The key to establishing ever more powerful quantum computers, such as Google’s Sycamore, lies in understanding entanglement. New research shows that this phenomenon, once described as ‘spooky action at a distance’ by Einstein, is not a factor of contact, but of identity.
By Robert Lea
15 Jun 2020
Researchers from Brazil’s Nuclear Engineering Institute recently became the first to attempt to apply graphene quantum dots (GQDs) to the treatment of low-level liquid radioactive waste.
By Andrew Messios
3 Jun 2020
Sterile neutrinos are currently the leading candidate for dark matter. However, tell-tale signatures of their decay have so far failed to be detected.
By Robert Lea
26 May 2020
There is a growing interest in the use of amorphous materials in a range of advanced industrial and scientific applications. This article discusses their short range order using electron diffraction.
By Cvetelin Vasilev
19 May 2020
Quantum physics and transmission electron microscopy allow investigation of materials much smaller than optical microscopes.