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Atom-Specific Probing of Frontier-Orbital Interactions Enables Correlating Quantum-Chemical Properties with Reactivity

They developed their own experiment for this investigation at the Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California, which provided time resolutions down to 100 femtoseconds, and the synchrotron radiation source BESSY II of Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin.

3 Apr 2015

Bristol Researchers Demonstrate Quantum Teleportation on a Silicon Chip

The core circuits of quantum teleportation, which generate and detect quantum entanglement, have been successfully integrated into a photonic chip by an international team of scientists from the universities of Bristol, Tokyo, Southampton and NTT Device Technology Laboratories.

3 Apr 2015

Behaviour of Quantum Crystals Can Help Answer Fundamental Questions

It is a situation familiar from one’s own living environment: relations between neighbours can be intense, yet also characterised by sensitivities. Complex quantum systems can be imagined in a similar way – especially when magnetism is involved.

3 Apr 2015

NASA's Curiosity Rover Reaches Martian Site with Two-Tone Mineral Veins

Two-tone mineral veins at a site NASA's Curiosity rover has reached by climbing a layered Martian mountain offer clues about multiple episodes of fluid movement. These episodes occurred later than the wet environmental conditions that formed lake-bed deposits the rover examined at the mountain's base.

2 Apr 2015

Astrophysicists Identify Galaxies Clumping Together Into Larger Galaxy Clusters

A discovery by a team of astrophysicists including UBC researchers promises to have major implications for the understanding of how structures in the universe formed 10 billion years ago. Hidden within images of some of the oldest light in the universe, the team identified what they believe are galaxies clumping together into the larger galaxy clusters we know today.

2 Apr 2015

Macroscopic Mechanical Resonators Manipulated in the Quantum Regime

Cooling of macroscopic and mesoscopic objects to the quantum ground states are of great interests not only for fundamental study of quantum theory but also for the broad applications in quantum information processing and high-precision metrology. However, the cooling limit is subjected to the quantum backaction, and ground state cooling is possible only in the resolved sideband limit, which requires the resonance frequency of the mechanical motion to be larger than the cavity decay rate.

2 Apr 2015

RR Lyrae Stars May Not Be Lonely

Many, perhaps most, stars in the Universe live their lives with companions by their sides – in so-called binary systems. Until recently, however, the ancient RR Lyrae stars appeared, for mysterious reasons, to live their lives all alone. A recent study led by Chilean astronomers shows that RR Lyrae stars may not be as lonely as previously thought. The new research is published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters.

2 Apr 2015

Cosmologists Discover Possible Precursors of Present Day Galaxy Clusters

By combining observations of the distant Universe made with ESA's Herschel and Planck space observatories, cosmologists have discovered what could be the precursors of the vast clusters of galaxies that we see today.

1 Apr 2015

Gas Outflows Create Hourglass Structure in Massive-Star Forming Region

A research group led by Aya Higuchi, a researcher at Ibaraki University, conducted observations of the massive-star forming region IRAS 16547-4247 with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).

1 Apr 2015

NSF Announces Awards for Five Physics Frontiers Centers

Whether they are describing the physics of how multicellular groups form from individual living cells, assembling the building blocks for quantum computing and quantum engineering, or investigating how massive elements came into being after our universe's beginning, the National Science Foundation's (NSF) newest Physics Frontiers Center awardees represent the leading edge of physics research.

1 Apr 2015

Planck and Herschel Missions Identify Oldest, Rarest Galaxy Clusters in the Distant Cosmos

One telescope finds the treasure chest, and the other narrows in on the gold coins. Data from two European Space Telescope missions, Planck and Herschel, have together identified some of the oldest and rarest clusters of galaxies in the distant cosmos.

1 Apr 2015

Direct Coupling of Quantum Dots and Trapped Ions May Help Advance Development of Quantum Computers

Physicists at the Universities of Bonn and Cambridge have succeeded in linking two completely different quantum systems to one another. In doing so, they have taken an important step forward on the way to a quantum computer.

1 Apr 2015

Escaping Limitations of Quantum Physics to Obtain Precise Measurements of Ultra-Small Magnetic Fields

There are electrical signals in the nervous system, the brain and throughout the human body and there are tiny magnetic fields associated with these signals that could be important for medical science.

1 Apr 2015

Leading Researchers Take Part in Quantum Symposium at Singapore

A Quantum Symposium held 26-27 March at the National University of Singapore brought together leading researchers in quantum technologies from the UK and Singapore. The event was jointly organised by the Centre for Quantum Technologies and the British High Commission's Science and Innovation team.

31 Mar 2015

NSF Awards New Five-Year Grant for Joint Quantum Institute's Physics Frontier Center

The National Science Foundation (NSF) renewed its support for the Joint Quantum Institute's (JQI) Physics Frontier Center with a new five-year grant. JQI is a partnership between the University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with support from the Laboratory for Physical Sciences.

31 Mar 2015

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Atom-Specific Probing of Frontier-Orbital Interactions Enables Correlating Quantum-Chemical Properties with Reactivity

Bristol Researchers Demonstrate Quantum Teleportation on a Silicon Chip

Behaviour of Quantum Crystals Can Help Answer Fundamental Questions

NASA's Curiosity Rover Reaches Martian Site with Two-Tone Mineral Veins

Astrophysicists Identify Galaxies Clumping Together Into Larger Galaxy Clusters

Macroscopic Mechanical Resonators Manipulated in the Quantum Regime

RR Lyrae Stars May Not Be Lonely

Cosmologists Discover Possible Precursors of Present Day Galaxy Clusters

Gas Outflows Create Hourglass Structure in Massive-Star Forming Region

NSF Announces Awards for Five Physics Frontiers Centers

Planck and Herschel Missions Identify Oldest, Rarest Galaxy Clusters in the Distant Cosmos

Direct Coupling of Quantum Dots and Trapped Ions May Help Advance Development of Quantum Computers

Escaping Limitations of Quantum Physics to Obtain Precise Measurements of Ultra-Small Magnetic Fields

Leading Researchers Take Part in Quantum Symposium at Singapore

NSF Awards New Five-Year Grant for Joint Quantum Institute's Physics Frontier Center

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