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Magnetars may be More Diverse and common than Previously Thought

Magnetars – the dense remains of dead stars that erupt sporadically with bursts of high-energy radiation - are some of the most extreme objects known in the Universe. A major campaign using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and several other satellites shows magnetars may be more diverse - and common - than previously thought.

24 May 2013

Tuning Electronic Properties of Topological Insulators may Help Realize Quantum Computers

Research teams from UW-Milwaukee and the University of York investigating the properties of ultra-thin films of new materials are helping bring quantum computing one step closer to reality.

24 May 2013

ESO Celebrates 15 Years of the Very Large Telescope with New View of Spectacular Stellar Nursery

This new picture celebrates an important anniversary for the Very Large Telescope – it is fifteen years since the first light on the first of its four Unit Telescopes, on 25 May 1998. Since then the four original giant telescopes have been joined by the four small Auxiliary Telescopes that form part of the VLT Interferometer (VLTI).

24 May 2013

NSF Honors MSU Einstein Researcher with Young Investigator CAREER Award

A Montana State University physicist who recently led Bozeman in celebrating Einstein has now won a five-year $500,000 Young Investigator CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.

23 May 2013

PTB SQUID Sensor Chip Helps Understand Superfluid Quantum Liquid Helium-3

With their SQUIDs, low-temperature specialists of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) have made it possible for the magnetic moments of atoms of the rare isotope 3He (helium-3) to be measured with extreme sensitivity.

23 May 2013

Two Hungry Young Galaxies Collide to Form Mega Galaxy

Two hungry young galaxies that collided 11 billion years ago are rapidly forming a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way, according to UC Irvine-led research published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

23 May 2013

Joint Quantum Institute Establishes New Record for Generating Heralded Photons

Entanglement, by general consensus of physicists, is the weirdest part of quantum science. To say that two particles, A and B, are entangled means that they are actually two parts of an inseparable quantum thing. An important consequence of this inherent kinship is that measuring a property of A (say, the particle's polarization) is necessarily to know the corresponding property of B, even if you're not there with a detector to observe B and even if (as explained below) the existence of that property had no prior fixed value until the moment particle A was detected.

21 May 2013

Innsbruck Physicists Gain Deep Insight into Nature of Quantum Mechanical Phase Transitions

Innsbruck physicists led by Rainer Blatt and Peter Zoller experimentally gained a deep insight into the nature of quantum mechanical phase transitions. They are the first scientists that simulated the competition between two rival dynamical processes at a novel type of transition between two quantum mechanical orders. They have published the results of their work in the journal Nature Physics.

21 May 2013

Cryptsoft Completes Technology Integration with Quantum Technology Provider, ID Quantique

Cryptsoft, the major OEM provider of KMIP technology to the enterprise key management security market, today announced completion of a technology integration with ID Quantique SA (IDQ), the leading provider of quantum technology to offer the option of a quantum entropy source within a standards compliant KMIP server.

20 May 2013

UCLA Meteorite Museum Displays Chondrules Formed from Clumps of Dust in the Solar Nebula

Nearly 50,000 years ago, an asteroid fragment slammed into Earth approximately 40 miles east of what is now Flagstaff, Ariz.

20 May 2013

Quantum Physics News

Magnetars may be More Diverse and common than Previously Thought

Tuning Electronic Properties of Topological Insulators may Help Realize Quantum Computers

ESO Celebrates 15 Years of the Very Large Telescope with New View of Spectacular Stellar Nursery

NSF Honors MSU Einstein Researcher with Young Investigator CAREER Award

PTB SQUID Sensor Chip Helps Understand Superfluid Quantum Liquid Helium-3

Two Hungry Young Galaxies Collide to Form Mega Galaxy

Joint Quantum Institute Establishes New Record for Generating Heralded Photons

Innsbruck Physicists Gain Deep Insight into Nature of Quantum Mechanical Phase Transitions

Cryptsoft Completes Technology Integration with Quantum Technology Provider, ID Quantique

UCLA Meteorite Museum Displays Chondrules Formed from Clumps of Dust in the Solar Nebula

The Limits of Current Quantum Simulations

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