The Hall effect has been observed for the very first time in a gas of ultracold atoms by researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This discovery will enable scientists to enhance their knowledge about the physics of the quantum Hall effect and superfluidity.
By Will Soutter
20 Jun 2012
Daniel Grumiller and Gabriela Mocanu, researchers at the Vienna University of Technology, have devised a new technique to demonstrate the existence of theoretical ‘axions,’ which may encircle a black hole and extort energy from it. This may result in the emission of gravity waves, which can then be calculated.
By Will Soutter
19 Jun 2012
Three theorists, of which one was from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, have shown how it will be possible to simulate high-energy complex collisions of subatomic particles using future quantum computers.
By Will Soutter
13 Jun 2012
A team of researchers that include Silvano Garnerone, an IQC postdoctoral fellow, has shown a quantum speed-up to the PageRank algorithm, a key algorithm utilized by Google for ranking webpages based on their importance in the webgraph.
By Will Soutter
12 Jun 2012
On behalf of OPERA, LVD, ICARUS and Borexino located at Gran Sasso, Sergio Bertolucci, Research Director at CERN, has reported the results from CERN on a neutrino time of flight to the INFN Gran Sasso Laboratory, at the 25th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics in Kyoto.
By Will Soutter
12 Jun 2012
Mike Thewalt of Simon Fraser University and researchers at Oxford University and in Germany are one step closer towards the realization of quantum computers by harnessing the novel properties of their ultrapure and highly enriched silicon.
By Will Soutter
8 Jun 2012
University of Bonn researchers have shown how one atom can be split into two halves, taken apart and then joined together again. The researchers strived to build quantum mechanics bridges by making the atom come into contact with adjacent atoms while it is being taken apart so that it functions like a bridge spanning between two pillars. The results are published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” journal.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
7 Jun 2012
Stanford researchers have developed a dipolar quantum fermionic gas, paving the way for innovations in room-temperature superconductors and quantum microscopy.
In quantum physics physical processes in condensed matter and other many-body systems can often be described with quasiparticles. In Innsbruck, for the first time Rudolf Grimm’s team of physicists has succeeded in experimentally realizing a new quasiparticle - a repulsive polaron - in an ultracold quantum gas. The scientists have published their results in the online issue of the journal Nature.
The STRINGS 2012 conference in Munich focuses on the latest developments in string theory, exploring its role in unifying fundamental forces and dimensions.
Francesca Ferlaino’s research team at the University of Innsbruck is the first to successfully create a condensate of the exotic element erbium. The Innsbruck experimental physicists hold the world record in attaining the first Bose-Einstein condensates of different chemical elements.
A €550,000 grant from the Volkswagen Foundation supports JGU Mainz's research on quantum computers using fullerenes and nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamonds.
Water is the most abundant and one of the most frequently studied substances on Earth, yet its geometry at the molecular level - the simple two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, and how they interact with other molecules, including other water - has remained somewhat of a mystery to chemists.
The study of Topological Quantum Codes achieves a 75% reduction in qubit errors, enhancing error correction techniques vital for quantum computing advancements.
A study has turned upside down a typical way of looking at the connection between physics and information in quantum systems — with results that could lead to new insight into quantum computation.