 Jun 2012
Researchers from Rice University, the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), and Kyoto University have provided new insights regarding striking resemblances between the electronic properties of a recently discovered iron-based high-temperature superconductor (HTS) and its copper-based counterparts.
By Will Soutter
22 Jun 2012
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Harvard University, and Caltech have succeeded in increasing the lifetime of a quantum bit (qubit) in a diamond crystal to over a second at room temperature. In earlier attempts, the storage time of this kind of qubit was only a few thousandths of a second.
The Hall effect has been observed for the very first time in a gas of ultracold atoms by researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This discovery will enable scientists to enhance their knowledge about the physics of the quantum Hall effect and superfluidity.
By Will Soutter
20 Jun 2012
Daniel Grumiller and Gabriela Mocanu, researchers at the Vienna University of Technology, have devised a new technique to demonstrate the existence of theoretical ‘axions,’ which may encircle a black hole and extort energy from it. This may result in the emission of gravity waves, which can then be calculated.
By Will Soutter
19 Jun 2012