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Fluid Systems Dynamics Mimics Quantum Mechanics

The central mystery of quantum mechanics is that small chunks of matter sometimes seem to behave like particles, sometimes like waves. For most of the past century, the prevailing explanation of this conundrum has been what’s called the “Copenhagen interpretation” — which holds that, in some sense, a single particle really is a wave, smeared out across the universe, that collapses into a determinate location only when observed.

15 Sep 2014

ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor Designated as a Nuclear Historic Landmark

The High Flux Isotope Reactor, or HFIR, now in its 48th year of providing neutrons for research and isotope production at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been designated a Nuclear Historic Landmark by the American Nuclear Society (ANS).

12 Sep 2014

Perimeter Institute Public Lecture Series to Feature Live Webcast Talks with Pre-Eminent Scientists

“You are each a participant in this adventure of science.” With those words, Sylvester James Gates Jr., renowned physicist and member of President Barack Obama’s Scientific Advisory Council, captured the spirit and the future of the Perimeter Institute (PI) Public Lecture Series.

12 Sep 2014

Sound Used to Communicate with Artificial Atom

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology are first to show the use of sound to communicate with an artificial atom. They can thereby demonstrate phenomena from quantum physics with sound taking on the role of light. The results will be published in the journal Science.

12 Sep 2014

Researchers Find Evidence of Hot Binary Companion Star to a Yellow Supergiant Star

A team led by Gastón Folatelli at the Kavli IPMU, the University of Tokyo, has found evidence of a hot binary companion star to a yellow supergiant star, which had become a bright supernova. The existence of the companion star had been predicted by the same team on the basis of numerical calculations.

12 Sep 2014

Researchers Discover Simpler Method to Run a Quantum Algorithm

Theories show how computing devices that operate according to quantum mechanics can solve problems that conventional (classical) computers, including super computers, can never solve. These theories have been experimentally tested for small-scale quantum systems, but the world is waiting for the first definitive demonstration of a quantum device that beats a classical computer.

12 Sep 2014

Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array Completes High Frequency Observing Campaign

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has reached a major milestone by extending its vision fully into the realm of the submillimeter, the wavelengths of cosmic light that hold intriguing information about the cold, dark, and distant Universe.

12 Sep 2014

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Has a Unique, Multifaceted World

High-resolution images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko reveal a unique, multifaceted world. ESA's Rosetta spacecraft arrived at its destination about a month ago and is currently accompanying the comet as it progresses on its route toward the inner solar system.

11 Sep 2014

NSF Awards Grant to Study How Three Elements in Early Universe Became a Menagerie

In the beginning, all was hydrogen – and helium, plus a bit of lithium. Three elements in all. Today's universe, however, has nearly a hundred naturally occurring elements, with thousands of variants (isotopes), and more likely to come.

11 Sep 2014

Scientists Identify How Reconnection Transforms Magnetic Energy into Explosive Particle Energy

Magnetic reconnection can trigger geomagnetic storms that disrupt cell phone service, damage satellites and black out power grids. But how reconnection, in which the magnetic field lines in plasma snap apart and violently reconnect, transforms magnetic energy into explosive particle energy remains a major unsolved problem in plasma astrophysics. Magnetic field lines represent the direction, and indicate the shape, of magnetic fields.

11 Sep 2014

Two Simple Quantities Can Unify Quasar Phenomena

Quasars are supermassive black holes that live at the center of distant massive galaxies. They shine as the most luminous beacons in the sky across the entire electromagnetic spectrum by rapidly accreting matter into their gravitationally inescapable centers.

11 Sep 2014

Electrons Cool to -228°C When Passed Through a Quantum Well

A team of researchers has discovered a way to cool electrons to −228 °C without external means and at room temperature, an advancement that could enable electronic devices to function with very little energy.

11 Sep 2014

Astronomer Define 'Venus Zone' Around Stars

San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane and a team of researchers presented today the definition of a "Venus Zone," the area around a star in which a planet is likely to exhibit the unlivable conditions found on the planet Venus.

11 Sep 2014

VLT Measures Lithium in Messier 54 Globular Star Cluster

The Milky Way galaxy is orbited by more than 150 globular star clusters, which are balls of hundreds of thousands of old stars dating back to the formation of the galaxy. One of these, along with several others in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer), was found in the late eighteenth century by the French comet hunter Charles Messier and given the designation Messier 54.

11 Sep 2014

Researchers Uncover New Method to Detect Elusive Majorana Particles

Research published today in the journal Nature Communications uncovers a new method to detect Majorana particles, a key element for next-generation quantum computing.

11 Sep 2014

Quantum Science News

Fluid Systems Dynamics Mimics Quantum Mechanics

ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor Designated as a Nuclear Historic Landmark

Perimeter Institute Public Lecture Series to Feature Live Webcast Talks with Pre-Eminent Scientists

Sound Used to Communicate with Artificial Atom

Researchers Find Evidence of Hot Binary Companion Star to a Yellow Supergiant Star

Researchers Discover Simpler Method to Run a Quantum Algorithm

Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array Completes High Frequency Observing Campaign

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Has a Unique, Multifaceted World

NSF Awards Grant to Study How Three Elements in Early Universe Became a Menagerie

Scientists Identify How Reconnection Transforms Magnetic Energy into Explosive Particle Energy

Two Simple Quantities Can Unify Quasar Phenomena

Electrons Cool to -228°C When Passed Through a Quantum Well

Astronomer Define 'Venus Zone' Around Stars

VLT Measures Lithium in Messier 54 Globular Star Cluster

Researchers Uncover New Method to Detect Elusive Majorana Particles

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

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