Newly Discovered Phenomenon Shows Electrons Can Move Much Faster Than Expected
A new study shows that electrons passing through a narrow constriction in a piece of metal can move much faster than expected, and that they…
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Quantum Physics – Teleporting Toward a Quantum Internet
New experiments in Calgary tested quantum teleportation in actual infrastructure, representing a major step forward for the technology. Quantum physics is a field that appears…
Engineered Viruses Provide Quantum-Based Enhancement of Energy Transport
In a newly published study, a team of scientists detail how they used genetically engineered viruses to enhance energy transport in genetically engineered excitonic networks….
Physicists Observe and Control Quantum Motion
For the first time, a team of physicists has discovered a way to observe and control quantum motion of an object that is large enough…
Scientists Predict Material with Record-Setting Melting Point, More Than 4,400 Kelvins
Scientists at Brown University predict that a material made from hafnium, nitrogen, and carbon would have the highest known melting point, about two-thirds the temperature…
MIT Physicists Create Ultracold Molecules of 23Na40K
A team of physicists from MIT has successfully cooled molecules in a gas of sodium potassium (NaK) to a temperature of 500 nanokelvins, creating ultracold…
New Entanglement Technique Could Make Atomic Clocks More Accurate
Researchers have developed a new technique that can entangle thousands of atoms with a single photon, opening the door to a new class of entangled…
Quantum Experiment Verifies Nonlocal Wavefunction Collapse for a Single Particle
Physicists from Griffith University have demonstrated “spooky action at a distance” for the first time with no efficiency loophole by splitting a single photon between…
Researchers Hope To Provide New Insights Into Quantum Gravity
A new grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation will help fund experiments at Yale University that may provide new insights into quantum gravity. Yale University…
Experimental Observations of Multiparty EPR Steering and Genuine Tripartite Entanglement
Using an optical network, researchers experimentally confirm that entanglement associated with the EPR paradox can be shared over three or more distinct optical systems. An…
New Theory Suggests Quantum Effects Caused by Interacting Parallel Worlds
A new theory of quantum mechanics presumes not only that parallel worlds exist, but also that their mutual interaction is what gives rise to all…
Scientists Use String Field Theory to Validate Quantum Mechanics
A new study uses string field theory to try to validate quantum mechanics, proposing a link that could open the door to using string field…
Physicists Propose Existence of Parallel Universes, Challenge Quantum Science
In a newly published study, physicists propose that parallel universes really exist and that they interact and influence one another by a subtle force of…
New Research Suggests Electron Wave Function Can Be Split and Trapped
A newly published study from Brown University suggests that the quantum state of an electron — the electron’s wave function — can be shattered into…
Chip-Scale Device Enables Yale Engineers to ‘See Without Looking’
Engineers at the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science have developed a chip-scale device that uses the wave-particle duality of single photons to sense…
“Perfect Fluid” Reveals Clues about the Young Universe Microseconds after the Big Bang
Nuclear scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Lab have made the most precise extraction to date of a key property of…
Magneto-Optical Trapping of Strontium Monofluoride
Using magneto-optical trapping, Yale physicists cooled molecules of strontium monofluoride to 2.5 thousandths of a degree above absolute zero, the lowest temperature yet achieved by…
Physicists Unveil New Technology to Study Atomic Vibration in Nanomaterials
Using new computer technology based on gaming machines, physicists were able to use a combination of molecular dynamics and quantum mechanics calculations to model the…