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New Mathematical Framework Describes Motions in Superfluids That Exhibit Quantum Behavior

Researchers have developed a new mathematical framework capable of describing motions in superfluids – low temperature fluids that exhibit classical as well as quantum behavior. The framework was used to lift the veil of mystery surrounding strange objects in superfluid helium (detected ten years ago at Brown University).

25 Mar 2014

Kavli Institute Scientists Celebrate First Direct Evidence for Cosmic Inflation

Scientists at the University of Chicago’s Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics are celebrating last week’s headline-making announcement that astronomers have acquired the first direct evidence of gravitational waves rippling through the infant universe during an explosive period of growth called inflation.

25 Mar 2014

Reconnection of Quantum Vortexes Launches Kelvin Waves

Draining the water from a bathtub causes a spinning tornado to appear. The downward flow of water into the drain causes the water to rotate, and as the rotation speeds up, a vortex forms that obeys the laws of classical mechanics. However, if the water is extremely cold liquid helium, the fluid will swirl around an invisible line to form a vortex that obeys the laws of quantum mechanics.

25 Mar 2014

Bacterial Cells Coaxed to Produce Biofilms Incorporating Gold Nanoparticles and Quantum Dots

Inspired by natural materials such as bone — a matrix of minerals and other substances, including living cells — MIT engineers have coaxed bacterial cells to produce biofilms that can incorporate nonliving materials, such as gold nanoparticles and quantum dots.

25 Mar 2014

Diamond Transport Spin Better Than Metals

For the first time, physicists have demonstrated that information can flow through a diamond wire.

25 Mar 2014

First Space Mission for Highest-Energy Particles

Every second, our bodies and the objects around us are struck by cosmic rays that come mostly from sources deep in space. The highest-energy cosmic rays are the most energetic particles in the universe—far more powerful than anything humans could produce— but their origins are a mystery.

24 Mar 2014

Critical Testing of Theories for Particles Smaller Than Higgs

Nobody has seen them yet; particles that are smaller than the Higgs particle. However theories predict their existence, and now the most important of these theories have been critically tested. The result: The existence of the yet unseen particles is now more likely than ever.

24 Mar 2014

Strain Can Help Control Topological Insulators

Research into a recently discovered class of materials shows they have the necessary characteristics to develop ultra-energy efficient electronics. Topological insulators (TI) are three-dimensional materials that conduct electricity on their surfaces, while the interior insulates.

24 Mar 2014

New Composite 360-Degree Portrait of Milky Way Galaxy

Using more than 2 million images collected by NASA's orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of Wisconsin scientists has stitched together a dramatic 360 degree portrait of the Milky Way, providing new details of our galaxy's structure and contents.

24 Mar 2014

Joint Findings on Mass of Top Quark

Scientists working on the world’s leading particle collider experiments have joined forces, combined their data and produced the first joint result from Fermilab’s Tevatron and CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), both very powerful particle colliders on Earth. Scientists from the four experiments involved — ATLAS, CDF, CMS and DZero — announced their joint findings yesterday on the mass of the top quark, the heaviest known elementary particle, at the Rencontres de Moriond international physics conference in Italy.

24 Mar 2014

Quantum Physics News

New Mathematical Framework Describes Motions in Superfluids That Exhibit Quantum Behavior

Kavli Institute Scientists Celebrate First Direct Evidence for Cosmic Inflation

Reconnection of Quantum Vortexes Launches Kelvin Waves

Bacterial Cells Coaxed to Produce Biofilms Incorporating Gold Nanoparticles and Quantum Dots

Diamond Transport Spin Better Than Metals

First Space Mission for Highest-Energy Particles

Critical Testing of Theories for Particles Smaller Than Higgs

Strain Can Help Control Topological Insulators

New Composite 360-Degree Portrait of Milky Way Galaxy

Joint Findings on Mass of Top Quark

Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

LabOne Q: An Intuitive Software Framework for Scalable Quantum Computing

ORCA-Quest qCMOS Camera by Hamamatsu

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Repeat-Until-Success Algorithm for Quantum Gate Decomposition

Researchers Exploit the Color Centers in Diamond to Enhance Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Processes for NMR Applications

Application of Electro-Optic Phase Modulator in Pound-Drever Hall Technique for Laser Frequency Stabilization

Quantum Physics News

Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

1Enhancing Quantum Error Correction Effectiveness

2New Discovery Links ORC Formation to Merging Galaxy Clusters

3AIST Selects QuEra’s Neutral-Atom Quantum Computer to Be Installed Alongside NVIDIA-Powered ABCI-Q Supercomputer

4Quantum Challenge to Be Solved One Mile Underground

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