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Research Team Receives Funding to Develop a Quantum Simulator

Quantum technologies--simulators and computers specifically--have the potential to revolutionize the 21st century, from improved national defense systems to drug discovery to more powerful sensors and communication networks.

28 Sep 2020

New Algorithm Removes Spin Contaminants from Quantum Computers

A group of scientists from Osaka City University has developed a new quantum algorithm that eliminates pesky spin contaminants and, at the same time, makes chemical calculations on quantum computers.

28 Sep 2020

To Kill a Quasiparticle: A Quantum Whodunit

In large systems of interacting particles in quantum mechanics, an intriguing phenomenon often emerges: groups of particles begin to behave like single particles. Physicists refer to such groups of particles as quasiparticles.

28 Sep 2020

New System Uses Quantum Physics Principles to Increase Performance of Communications Networks

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have devised and demonstrated a system that could dramatically increase the performance of communications networks while enabling record-low error rates in detecting even the faintest of signals, potentially decreasing the total amount of energy required for state-of-the-art networks by a factor of 10 to 100.

25 Sep 2020

Quantum Simulators Could Help Discover Tomorrow's Pharmaceuticals

No more testing the way forward: Tomorrow's pharmaceuticals will be discovered by quantum simulators

24 Sep 2020

Astrophysicists Establish the Presence of Water in Star Dust

Interstellar medium refers to the matter between the stars in a galaxy. It contains gas as well as a significant amount of dust. At a certain period of time, planets and stars evolved in such an environment, because the dust particles can cluster together and combine into celestial bodies.

23 Sep 2020

Modern Telescopes Help View the Galactic Center in Different Types of Light

The core of the Milky Way galaxy is quite far away for individuals to visit it directly, but people can still investigate it. Telescopes now offer an opportunity to observe what the Galactic Center looks like in diverse forms of light.

23 Sep 2020

New Method on Anyon Detection can Shed More Light on Exotic Quantum Matter

While all particles should exist either as bosons or fermions in a 3D world, researchers already know that in fewer dimensions, the presence of particles with intermediate quantum statistics, called anyons, is definitely feasible.

23 Sep 2020

Race for Quantum Supremacy Gathers Momentum with Several Companies Joining Bandwagon, Says Globaldata

Quantum computers are a step closer to reality to solve certain real life problems that are beyond the capability of conventional computers. However, the biggest challenge is that these machines should be able to manipulate several dozens of quantum bits or qubits to achieve impressive computational performance.

23 Sep 2020

Far-Ultraviolet Aurora Discovered at Comet Chury

In the aurora borealis on Earth, electrically charged particles of the solar wind move along the Earth's magnetic field.

22 Sep 2020

Federal Funding of New Technology is Vital for Astronomy

Federal funding of new technology is crucial for astronomy, according to results of a study released Sept. 21 in the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments and Systems.

22 Sep 2020

Researchers Discover a New Mechanism for the Stabilization of Skyrmions

The so-called skyrmions, small magnetic whirls that can take place in materials, have an excellent potential for innovative electronic devices or magnetic memory in which they are utilized as bits to store data.

22 Sep 2020

NASA’s IRIS Reveals the Heating Mechanism of Solar Corona

Scientists have recently described the first ever distinct images of nanojets (bright thin lights that move in a perpendicular direction to the magnetic structures in the Sun’s atmosphere, known as the corona) in a process that exposes the presence of one of the promising coronal heating candidates: nanoflares.

22 Sep 2020

Researchers Detect Distinctive Signature of Black Holes

An international group of astrophysicists has discovered unique signatures of black hole event horizon, unquestionably differentiating them from neutron stars—objects, similar to black holes in terms of size and mass but confined inside a hard surface.

22 Sep 2020

Physicists Reveal the Reason for Absence of Speed Limit in Superfluid

At Lancaster University, physicists have determined why objects traveling through superfluid helium-3 do not have a speed limit as part of a previous Lancaster study.

22 Sep 2020

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Research Team Receives Funding to Develop a Quantum Simulator

New Algorithm Removes Spin Contaminants from Quantum Computers

To Kill a Quasiparticle: A Quantum Whodunit

New System Uses Quantum Physics Principles to Increase Performance of Communications Networks

Quantum Simulators Could Help Discover Tomorrow's Pharmaceuticals

Astrophysicists Establish the Presence of Water in Star Dust

Modern Telescopes Help View the Galactic Center in Different Types of Light

New Method on Anyon Detection can Shed More Light on Exotic Quantum Matter

Race for Quantum Supremacy Gathers Momentum with Several Companies Joining Bandwagon, Says Globaldata

Far-Ultraviolet Aurora Discovered at Comet Chury

Federal Funding of New Technology is Vital for Astronomy

Researchers Discover a New Mechanism for the Stabilization of Skyrmions

NASA’s IRIS Reveals the Heating Mechanism of Solar Corona

Researchers Detect Distinctive Signature of Black Holes

Physicists Reveal the Reason for Absence of Speed Limit in Superfluid

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