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Scientists Build Quantum Computer from Five Atoms in Ion Trap

What are the prime factors, or multipliers, for the number 15? Most grade school students know the answer — 3 and 5 — by memory. A larger number, such as 91, may take some pen and paper. An even larger number, say with 232 digits, can (and has) taken scientists two years to factor, using hundreds of classical computers operating in parallel.

4 Mar 2016

Whitewood Encryption Systems, Cryptsoft Bring Advanced Quantum Security to Enterprise Key Management Market

Whitewood, developers of crypto-security solutions and Cryptsoft, the major OEM provider of Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) technology to the enterprise key management security market, today announced a technology integration between the Cryptsoft KMIP C Server SDK and the Whitewood Entropy EngineTM Quantum-powered Random Number Generator (QRNG).

3 Mar 2016

Astronomers Confirm that Some ‘Fast Radio Bursts’ Emit Repeated Pulses

After combing through Cornell-archived data, astronomers have discovered the pop-pop-pop of a mysterious, cosmic Gatling gun – 10 millisecond-long “fast radio bursts” – caught by the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, as reported in Nature, March 2.

3 Mar 2016

New Proof-of-Concept Device Could Help Create More Energy-Efficient Electronic Devices

A team of researchers, led by a group at the University of California, Riverside, have demonstrated for the first time the transmission of electrical signals through insulators in a sandwich-like structure, a development that could help create more energy efficient electronic devices.

3 Mar 2016

Astronomers Study Mysterious Origin of Massive Stars Buried Within RCW 106

RCW 106 is a sprawling cloud of gas and dust located about 12 000 light-years away in the southern constellation of Norma (The Carpenter’s Square). The region gets its name from being the 106th entry in a catalogue of H II regions in the southern Milky Way [1]. H II regions like RCW 106 are clouds of hydrogen gas that are being ionised by the intense starlight of scorching-hot, young stars, causing them to glow and display weird and wonderful shapes.

3 Mar 2016

World's Top Particle Accelerators Reach Milestone

One of the world's top particle accelerators has reached a milestone, achieving its "first turns" — circulating beams of particles for the first time — and opening a new window into the universe, a view that will give physicists access to a record rate of particle collisions in a tiny volume in space.

3 Mar 2016

UK Centre for Superconducting and Hybrid Quantum Systems to Focus on Quantum Technology

The UK-CSQS collaboration, with founder members Lancaster University, Royal Holloway London and the National Physical Laboratory, brings together the UK’s most experienced scientists working on superconducting quantum technologies and aims to provide shared access to nanofabrication and measurement facilities at all three sites.

3 Mar 2016

Physicists Working at LHC Accelerator See First Traces of Physics Beyond Current Theory

In light of the latest analysis on the decay of beauty mesons, the dawn of a new era, that of 'new physics', may be approaching. An important contribution to the analysis has been made by physicists from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ PAN) from Poland.

3 Mar 2016

Transit Spectroscopy Might Enable Astronomers to Scan Atmospheres of Exoplanets

Are we alone in the universe? To answer this question, astronomers have been using a variety of methods in the past decades to search for habitable planets and for the signals from extraterrestrial observers – to date, with no success.

2 Mar 2016

University of Surrey Receives Grant to Address Challenges of Enabling Solid State Quantum Technologies

A new £3 million grant announced today by Universities and Science minister Jo Johnson has been awarded to the University of Surrey to provide the answer to the challenge of enabling solid state quantum technologies, leading to quantum computers.

2 Mar 2016

EPSRC Awards £9 Million Funding to Quantum Engineering Technology Labs

The University of Bristol’s Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QETLabs) has set out to change the way quantum technologies are designed, developed and manufactured and to create a world-leading centre to train entrepreneurially-minded quantum engineers.

2 Mar 2016

Findings at RHIC and LHC Help Better Understand Origins of the Universe

Actually, there is no reason either to go to your local theatre or to leave this galaxy for another one far away if you want to know what happened a long time ago in our universe.

2 Mar 2016

Internal Tension Cracks Responsible for Formation of Celestial Bodies of Different Sizes

A Duke theorist says there's a very good reason why objects in the universe come in a wide variety of sizes, from the largest stars to the smallest dust motes -- and it has a lot to do with how paint cracks when it dries.

2 Mar 2016

Study Results Help Better Understand Fundamental Aspects of Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

The investigation and exploitation of light-matter-interaction in optical resonators is one of the central research topics in the Quantum Dynamics Division of Professor Gerhard Rempe, Director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching. A couple of years ago, the team succeeded in creating single-photon emitters using single atoms stored in optical resonators.

1 Mar 2016

Theoretical Physicist Peter Zoller Receives Coveted Award for Research in Quantum Physics Field

Theoretical physicist Peter Zoller has been awarded the Herbert Walther Award 2016 for his groundbreaking research in the field of quantum physics. The joint German-American prize honoring outstanding contributions to quantum optics and atomic physics will be presented today during the DPG Spring Meeting in Hanover.

1 Mar 2016

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Scientists Build Quantum Computer from Five Atoms in Ion Trap

Whitewood Encryption Systems, Cryptsoft Bring Advanced Quantum Security to Enterprise Key Management Market

Astronomers Confirm that Some ‘Fast Radio Bursts’ Emit Repeated Pulses

New Proof-of-Concept Device Could Help Create More Energy-Efficient Electronic Devices

Astronomers Study Mysterious Origin of Massive Stars Buried Within RCW 106

World's Top Particle Accelerators Reach Milestone

UK Centre for Superconducting and Hybrid Quantum Systems to Focus on Quantum Technology

Physicists Working at LHC Accelerator See First Traces of Physics Beyond Current Theory

Transit Spectroscopy Might Enable Astronomers to Scan Atmospheres of Exoplanets

University of Surrey Receives Grant to Address Challenges of Enabling Solid State Quantum Technologies

EPSRC Awards £9 Million Funding to Quantum Engineering Technology Labs

Findings at RHIC and LHC Help Better Understand Origins of the Universe

Internal Tension Cracks Responsible for Formation of Celestial Bodies of Different Sizes

Study Results Help Better Understand Fundamental Aspects of Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

Theoretical Physicist Peter Zoller Receives Coveted Award for Research in Quantum Physics Field

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