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Ion Trap Technology Considered as a Scalable Option for Quantum Information Processing

Recently Science Magazine invited JQI fellow Chris Monroe and Duke Professor Jungsang Kim to speculate on ion trap technology as a scalable option for quantum information processing.

8 Mar 2013

Naturally Occurring Topological Insulator Retrieved from Abandoned Gold Mine

In a step toward understanding and exploiting an exotic form of matter that has been sparking excitement for potential applications in a new genre of supercomputers, scientists are reporting the first identification of a naturally occurring "topological insulator" (TI). Their report on discovery of the material, retrieved from an abandoned gold mine in the Czech Republic, appears in the ACS journal Nano Letters.

8 Mar 2013

Findings Dispel Firewall Paradox about Large Black Holes

Research by scientists at the University of York has revealed new insights into the life and death of black holes.

8 Mar 2013

X-ray Telescopes Help Determine Relation between Radius and Mass of Neutron Stars

Neutron stars, the ultra-dense cores left behind after massive stars collapse, contain the densest matter known in the Universe outside of a black hole. New results from Chandra and other X-ray telescopes have provided one of the most reliable determinations yet of the relation between the radius of a neutron star and its mass.

7 Mar 2013

Natural Lens in Space Magnifies Light from Very Distant Background Galaxies

The gravitational field surrounding this massive cluster of galaxies, Abell 68, acts as a natural lens in space to brighten and magnify the light coming from very distant background galaxies.

6 Mar 2013

Clues to How Gas Giant Planets May Have Formed and Evolved

New theoretical modeling by Carnegie’s Alan Boss provides clues to how the gas giant planets in our solar system—Jupiter and Saturn—might have formed and evolved. His work was published recently by The Astrophysical Journal.

6 Mar 2013

Texas A&M Hosts Workshop on Dark Matter

Scientists from around the world will join Texas A&M University's top experts in high-energy physics and astrophysics for a three-day workshop beginning Friday (March 8) that will delve into dark matter, the unknown substance that makes up nearly a quarter of the universe.

6 Mar 2013

Van Allen Radiation Belts Store Mysterious Zone of High-Energy Electrons

U.S. researchers, including a trio from Los Alamos National Laboratory, have witnessed the mysterious appearance of a relatively long-lived zone of high-energy electrons stored between Earth's Van Allen radiation belts.

5 Mar 2013

Ice Irradiated to Simulate Damage from Cosmic Rays

Behind locked doors, in a lab built like a bomb shelter, Perry Gerakines makes something ordinary yet truly alien: ice. This isn't the ice of snowflakes or ice cubes. No, this ice needs such intense cold and low pressure to form that the right conditions rarely, if ever, occur naturally on Earth. And when Gerakines makes the ice, he must keep the layer so microscopically thin it is dwarfed by a grain of pollen.

5 Mar 2013

Charge-Density Waves Not the Mechanism behind High-Temperature Superconductivity

Identifying the mysterious mechanism underlying high-temperature superconductivity (HTS) remains one of the most important and tantalizing puzzles in physics. This remarkable phenomenon allows electric current to pass with perfect efficiency through materials chilled to subzero temperatures, and it may play an essential role in revolutionizing the entire electricity chain, from generation to transmission and grid-scale storage.

5 Mar 2013

Light Manipulated on Superconducting Chips to Build Quantum Computers

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara are manipulating light on superconducting chips, and forging new pathways to building the quantum devices of the future –– including super-fast and powerful quantum computers.

5 Mar 2013

IU Quantum Hadrodynamics Physicist to be Honored with One-Day Symposium

The late Indiana University physicist Brian David Serot -- a four-time winner of the IU Trustees' Teaching Award still remembered for his calm rationality and encyclopedic knowledge of the field -- will be honored with a one-day symposium March 6 at IU's Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter.

4 Mar 2013

Researchers Overcome Important Challenges of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

Researchers at the University of Rochester and the University of Ottawa have applied a recently developed technique to directly measure for the first time the polarization states of light. Their work both overcomes some important challenges of Heisenberg's famous Uncertainty Principle and also is applicable to qubits, the building blocks of quantum information theory.

4 Mar 2013

Artificially Engineered Multilayer Material Could Lead to Breakthroughs in Superconductivity Research

A multi-university team of researchers has artificially engineered a unique multilayer material that could lead to breakthroughs in both superconductivity research and in real-world applications.

4 Mar 2013

Discovery of Quarks Changes Approach to Particle Physics

Honeywell brought Professor Jerome I. Friedman , Nobel laureate in physics, to address and interact with the students and faculty of the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California (UABC) in Mexicali, Mexico, as part of its global Honeywell Initiative for Science & Engineering (HISE) program today.

2 Mar 2013

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Ion Trap Technology Considered as a Scalable Option for Quantum Information Processing

Naturally Occurring Topological Insulator Retrieved from Abandoned Gold Mine

Findings Dispel Firewall Paradox about Large Black Holes

X-ray Telescopes Help Determine Relation between Radius and Mass of Neutron Stars

Natural Lens in Space Magnifies Light from Very Distant Background Galaxies

Clues to How Gas Giant Planets May Have Formed and Evolved

Texas A&M Hosts Workshop on Dark Matter

Van Allen Radiation Belts Store Mysterious Zone of High-Energy Electrons

Ice Irradiated to Simulate Damage from Cosmic Rays

Charge-Density Waves Not the Mechanism behind High-Temperature Superconductivity

Light Manipulated on Superconducting Chips to Build Quantum Computers

IU Quantum Hadrodynamics Physicist to be Honored with One-Day Symposium

Researchers Overcome Important Challenges of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

Artificially Engineered Multilayer Material Could Lead to Breakthroughs in Superconductivity Research

Discovery of Quarks Changes Approach to Particle Physics

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