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British Columbia Discovery Fund Invests in Quantum Computing Company D-Wave Systems

British Columbia Discovery Fund (VCC) Inc. is very pleased to announce that it has invested $2.0 million in D-Wave Systems, Inc. as the lead order that initiated a $30 million round of equity funding for D-Wave. Bezos Expeditions and In-Q-Tel (IQT) have also joined the investment round. Bezos Expeditions is the personal investment company of Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Inc. IQT is the strategic investment firm that delivers innovative technology solutions in support of the missions of the U.S. intelligence community.

16 Nov 2012

New Theory to Avoid and Reverse Heating Effect in Quantum Cascade Lasers

Since its invention 50 years ago, laser light has conquered our daily life. Lasers of varying wave lengths and power are used in many parts of our life, from consumer electronics to telecommunication and medicine. However, not all wave lengths have been equally well researched.

15 Nov 2012

Meson Decay Demonstrates Time Flows in Preferred Direction

Bending light around corners is usually done with mirrors, but now scientists have realized self-bending light beams that propagate along curved paths.

15 Nov 2012

Cambridge Scientists at LHC Observe Very Rare Particle Decay

The result is very damaging to new theories like the extremely popular Supersymmetry.

15 Nov 2012

X-ray Laser Pulses Can Strip Electrons from Atoms to Create Ions with Strong Charges

Researchers using the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have found a way to strip most of the electrons from xenon atoms, creating a "supercharged," strongly positive state at energies previously thought too low.

14 Nov 2012

Tetrapod Quantum Dots with Higher Brightness Improve Biochemical Assays

Millions of laboratory tests and biological assays are conducted every year to explore cellular processes. Quantum Materials Corporation has now developed tetrapod quantum dots, improved fluorescent markers that can more effectively gain knowledge of how body systems function and chronic conditions and diseases such as cancer metabolize and impact health and longevity.

14 Nov 2012

Quark Gluon Plasma Emits Ultra Short Laser Pulses

Heavy ion collisions at CERN should be able to produce the shortest light pulses ever created. This was demonstrated by computer simulations at the Vienna University of Technology. The pulses are so short that they cannot even be measured by today's technological equipment. Now, a method has been proposed to create the world's most precise stopwatch for the world's shortest light pulses, using a detector which is going to be installed at CERN in 2018.

14 Nov 2012

Researchers Amplify Noisy Quantum State of Single Photon without Adding Noise

Research physicists have demonstrated the first device capable of amplifying the information in a single particle of light without adding noise.

14 Nov 2012

Quasars Probe Dark Energy

BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, is mapping a huge volume of space to measure the role of dark energy in the evolution of the universe. BOSS is the largest program of the third Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) and has just announced the first major result of a new mapping technique, based on the spectra of over 48,000 quasars with redshifts up to 3.5, meaning that light left these active galaxies up to 11.5 billion years in the past.

14 Nov 2012

Winner of Massey Contest Gets a Trip to Perimeter Institute and CERN

Here’s an opportunity to win a trip for two for a six-day, two-continent science safari to some of the world’s leading scientific centres with the Massey Contest.

9 Nov 2012

Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Materials for UBC

The University of British Columbia will be home to two more Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC), valued at $20-million over seven years, in the areas of quantum materials and devices and digital media research and innovation.

9 Nov 2012

CdSe Quantum Dots and Nickel Catalysts Improve Light-Driven Hydrogen-Production Systems

Hydrogen is an attractive fuel source because it can easily be converted into electric energy and gives off no greenhouse emissions. A group of chemists at the University of Rochester is adding to its appeal by increasing the output and lowering the cost of current light-driven hydrogen-production systems.

9 Nov 2012

Scholar Wins CMS Achievement Award for CERN Hadron Calorimeter Subdetector

Sudan Paramesvaran, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Riverside, has won the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) achievement award for the Hadron Calorimeter subdetector at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland.

9 Nov 2012

Gold Nanospheres Generate a Quantum Kiss

Researchers from the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) and the Materials Physics Center in Donostia-San Sebastián (CFM) have observed for the first time, with optical methods, the quantum regime in the interaction between nano-sized spheres of gold. This quantum regime has been identified thanks to the change of colour of the gap or empty space between these particles when they are at distances of less than one nanometre. This work, published in Nature journal, enables literally “seeing” a quantum kiss between nanoparticles.

8 Nov 2012

Quantum Weirdness Observed in Computer Chip Nanoelectronics

To build the computer chips of the future, designers will need to understand how an electrical charge behaves when it is confined to metal wires only a few atom-widths in diameter.

7 Nov 2012

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British Columbia Discovery Fund Invests in Quantum Computing Company D-Wave Systems

New Theory to Avoid and Reverse Heating Effect in Quantum Cascade Lasers

Meson Decay Demonstrates Time Flows in Preferred Direction

Cambridge Scientists at LHC Observe Very Rare Particle Decay

X-ray Laser Pulses Can Strip Electrons from Atoms to Create Ions with Strong Charges

Tetrapod Quantum Dots with Higher Brightness Improve Biochemical Assays

Quark Gluon Plasma Emits Ultra Short Laser Pulses

Researchers Amplify Noisy Quantum State of Single Photon without Adding Noise

Quasars Probe Dark Energy

Winner of Massey Contest Gets a Trip to Perimeter Institute and CERN

Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Materials for UBC

CdSe Quantum Dots and Nickel Catalysts Improve Light-Driven Hydrogen-Production Systems

Scholar Wins CMS Achievement Award for CERN Hadron Calorimeter Subdetector

Gold Nanospheres Generate a Quantum Kiss

Quantum Weirdness Observed in Computer Chip Nanoelectronics

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