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ITMO Scientists Devise New Way to Effectively Generate and Distribute Quantum Bits

A group of scientists from ITMO University in Saint Petersburg, Russia has developed a novel approach to the construction of quantum communication systems for secure data exchange.

13 Apr 2016

Analyzing Special Decay of Calcium-48 Could Help Directly Obtain Neutrino Mass

Neutrinos were discovered more than 60 years ago; however, scientists are yet to discover some of their fundamental properties, such as their mass (for which only the upper limit is known; this is around 3.6 x 10-36 kg), or whether neutrinos and antineutrinos are in fact the same particle.

13 Apr 2016

Physicists Observe Novel Phase Transitions Resulting from Energetic Three-Way Battles

When water in a pot is slowly heated to the boil, an exciting duel of energies takes place inside the liquid. On the one hand there is the interaction energy that wants to keep the water molecules together because of their mutual attraction.

12 Apr 2016

Researchers Observe Magnetic Field Decreases Resistance of Non-Magnetic Metals

Insights from pure mathematics are lending new insights to material physics, which could aid in development of new devices and sensors. Now an international team of physicists has discovered that applying a magnetic field to a non-magnetic metal made it conduct 70% more electricity, even though basic physics principles would have predicted the opposite.

12 Apr 2016

New Tool Offers Potential to Better Manipulate Qubit Communications within Quantum System

Physicists from the University of Oregon have merged sound and light to regulate electron states existing in an atom-like system. This new tool can help move towards quantum-computing systems.

12 Apr 2016

Doping 2D Layered Materials with Quantum Dots Could Help Design Better Optoelectronic Devices

Harnessing the power of the sun and creating light-harvesting or light-sensing devices requires a material that both absorbs light efficiently and converts the energy to highly mobile electrical current. Finding the ideal mix of properties in a single material is a challenge, so scientists have been experimenting with ways to combine different materials to create "hybrids" with enhanced features.

11 Apr 2016

Researchers Unravel Novel Behavior in Materials that Shows Promise for Quantum Computing Using Neutrons

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used neutrons to uncover novel behavior in materials that holds promise for quantum computing. The findings, published in Nature Materials, provide evidence for long-sought phenomena in a two-dimensional magnet.

11 Apr 2016

Exotic Quantum Effects Play Dominant Role During Chemical Reactions in Solutions

Objects of the quantum world are of a concealed and cold-blooded nature: they usually behave in a quantum manner only when they are significantly cooled and isolated from the environment. Experiments carried out by chemists and physicists from Warsaw have destroyed this simple picture. It turns out that not only does one of the most interesting quantum effects occur at room temperature and higher, but it plays a dominant role in the course of chemical reactions in solutions!

11 Apr 2016

Quantum Behaviour of Hydrogen Affects Structural Properties of Hydrogen Sulphide

Research by the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country and DIPC-Donostia International Physics Center has concluded that the quantum effects explain why hydrogen sulphide is a superconductor at record-breaking temperatures

11 Apr 2016

MIT Researchers Develop New Approach to Preserve Superposition in Quantum Devices

Quantum computers are largely hypothetical devices that could perform some calculations much more rapidly than conventional computers can. They exploit a property called superposition, which describes a quantum particle's counterintuitive ability to, in some sense, inhabit more than one physical state at the same time.

7 Apr 2016

Researchers Use Diamond Quantum Memory to Change Color of Single Photons

A team of researchers from the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo have used a room-temperature diamond quantum memory to transform the bandwidth and color of super-fast single photons.

6 Apr 2016

New NANOGrav Results Help Understand How Galaxies and Their Central Black Holes Co-Evolve

Summary: New results from NANOGrav – the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves – establish astrophysically significant limits in the search for low-frequency gravitational waves. This result provides insight into how often galaxies merge and how those merging galaxies evolve over time. To obtain this result, scientists required an exquisitely precise, nine-year pulsar-monitoring campaign conducted by two of the most sensitive radio telescopes on Earth, the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

6 Apr 2016

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ITMO Scientists Devise New Way to Effectively Generate and Distribute Quantum Bits

Analyzing Special Decay of Calcium-48 Could Help Directly Obtain Neutrino Mass

Physicists Observe Novel Phase Transitions Resulting from Energetic Three-Way Battles

Researchers Observe Magnetic Field Decreases Resistance of Non-Magnetic Metals

New Tool Offers Potential to Better Manipulate Qubit Communications within Quantum System

Doping 2D Layered Materials with Quantum Dots Could Help Design Better Optoelectronic Devices

Researchers Unravel Novel Behavior in Materials that Shows Promise for Quantum Computing Using Neutrons

Exotic Quantum Effects Play Dominant Role During Chemical Reactions in Solutions

Quantum Behaviour of Hydrogen Affects Structural Properties of Hydrogen Sulphide

MIT Researchers Develop New Approach to Preserve Superposition in Quantum Devices

Researchers Use Diamond Quantum Memory to Change Color of Single Photons

New NANOGrav Results Help Understand How Galaxies and Their Central Black Holes Co-Evolve

Pulsed Laser Seeding Technique Enables Rapid, Unbreakable Quantum Key Distribution

Researchers Discover Mysterious New Quantum State of Matter

Australian Researchers Use Bright Laser Beam to Cool Special Form of Quantum Liquid

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Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

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