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
An international team comprising researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS), The Australian National University (ANU), the University of Oxford and the University of Queensland have discovered that quantum discord, an easier accessible and more robust phenomenon, can provide a quantum advantage.
By Will Soutter
6 Aug 2012
Physicists from Dartmouth College have reported their work on an exotic particle called Majorana in a paper published in the Physical Review Letters journal.
By Will Soutter
3 Aug 2012
Physicists have detected Higgs excitations near absolute zero. In a low-dimensional system containing ultracold atoms, the team was able to detect Higgs-type excitations at the transition phase of matter.
By Will Soutter
27 Jul 2012
A research team from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has developed a first-of-its-kind monolithic three-dimensional (3D) ion microtrap array that may be scaled up to confine several tens of ion-based quantum bits (qubits).
By Will Soutter
25 Jul 2012
Scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have conducted a new study to assess the relationship between disorder and quantum coherence. This may help in the development of better superconducting magnets and other quantum-based devices.
By Will Soutter
20 Jul 2012
In a paper published in Physical Review Letters, Krishna Kumar and Andrea Pocar, physicists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have described the findings of a test carried out at the Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO) in a salt mine in Carlsbad, New Mexico, as part of a 10-year old claim to witness the ephemeral neutrino-less double-beta decay of Xenon-136.
By Will Soutter
20 Jul 2012
The Centre for Quantum Technologies has launched Quantum Shorts 2012, a competition to create the best short film no longer than 3 minutes based on ideas associated with quantum physics. Top short films will be exhibited on newscientist.com, a well-known science news website.
By Will Soutter
17 Jul 2012