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KFU's Employees Comment on the Latest Developments in Quantum Computing

Quantum computing has been a hot topic since late 1980s. There has been no full-scale quantum computers as of yet, but there are significant accomplishments. For example, the first quantum computer consisted of only 16 qubits, and the latest one (summer 2015) – more than 1000. Canadian company D-Wave Systems has been producing 128-qubit computers based on quantum annealing since 2011. There are some currently at work at Lockheed Martin.

27 Oct 2015

Comet Lovejoy Releases Alcohol and Sugar

Comet Lovejoy lived up to its name by releasing large amounts of alcohol as well as a type of sugar into space, according to new observations by an international team.

26 Oct 2015

Astronomers Calculate Magnetic Field Strengths in Fusion-Powered Hearts of Stars

Astronomers have for the first time probed the magnetic fields in the mysterious inner regions of stars, finding they are strongly magnetized.

26 Oct 2015

Researchers Suppress Quantum Tunneling Merely by Observing the Atoms

One of the oddest predictions of quantum theory – that a system can’t change while you’re watching it – has been confirmed in an experiment by Cornell physicists. Their work opens the door to a fundamentally new method to control and manipulate the quantum states of atoms and could lead to new kinds of sensors.

26 Oct 2015

Astronomers Discover Over 250 of the Earliest Dwarf Galaxies

Before light travelled across it, the universe was a dark place. For about a billion years after the Big Bang, the cosmos was cloaked in a thick fog of hydrogen gas that kept light trapped.

26 Oct 2015

Gravitational Lensing Reveals Largest Sample of Faintest, Earliest Known Galaxies

Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have taken advantage of gravitational lensing to reveal the largest sample of the faintest and earliest known galaxies in the Universe.

26 Oct 2015

Attophysics Helps Track Ultrafast Movement of Electrons in Molecules

Researchers have, for the first time, been able to track the movement of an electron in a molecule in real time and have demonstrated that these processes can be controlled - in the future this will make it possible to directly control the progress of chemical reactions and biological processes and obtain a desired result literally at the touch of a button.

26 Oct 2015

Rice University Physicist Wins APS Prize for Pioneering Research in Ultracold Atomic Gases

The American Physical Society has awarded Rice University physicist Randy Hulet the prestigious 2016 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic Physics.

23 Oct 2015

SLAC's Claudio Pellegrini Honored with Fermi Award

President Obama welcomed SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's Claudio Pellegrini into the Oval Office Tuesday morning as a recipient of the Enrico Fermi Award, one of the highest honors the U.S. government can give to a scientist.

23 Oct 2015

APS Honors Northwestern University Astrophysicist with 2016 Hans A. Bethe Prize

Northwestern University astrophysicist Vicky Kalogera has been awarded the 2016 Hans A. Bethe Prize from the American Physical Society (APS).

23 Oct 2015

Massive Double Star Could be Heading for a Dramatic End

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, an international team of astronomers have found the hottest and most massive double star with components so close that they touch each other.

23 Oct 2015

Unique Hydrodynamic Simulation of the Universe's Visible Matter

Within modern cosmology, the Big Bang marks the beginning of the universe and the creation of matter, space and time about 13.8 billion years ago.

23 Oct 2015

Black Hole Shreds Star to Pieces

When a star comes too close to a black hole, the intense gravity of the black hole results in tidal forces that can rip the star apart. In these events, called tidal disruptions, some of the stellar debris is flung outward at high speeds, while the rest falls toward the black hole. This causes a distinct X-ray flare that can last for years.

23 Oct 2015

ICFO Random Number Generators Play Critical Role in Experiment that Refutes Einstein's ‘Local Realism’ Principle

Random number generators developed at ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, by the groups of ICREA Professors Morgan W. Mitchell and Valerio Pruneri, played a critical role in the historic experiment was published online today in Nature by the group of Ronald Hanson at TU Delft.

23 Oct 2015

Quantum Algorithm Achieves Quantum Simulation of Fermionic Models in Superconducting Circuits

In collaboration with the Google Inc. research group and the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), the Quantum Technologies for Information Science (QUTIS) research group of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has published a paper in the prestigious journal Nature Communications and entitled “Digital quantum simulation of fermionic models with a superconducting circuit”.

22 Oct 2015

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KFU's Employees Comment on the Latest Developments in Quantum Computing

Comet Lovejoy Releases Alcohol and Sugar

Astronomers Calculate Magnetic Field Strengths in Fusion-Powered Hearts of Stars

Researchers Suppress Quantum Tunneling Merely by Observing the Atoms

Astronomers Discover Over 250 of the Earliest Dwarf Galaxies

Gravitational Lensing Reveals Largest Sample of Faintest, Earliest Known Galaxies

Attophysics Helps Track Ultrafast Movement of Electrons in Molecules

Rice University Physicist Wins APS Prize for Pioneering Research in Ultracold Atomic Gases

SLAC's Claudio Pellegrini Honored with Fermi Award

APS Honors Northwestern University Astrophysicist with 2016 Hans A. Bethe Prize

Massive Double Star Could be Heading for a Dramatic End

Unique Hydrodynamic Simulation of the Universe's Visible Matter

Black Hole Shreds Star to Pieces

ICFO Random Number Generators Play Critical Role in Experiment that Refutes Einstein's ‘Local Realism’ Principle

Quantum Algorithm Achieves Quantum Simulation of Fermionic Models in Superconducting Circuits

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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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