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Researchers Use Quantum Simulation to Explore a "Bosonization" Phenomenon

In the text book of quantum mechanics, it was introduced that bosons and fermions, two types of elementary particles that build the universe, behave in a drastically different way. For example, bosons can share the same quantum state while fermions of the same kind cannot but fill available quantum states one by one.

18 Dec 2020

Small Quantum Computer can Solve a Real Logistics Problem

Quantum computers have already managed to surpass ordinary computers in solving certain tasks - unfortunately, totally useless ones. The next milestone is to get them to do useful things. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have now shown that they can solve a small part of a real logistics problem with their small, but well-functioning quantum computer.

18 Dec 2020

New Super-Fast Photon Source Could Enable Massive Quantum Device Integration

Numerous aspects of the day-to-day lives of humans can be completely transformed by super-fast quantum computers and communication devices.

18 Dec 2020

Researchers Observe Dark Matter that Confirms Origin, Evolution of Universe

To date, over 50% of the matter in the universe has remained invisible to human beings. But astrophysicists had a notion where it might be located: In supposed filaments, incomprehensibly huge thread-like structures of hot gas surrounding and connecting galaxies and clusters of galaxies.

18 Dec 2020

'Modified Gravity' Offers a Viable Explanation for Cosmological Dilemma

An international research team has recently published a study challenging that a rival concept to the well-known hypothesis of dark matter can more precisely estimate a galactic phenomenon that seems to defy the traditional rules of gravity.

17 Dec 2020

Scientists Detect Radio Bursts Emanating from the Constellation Boötes

By monitoring the cosmos with a radio telescope array, a Cornell University-led international team of scientists has detected radio bursts emanating from the constellation Boötes. The signal could be the first radio emission collected from a planet beyond our solar system.

17 Dec 2020

Researchers Realize Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Multilayered Insulator

New energy-efficient electronic devices may be possible thanks to research that demonstrates the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect -- where an electrical current does not lose energy as it flows along the edges of the material -- over a broader range of conditions.

17 Dec 2020

Research Improves Understanding of the Most-Distant Known Astrophysical Object

New work from an international team of astronomers including Carnegie's Gregory Walth improves our understanding of the most-distant known astrophysical object-- GN-z11, a galaxy 13.4 billion light-years from Earth.

17 Dec 2020

Study Sheds Light on Surprising Choreography Among Spinning Atoms

A new study illuminates surprising choreography among spinning atoms. In a paper appearing in the journal Nature, researchers from MIT and Harvard University reveal how magnetic forces at the quantum, atomic scale affect how atoms orient their spins.

17 Dec 2020

Researchers Discover Curious Starless Binary System of Brown Dwarfs

Star-forming processes sometimes create mysterious astronomical objects called brown dwarfs, which are smaller and colder than stars, and can have masses and temperatures down to those of exoplanets in the most extreme cases. Just like stars, brown dwarfs often wander alone through space, but can also be seen in binary systems, where two brown dwarfs orbit one another and travel together in the galaxy.

17 Dec 2020

Researchers Demonstrate Sustained, Long-Distance Teleportation of Photon Qubits

Precision sensing, data storage, and computing could be completely revolutionized by a viable quantum internet—a network where information stored in qubits is shared over long distances via entanglement—leading to a new communication era.

16 Dec 2020

Massive Underground Instrument Finds Final Secret Of Our Sun's Fusion

A hyper-sensitive instrument, deep underground in Italy, has finally succeeded at the nearly impossible task of detecting CNO neutrinos (tiny particles pointing to the presence of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen) from our sun's core. These little-known particles reveal the last missing detail of the fusion cycle powering our sun and other stars.

15 Dec 2020