A study on atomic scale magnetism being conducted at EPFL’s Laboratory for Quantum Magnetism (LQM) may provide researchers a tool to explore new high-temperature superconducting materials that hold potential in lossless electricity transmission.
By Will Soutter
6 Sep 2012
A research team comprising Robert Nemiroff and colleagues from the Michigan Technological University has demonstrated that the spacetime may not be as foamy as believed by some researchers.
By Will Soutter
24 Aug 2012
In the latest quest to understand the nature and the origins of the Universe, researchers have suggested that the start of the Universe may be more like freezing of water into ice rather than according to the Big Bang theory.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
21 Aug 2012
Scientists have revealed how smaller molecules can be imprisoned within a carbon molecule. This allows the study of wave-like behavior which is considered to be a fundamental property of matter.
By Will Soutter
21 Aug 2012
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