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Quantum Dots Enable Creation of Light with High Degree of Linear Polarization

By emitting photons from a quantum dot at the top of a micropyramid, researchers at Linköping University are creating a polarized light source for such things as energy-saving computer screens and wiretap-proof communications.

3 Feb 2014

Jolting Complex Materials with Energy Bursts Can Help Study High-Temperature Superconductivity

Jolting complex materials with bursts of energy from rapid-fire lasers can help scientists learn why some of these materials exhibit useful properties such as high-temperature superconductivity, a team led by SLAC and Stanford researchers has reported.

3 Feb 2014

Researchers Complete Computer Simulations of Early Stages of Planet Formation Around Binary Stars

Luke Skywalker's home planet Tatooine would have formed far from its current location in the Star Wars universe, a new University of Bristol study into its real world counterparts, observed by the Kepler space telescope, suggests.

3 Feb 2014

Simple Way to Slow Down Polar Molecules Offers New Opportunities in Quantum Information Processing

Compared with our breath, passenger planes move at a pretty leisurely pace. On the average, nitrogen molecules, for example, travel at a speed of more than 1,700 kilometres per hour at room temperature, or almost one-and-a-half times the speed of sound. This means the particles are much too fast for many experiments, and also some conceivable applications.

31 Jan 2014

NSA May be Attempting to Exploit Practical Loops in Quantum Key Distribution

In this month's issue of Physics World, Jon Cartwright explains how the revelation that the US National Security Agency (NSA) is developing quantum computers has renewed interest and sparked debate on just how far ahead they are of the world's major labs looking to develop the same technology.

31 Jan 2014

Quantum Logic Spectroscopy Extended to Photon-Recoil Spectroscopy

Quantum logic spectroscopy – which is closely linked with the name of the 2012 Nobel prize laureate, David J. Wineland – has been significantly extended: this new method is called "photon-recoil spectroscopy" (PRS). The potential of this method has been demonstrated by the research group led by Piet Schmidt from the QUEST Institute, which is based at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, together with colleagues from Leibniz University Hannover.

31 Jan 2014

STFC Awards £113,223 to Theoretical Particle Physics Group

Dr Stephen West and Dr Nikolas Kauer have been awarded £113,223 from the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) for the project entitled: 'Theoretical Particle Physics Consortium Sussex – Royal Holloway 2014-2017.’

31 Jan 2014

Researchers Manipulate Photons on Silicon Chip, Make Significant Progress Towards Quantum Computer

An international research group of scientists and engineers led by the University of Bristol, UK, has made an important advance towards a quantum computer by shrinking down key components and integrating them onto a silicon microchip.

31 Jan 2014

Astronomers Assemble Spectroscopic Sampling of Ultra-Compact, Burned-Out Elliptical Galaxies

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, and Europe's Herschel Space Observatory, have pieced together the evolutionary sequence of compact elliptical galaxies that erupted and burned out early in the history of the universe.

31 Jan 2014

New, Simpler Way to Achieve Quasi-Phase Matching

Color is strange, mainly due to perception. Setting aside complex brain processes, what we see is the result of light absorption, emission, and reflection. Trees appear green because atoms inside the leaves are emitting and/or reflecting green photons. Semiconductor LED brake lights emit single color light when electrical current passes through the devices.

30 Jan 2014

International Collaboration to Streamline Process to Make Particle Physics Public

Ever since CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland, began its operations at the Large Hadron Collider in 2008, its researchers have pushed for their results to be publicly accessible. The field of high-energy experimental physics is a bit of an anomaly in the scientific arena. It’s a relatively small community—about 15,000 scientists globally—and one that is acutely dependent on collaboration and sharing (about half of those scientists are spread across just the four LHC experiments).

30 Jan 2014

Researchers Discover How Extreme Galaxies Formed

It has long puzzled scientists that there were enormously massive galaxies that were already old and no longer forming new stars in the very early universe, approx. 3 billion years after the Big Bang. Now new research from the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, shows that these massive galaxies were formed by explosive star formation that was set in motion by the collision of galaxies a few billion years after the Big Bang. The results are published in the scientific journal, Astrophysical Journal.

30 Jan 2014

NASA Provides Opportunity to Study Ultra-Cold Quantum Gases in the Microgravity Environment

NASA's Physical Science Research Program will fund seven proposals to conduct physics research using the agency's new microgravity laboratory, which is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in 2016.

30 Jan 2014

Researchers Create Synthetic Magnetic Monopoles

Nearly 85 years after pioneering theoretical physicist Paul Dirac predicted the possibility of their existence, an international collaboration led by Amherst College Physics Professor David S. Hall ’91 and Aalto University (Finland) Academy Research Fellow Mikko Möttönen has created, identified and photographed synthetic magnetic monopoles in Hall’s laboratory on the Amherst campus.

30 Jan 2014

Asteroid Belt Provides New Clues to Tumultuous Past of the Solar System

Our solar system seems like a neat and orderly place, with small, rocky worlds near the Sun and big, gaseous worlds farther out, all eight planets following orbital paths unchanged since they formed.

30 Jan 2014

Quantum Science News

Quantum Dots Enable Creation of Light with High Degree of Linear Polarization

Jolting Complex Materials with Energy Bursts Can Help Study High-Temperature Superconductivity

Researchers Complete Computer Simulations of Early Stages of Planet Formation Around Binary Stars

Simple Way to Slow Down Polar Molecules Offers New Opportunities in Quantum Information Processing

NSA May be Attempting to Exploit Practical Loops in Quantum Key Distribution

Quantum Logic Spectroscopy Extended to Photon-Recoil Spectroscopy

STFC Awards £113,223 to Theoretical Particle Physics Group

Researchers Manipulate Photons on Silicon Chip, Make Significant Progress Towards Quantum Computer

Astronomers Assemble Spectroscopic Sampling of Ultra-Compact, Burned-Out Elliptical Galaxies

New, Simpler Way to Achieve Quasi-Phase Matching

International Collaboration to Streamline Process to Make Particle Physics Public

Researchers Discover How Extreme Galaxies Formed

NASA Provides Opportunity to Study Ultra-Cold Quantum Gases in the Microgravity Environment

Researchers Create Synthetic Magnetic Monopoles

Asteroid Belt Provides New Clues to Tumultuous Past of the Solar System

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