Slovakia has made significant advances both in science and technology and its economic development. The government's 2011-2013 innovation policy concentrates on increasing collaboration between the private and public sector for encouraging science education and innovation. The Slovak Academy of Sciences is supporting a wide range of projects, including those in the quantum field.
By Will Soutter
21 Aug 2012
Quantum computers are capable of achieving processing speeds much greater than current generation of computers. Though they employ quantum mechanisms, quantum computers will still be susceptible to external influences.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
17 Aug 2012
The concept of quantum entanglement, which is defined as the correlation between two quantum particles in space, has got more interesting owing to the research carried out at the Institute of Quantum Computing by postdoctoral fellow Eduardo Martin-Martinez.
By Will Soutter
17 Aug 2012
Researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) of the U.S. Department of Energy and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have for the first time directly observed distinctly quantum optical phenomena, namely amplification and squeezing, in an optomechanical system.
By Will Soutter
17 Aug 2012
Recently, researchers performing proton collision at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe provided proof for the existence of a sought-after particle known as the Higgs boson, which is believed to be responsible for the mass of matter.
By Will Soutter
16 Aug 2012
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated the accurate control of rapid acceleration and instantaneous stops of their beryllium ions in an ion trap.
By Will Soutter
14 Aug 2012
In a study submitted to Physical Review D, a journal of the American Physical Society, astrophysicists from the University of California, Irvine, have discovered that gamma-ray photons originating from the Milky Way galactic center are consistent with the interesting leeway that dark-matter particles are destructing each other in space.
By Will Soutter
14 Aug 2012
Experimentations utilizing heavy ions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have made significant advancements in understanding the primordial universe.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
14 Aug 2012
A new quantum algorithm for data analysis has been demonstrated by a team of researchers.
By Will Soutter
13 Aug 2012
When bar magnets with north and south magnetic poles are sawed in half, the resultant pieces of the magnet also possesses a north and a south pole. Magnetic monopoles were not possible. However, recently, monopoles in the form of "quasiparticles" have been demonstrated in laboratories. These particles are the collective excitations that occur among many atoms.
By Will Soutter
10 Aug 2012
Astronomers at the ETH Zürich and the University of Zürich along with a team of international researchers have discovered large quantities of dark invisible matter in close proximity to the sun. It has been believed till now that a massive “halo” of dark matter surrounds the Milky Way Galaxy, but these observations contradict this theory.
By Will Soutter
10 Aug 2012
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has demonstrated that a new technique for splitting photon beams could tackle a basic physical barrier in electronic data transmission.
By Will Soutter
10 Aug 2012
A research group comprising Daniel Tasca, Matthew Edgar and Professor Miles Padgett from the School of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Glasgow has for the first time captured imagery of a quantum phenomenon called ‘quantum entanglement’ utilizing a highly-sensitive camera.
By Will Soutter
9 Aug 2012
A research study carried out by an international team comprising Dr. Shigeki Onoda from the Condensed Matter Theory Lab at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Dr. Yixi Su from the Jülich Center for Neutron Science JCNS-FRM II at Forschungszentrum Jülich and Dr. Lieh-Jeng Chang belonging to the Japan Atomic Energy Agency and Physics Department of the National Cheng Kung University has yielded nominal evidence of Higgs transition of monopoles of electron spins in a magnet, Yb2Ti2O7 at an absolute temperature of 0.21 K.
By Will Soutter
8 Aug 2012
A team of scientists from the Quantum ICT Research Institute of Tamagawa University in Japan has reported that the researchers have demonstrated the limit and incompleteness of the security theory in quantum cryptography or quantum key distribution.
By Will Soutter
7 Aug 2012