Move over money, a new currency is helping make the world go round. As increasing volumes of data become accessible, transferable and, therefore, actionable, information is the treasure companies want to amass.
A research group at the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) investigated theoretically the charge-neutral Majorana fermions, and proposed a method for their manipulation.
One of the most deeply rooted concepts in science and in our everyday life is causality; the idea that events in the present are caused by events in the past and, in turn, act as causes for what happens in the future. If an event A is a cause of an effect B, then B cannot be a cause of A.
Through a new Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) awarded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, researchers from Brown University will lead an effort to study new optical materials and their interactions with light quantum scale. The initiative, titled Quantum Metaphotonics and Quantum Metamaterials, will receive $4.5 million over three years, with a possible two-year extension.
The eight academics in the University’s particle physics group conduct experiments using the giant CMS and LHCb detectors, deep underground on the Swiss-French border.
Physicists have directly imaged Landau Levels – the quantum levels that determine electron behaviour in a strong magnetic field – for the first time since they were theoretically conceived of by Nobel prize winner Lev Landau in 1930.
CQT Principal Investigator Alexander Ling and his collaborators have written a feature for the more than 30,000 readers of Optics and Photonics News (OPN), a monthly magazine distributed to members of the Optical Society of America.
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