Quantum Physics News

RSS

Arrhythmic, Massive Outbursts Observed in Dying Stars

Some dying stars suffer from ‘irregular heartbeats’, research led by astronomers at the University of Warwick has discovered.

27 Aug 2015

$Atomically Thin Graphene Diffraction Masks Help Demonstrate Quantum Mechanical Nature of Massive Objects$

Atomically Thin Graphene Diffraction Masks Help Demonstrate Quantum Mechanical Nature of Massive Objects

The quantum mechanical wave nature of matter is the basis for a number of modern technologies like high resolution electron microscopy, neutron-based studies on solid state materials or highly sensitive inertial sensors working with atoms.

26 Aug 2015

NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Reveals Exciting New Details of Dwarf Planet Ceres

The closest-yet views of Ceres, delivered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, show the small world's features in unprecedented detail, including Ceres' tall, conical mountain; crater formation features and narrow, braided fractures.

26 Aug 2015

Water Molecules Confined in ‘Buckyballs’ Produce Supramolecular Endofullerenes for Detecting Ortho–Para Conversion

New research by scientists from the University of Southampton has found that water molecules react differently to electric fields, which could provide a new way to study spin isomers at the single-molecule level.

26 Aug 2015

Scientists Identify Volatile Gas That Drove Lunar Fire Fountain Eruptions

Tiny beads of volcanic glass found on the lunar surface during the Apollo missions are a sign that fire fountain eruptions took place on the Moon's surface. Now, scientists from Brown University and the Carnegie Institution for Science have identified the volatile gas that drove those eruptions.

25 Aug 2015

Physicists Make Advances in Quantum Logic Gates for Quantum Computers

A team of physicists at the University of Toronto (U of T) have taken a step toward making the essential building block of quantum computers out of pure light. Their advance, described in a paper published this week in Nature Physics, has to do with a specific part of computer circuitry known as a "logic gate."

25 Aug 2015

Optical Tunnelling of Electron from an Atom Could Occur Instantaneously

The combination of ab-initio numerical experiments and theory shows that optical tunnelling of an electron from an atom can occur instantaneously.

25 Aug 2015

American Astronomical Society Honors NASA Goddard Scientist with 2015 Harold C. Urey Prize

The Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society awarded its 2015 Harold C. Urey Prize to Dr. Geronimo Luis Villanueva of the Catholic University of America, Washington and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.

24 Aug 2015

Researchers Plan to Flush out Dark Energy Hiding in the Form of 'Chameleons'

If dark energy is hiding in our midst in the form of hypothetical particles called "chameleons," Holger Müller and his team at the University of California, Berkeley, plan to flush them out.

24 Aug 2015

Saturn’s F Ring and Shepherd Satellites Could Be Natural Outcome of Formation of Saturn’s Satellite System

HYODO Ryuki, a second-year student in the Doctoral Program, and Professor OHTSUKI Keiji of the Graduate School of Science at Kobe University have revealed that Saturn’s F ring and its shepherd satellites are natural outcome of the final stage of formation of Saturn’s satellite system. Their finding has been published online in Nature Geoscience on August 17.

24 Aug 2015