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Quantum Properties of Light Used to Create Incredibly Sharp Images

Scientists at Stevens Institute of Technology have developed a new 3D imaging system that utilizes the quantum properties of light to produce images that are 40,000 times sharper than existing technologies.

25 Feb 2020

Light-Emitting Material Defects Could Enable Future Quantum-Based Technologies

With quantum technologies as a basis for the future, spaceships and planes could be driven by the momentum of light.

25 Feb 2020

New Encryption to Prevent Quantum Cyber-Attacks

EU-funded scientists have developed encryption chips that use quantum physics to make the internet ‘unhackable’, protecting us against highly sophisticated, novel cyber-attacks.

25 Feb 2020

Study Reveals New Details about the Earliest Stages of Star Formation

Using two of the world’s most intense radio telescopes, an international team of astronomers has successfully created over 300 images of planet-creating disks around extremely young stars in the Orion Clouds.

21 Feb 2020

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Reveals Surprising History of Sombrero Galaxy

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a new, surprising data, suggesting that the settled and smooth “brim” of the disk of Sombrero galaxy disk may be hiding a chaotic past.

21 Feb 2020

Unseen Complex Atomic Interactions Observed by New Quantum Experiment

For the first time in the field of quantum physics, researchers at the University of Otago have been able to “hold” individual atoms in place and observe complex atomic interactions that have been never seen before.

21 Feb 2020

Superfast Quantum Simulation to Predict Time Evolution of Interacting Electrons

The equations of quantum mechanics can be used to accurately predict the behavior of an electron in an atom, or how it moves within a solid.

21 Feb 2020

Dynamic Stabilization in Topological Matter Used for Protected Quantum Transport

At the Ames Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, researchers have found that the key to avoiding dissipations of the preferred electron states, which would render spintronics and advanced quantum computing possible, could be to apply vibrational motion in a periodic way.

19 Feb 2020

Researchers Observe New Rotational States in Neutron-Deficient 88Ru Nucleus

Researchers recently visualized the internal structure of ruthenium-88, a rare isotope. This observation throws new light on the internal structure of atomic nuclei, a milestone that could offer a better understanding of the formation of certain chemical elements in nature and their isotopes.

18 Feb 2020

Quantum Mechanical Effects in Atoms, Molecules Studied at High Time Resolution

Led by Prof. Dr Frank Stienkemeier and Dr Lukas Bruder, a team of researchers at the Institute of Physics of the University of Freiburg has successfully observed, in real time, ultrafast quantum interferences—or the oscillation patterns—of electrons that occur in the atomic shells of rare gas atoms.

By Matt Pullen 17 Feb 2020