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Researchers Attempt to Reconcile Classical and Quantum Mechanics

Searching for common elements in seemingly incompatible scientific theories may lead to the discovery of new ones that revolutionize our understanding of the world.

31 Jan 2013

New Funding to Help Advance Accurate Graphene-Based Quantum Standards

NPL is part of the Graphene Flagship consortium that has been funded half a billion euros by the European Commission to develop the potential of graphene along with related materials for applications in computing, batteries and sensors.

29 Jan 2013

Mathematical Model to Explain Dark Matter

The universe abounds with dark matter. Nobody knows what it consists of. UiO physicists have now launched a very hard mathematical explanation that could solve the mystery once and for all.

28 Jan 2013

Two CQT Researchers Receive Singapore NRF Fellowship

Two CQT researchers have today been named recipients of Singapore's prestigious NRF Fellowship.

28 Jan 2013

Researchers Control Intensity of Quantum Dot's Fluorescence

A team of researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has shown that by bringing gold nanoparticles close to the dots and using a DNA template to control the distances, the intensity of a quantum dot's fluorescence can be predictably increased or decreased.* This breakthrough opens a potential path to using quantum dots as a component in better photodetectors, chemical sensors and nanoscale lasers.

28 Jan 2013

Single-Photon Detectors Integrated with Nanophotonic Chips for Quantum Communication

The detector combines near-unity detection efficiency with high timing resolution and has a very low error rate. The results have been published by Nature Communications (doi:10.1038/ncomms2307).

28 Jan 2013

Austrian Physicist May Have Contributed to Einstein’s Equation

Two American physicists outline the role played by Austrian physicist Friedrich Hasenöhrl in establishing the proportionality between the energy (E) of a quantity of matter with its mass (m) in a cavity filled with radiation. In a paper about to be published in EPJ H, Stephen Boughn from Haverford College in Pensylvannia and Tony Rothman from Princeton University in New Jersey argue how Hasenöhrl's work, for which he now receives little credit, may have contributed to the famous equation E=mc2.

From Springer - Science and Technology Publishers 28 Jan 2013

Study Demonstrates Enormous Potential of Carbon Nanotubes with PbS Quantum Dots

By achieving the synthesis of a novel nanohybrid structure by means of the pulsed laser ablation (PLA) technique, Professor My Ali El Khakani and his team paved the way for a new generation of optoelectronic materials.

28 Jan 2013

Laser Pulse-Generated Hot Electrons Cause Ultrafast Demagnetization

For purposes of their research, the scientists irradiated two separate layered systems with ultrashort laser pulses on the order of just one hundred femtoseconds (10-15 s). One sample consisted essentially of a single thin layer of ferromagnetic nickel. By contrast, a second sample of this same nickel material was coated with a non-magnetic layer of gold.

28 Jan 2013

Novel Scheme to Precisely Accelerate Neutral Particles

Charged particle accelerators have become crucially important to modern day life, be it in health care for cancer treatment or for answering important fundamental scientific questions like the existence of the HIGGS boson, the so called 'God particle'. In a simple picture, charged particles like electrons and protons are accelerated between two end plates across which an electrical voltage is applied.

28 Jan 2013

Astronomers Construct 3D View of Nova Remnant

In 1901 the star GK Persei gave off a powerful explosion that has not stopped growing and astonishing ever since. Now a team of Spanish and Estonian astronomers has reconstructed the journey of the emitted gas in 3D which, contrary to predictions, has hardly slowed down its speed of up to 1,000 km/s after all this time.

25 Jan 2013

NASA Joins ESA to Investigate Mysteries of Dark Matter and Dark Energy

NASA has joined the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.

25 Jan 2013

Pulsar Flips between Extreme States

A pulsar that is able, without warning, to dramatically change the way in which it shines has been identified by an international team including scientists from The University of Manchester.

25 Jan 2013

CQT Congratulates Winners of Quantum Shorts 2012 Film Competition

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Quantum Shorts 2012 film competition, organised by the Centre for Quantum Technologies in partnership with New Scientist magazine. The prizes were announced on newscientist.com on 23 January.

25 Jan 2013

Science China Publishes Special Issue on Sprintronics

We invited some Chinese experts and researchers in the field of spintronics to write a series of review articles in this special issue, in order to assist undergraduate, master's and doctoral students, as well as young researchers to understand this fast growing field. This issue was published in Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, 2013, 56(1): 1-246

24 Jan 2013

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Researchers Attempt to Reconcile Classical and Quantum Mechanics

New Funding to Help Advance Accurate Graphene-Based Quantum Standards

Mathematical Model to Explain Dark Matter

Two CQT Researchers Receive Singapore NRF Fellowship

Researchers Control Intensity of Quantum Dot's Fluorescence

Single-Photon Detectors Integrated with Nanophotonic Chips for Quantum Communication

Austrian Physicist May Have Contributed to Einstein’s Equation

Study Demonstrates Enormous Potential of Carbon Nanotubes with PbS Quantum Dots

Laser Pulse-Generated Hot Electrons Cause Ultrafast Demagnetization

Novel Scheme to Precisely Accelerate Neutral Particles

Astronomers Construct 3D View of Nova Remnant

NASA Joins ESA to Investigate Mysteries of Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Pulsar Flips between Extreme States

CQT Congratulates Winners of Quantum Shorts 2012 Film Competition

Science China Publishes Special Issue on Sprintronics

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