Stephanie Wehner from the Centre for Quantum Technologies together with Omar Fawzi from McGill University, Canada, and Mario Berta from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, have explored a new method to create randomness, hypothesizing quantum analogues of classical randomness extractors for the first time.
By Will Soutter
1 Oct 2012
Researchers consider quantum dots to hold great potential for technological applications. The nanoscale semiconductor materials are easy to synthesize and their behavior is akin to that of single atoms. In order to capitalize on the unique properties of quantum dots, it is essential to understand the behavior of electrons contained inside quantum dots.
By Will Soutter
29 Sep 2012
Over nine years of research to conclusively identify element 113 has borne fruit.
By Will Soutter
27 Sep 2012
The new headquarters of the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo was opened on 21, September 2012. Over 1,000 guests and dignitaries attended the opening ceremony of the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre.
By Will Soutter
24 Sep 2012
A Japanese-Australian collaborative research team has broken down the standard limits for ultra-precise measurement by exploiting quantum light waves in a different way.
By Will Soutter
24 Sep 2012
In an experiment conducted at the Microkelvin Laboratory at the University of Florida, an international research team has overturned an accepted thumb rule in quantum theory to predict the conditions required for the occurrence of transition between two quantum states.
By Will Soutter
21 Sep 2012
A team of scientists from the University College, London, and University of Melbourne, headed by Professor Andrew Dzurak and Dr Andrea Morello from the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at University of New South Wales (UNSW), has developed the first functional quantum bit (qubit) based on a single silicon atom.
By Will Soutter
21 Sep 2012
A group of researchers have collaborated to measure the effects of layers on super-heavy elements. These elements have not yet been discovered in nature. So far, they have been created by bombarding elements in particle accelerators. These elements have an atomic number greater than Z=103, which is higher than the element lawrence.
By Will Soutter
20 Sep 2012
At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2012 held in Tianjin, China, Professor Jeremy O’Brien, Director of the Centre for Quantum Photonics at the University of Bristol, discussed about the future of information and communications technology (ICT) and how quantum technologies revolution will impact the future economics and society.
By Will Soutter
15 Sep 2012
At the CERN Council Open Symposium on the European Strategy for Particle Physics in Krakow, around 500 particle physicists have been discussing the long-term prospect of the field.
By Will Soutter
14 Sep 2012
The University of Waterloo has reported that the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre (QNC) will be officially opened on September 21, 2012, in the new building at the center of the university campus.
By G.P. Thomas
13 Sep 2012
A research group based at Tampere University of Technology (TUT) has been awarded €1.6 million grant by the Academy of Finland under its ‘Programmable Materials’ funding scheme.
By G.P. Thomas
13 Sep 2012
A two-year study conducted by a team of astronomers from the University of Portsmouth and LMU University Munich indicate the probability of existence of dark energy in the universe to be 99.9996%.
By Will Soutter
13 Sep 2012
Nuclear Fusion holds great potential as a sustainable and limitless source of energy. However, lack of knowledge of the operating limits of materials used to build reactors has significantly hampered commercialization of nuclear fusion energy.
By Will Soutter
13 Sep 2012
A previous study carried out in 2010 at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) located in Japan demonstrated the transition of iron telluride compounds to superconducting state when they were boiled in alcoholic beverages.
By Will Soutter
13 Sep 2012