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Holes in Quantum Dots Make Better Spin Qubits for Quantum Computers

Recent research offers a new spin on using nanoscale semiconductor structures to build faster computers and electronics. Literally.

27 Feb 2013

Planets with Life May be Detected near Dying White Dwarf Stars

Even dying stars could host planets with life - and if such life exists, we might be able to detect it within the next decade. This encouraging result comes from a new theoretical study of Earth-like planets orbiting white dwarf stars. Researchers found that we could detect oxygen in the atmosphere of a white dwarf's planet much more easily than for an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star.

26 Feb 2013

Berkeley Lab’s Crystal Growth Facility Can Produce New Quantum Materials

Talk with material scientist Edith Bourret-Courchesne about what it takes to grow and develop useful crystals and a word you will hear repeated often is “patience.” As the leader of a unique crystal growth facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) dedicated to the synthesis of crystals and new materials, patience is more than a virtue, it’s a necessity.

26 Feb 2013

Global Experts Gather at UT Dallas for Symposium on Novel Topological Quantum Matter

For most people, the technical aspects of quantum physics – the behavior of matter and energy on scales as small as an atom or an electron – are enough to make their eyes glaze over.

26 Feb 2013

Closer to Unravelling Mysterious Mechanism Underlying 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. Pinning down one of the possible explanations for HTS—fleeting fluctuations called charge-density waves (CDWs)—could help solve the mystery and pave the way for rapid technological advances.

25 Feb 2013

Novel Quantum Phase Estimation Algorithm Performs a True Calculation

An international research group led by scientists from the University of Bristol, UK, and the University of Queensland, Australia, has demonstrated a quantum algorithm that performs a true calculation for the first time. Quantum algorithms could one day enable the design of new materials, pharmaceuticals or clean energy devices.

25 Feb 2013

University of Manchester’s Collaboration with Fermilab Leads to URA Membership

URA is a consortium of 86 research-intensive universities – primarily based in the United States, but also from Canada, Japan and Italy – established in 1965 for the management and operation of research facilities in the national interest.

25 Feb 2013

Harvard Particle Physics Expert to Speak at Celebrating Einstein Conference

A Harvard physicist, best-selling author and one of Time magazine's "100 most Influential People in the World" will discuss the latest ideas in physics and the role of science in our lives during a March 1 lecture in Bozeman.

25 Feb 2013

Astronomers May Have Uncovered Tantalizing Evidence for Shell of Stars

Peering deep into the vast stellar halo that envelops our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered tantalizing evidence for the possible existence of a shell of stars that are a relic of cannibalism by our Milky Way.

25 Feb 2013

New Technique Based on Fifth Force of Nature May Reveal Details of Deep Earth

Researchers from Amherst College and The University of Texas at Austin have described a new technique that might one day reveal in higher detail than ever before the composition and characteristics of the deep Earth.

25 Feb 2013

Extreme Gravity of Black Holes Causes Accretion Disks and Relativistic Jets to Warp and Bend

Voracious absences at the center of galaxies, black holes shape the growth and death of the stars around them through their powerful gravitational pull and explosive ejections of energy.

25 Feb 2013

ALS Chemical Dynamics Beamline Helps Unravel Ingredients in Solar System Recipe

By studying the origins of different isotope ratios among the elements that make up today’s smorgasbord of planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and interplanetary ice and dust, Mark Thiemens and his colleagues hope to learn how our solar system evolved. Thiemens, Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego, has worked on this problem for over three decades.

22 Feb 2013

Researchers May Have Discovered a “Fifth Force of Nature”

In a breakthrough for the field of particle physics, Professor of Physics Larry Hunter and colleagues at Amherst and The University of Texas at Austin have established new limits on what scientists call “long-range spin-spin interactions” between atomic particles.

22 Feb 2013

Quantum Dots Found to Self-Assemble at Optimal Locations in Nanowires

Surprising breakthrough could bolster quantum photonics, solar cell efficiency

22 Feb 2013

Extremely Dynamic Interactions among Star Clusters Complicates Understanding of Gravity

Gravity remains the dominant force on large astronomical scales, but when it comes to stars in young star clusters the dynamics in these crowded environments cannot be simply explained by the pull of gravity.

22 Feb 2013

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Holes in Quantum Dots Make Better Spin Qubits for Quantum Computers

Planets with Life May be Detected near Dying White Dwarf Stars

Berkeley Lab’s Crystal Growth Facility Can Produce New Quantum Materials

Global Experts Gather at UT Dallas for Symposium on Novel Topological Quantum Matter

Closer to Unravelling Mysterious Mechanism Underlying Superconductivity

Novel Quantum Phase Estimation Algorithm Performs a True Calculation

University of Manchester’s Collaboration with Fermilab Leads to URA Membership

Harvard Particle Physics Expert to Speak at Celebrating Einstein Conference

Astronomers May Have Uncovered Tantalizing Evidence for Shell of Stars

New Technique Based on Fifth Force of Nature May Reveal Details of Deep Earth

Extreme Gravity of Black Holes Causes Accretion Disks and Relativistic Jets to Warp and Bend

ALS Chemical Dynamics Beamline Helps Unravel Ingredients in Solar System Recipe

Researchers May Have Discovered a “Fifth Force of Nature”

Quantum Dots Found to Self-Assemble at Optimal Locations in Nanowires

Extremely Dynamic Interactions among Star Clusters Complicates Understanding of Gravity

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