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How to Customize Vacancies with Desired Features for Quantum Applications

Team's findings could help the design of industrially relevant quantum materials for sensing, computing and communication.

16 Dec 2021

Quantum Theory Cannot be Expressed by Real Numbers, Study Shows

Physicists construct theories to describe nature. Let us explain it through an analogy with something that we can do in our everyday life, like going on a hike in the mountains.

16 Dec 2021

Researchers Observe Exotic Fractional States at Low Magnetic Field in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Exotic quantum particles and phenomena are like the world's most daring elite athletes. Like the free solo climbers who scale impossibly steep cliff faces without a rope or harness, only the most extreme conditions will entice them to show up.

16 Dec 2021

Entanglement of Photon and Spin Qubits in Diamond Paves the Way for Building a Quantum Internet

Flaws in diamonds -; atomic defects where carbon is replaced by nitrogen or another element -; may offer a close-to-perfect interface for quantum computing, a proposed communications exchange that promises to be faster and more secure than current methods.

16 Dec 2021

Scientists Confirm Unusual Movement of Light Emitting Particles in Atomically-Thin Semiconductors

A highly unusual movement of light emitting particles in atomically-thin semiconductors was experimentally confirmed by scientists from the Würzburg–Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat–Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter.

15 Dec 2021

Incorporating Connected Moments Tool into Quantum Calculations Improves Simulation of Chemical Systems

Advancing quantum computing requires models that can solve many-body problems quickly and accurately. These problems involve anywhere from three to an infinite number of particles so small they are subject to quantum mechanics.

15 Dec 2021

Marathon Experiment Yields New Insight into how Atomic Nuclei are Built

University of Adelaide experts, who are part of the international community of researchers investigating the fundamental physical properties of atoms, may have come across a new paradigm for the way atomic nuclei are built.

15 Dec 2021

Closing in on the First Light in the Universe

Research using new antennas in the Australian hinterland has reduced background noise and brought us closer to finding a 13-billion-year-old signal.

15 Dec 2021

A New Method to Measure the Quintessential Properties of Spin Waves in Graphene

Spin waves, a change in electron spin that propagates through a material, could fundamentally change how devices store and carry information.

14 Dec 2021

Researchers Move Closer to Developing an Optical Atomic Clock with Highly Charged Ions

Laser beams can do more than just heat things up; they can cool them down too. That is nothing new for physicists who have devoted themselves to precision spectroscopy and the development of optical atomic clocks.

14 Dec 2021

New Perspective Details Quantum Interference in Molecular Collisions

Quantum interference (QI), which relies on the wave-particle duality of microscopic particles, significantly affects the dynamics of energy transfer and chemical reactions induced by molecular collisions.

14 Dec 2021

Split Photons may Also Exist, Researchers Say

Nearly a century after Italian physicist Ettore Majorana laid the groundwork for the discovery that electrons could be divided into halves, researchers predict that split photons may also exist, according to a study from Dartmouth and SUNY Polytechnic Institute researchers.

14 Dec 2021