Interpretation of Heisenberg’s Principle is Proven False
Students are taught that quantum uncertainty is always in the eye of the beholder, but that principle might have been proven false by a new…
Quantum Mechanics
Electronic Read-out of the Quantum State of an Atom
In a newly published study, researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and their colleagues have shown the first direct real-space images of spin-split molecular…
New System Converts Laser Beam into Controlled Stream of Single Photons
Using a technique based on electromagnetically induced transparency, MIT and Harvard scientists have achieved the ability to convert a laser beam into a stream of…
Quantum Entanglement between Widely Separated Atoms
Scientists have demonstrated a method of heralding entanglement between spins of two single rubidium-87 atoms trapped independently 20 meters apart, paving the way towards quantum…
Quantum Bits Store Data for Nearly Two Seconds Using Laboratory Grown Diamonds
A newly published study describes how a group of Harvard scientists were able to create quantum bits and store information in them for nearly two…
Scientists Switch On and Off Magnetism Using Quantum Mechanics
In a newly published study, an international team of scientists described how they used quantum mechanics to switch on and off the magnetism in a…
Experiment Shows that Light Defies the Principles of Classical Physics
A newly published study describes the experiment scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute used to demonstrate that light can have both an electric and a…
“Schrödinger’s Hat” Conceals Matter Waves Inside an Invisible Container
An international team working to understand invisibility and extend its possible applications has now devised an amplifier, “Schrödinger’s hat,” that can boost light, sound or…
Ion Crystal Set to Power Quantum Simulator
Quantum computers are getting closer to reality as scientists created the ion crystal that will allow this quantum simulator to perform calculations that eclipses the…
Realization of a “Gedankenexperiment”
A new study set to be published this week describes how physicists at the University of Vienna demonstrated in an experiment that the decision whether…
Simulating Quantum Walks in Two Dimensions
A team of physicists are the first to successfully realize a quantum walk in two dimensions and believe by simulating these quantum walks, physicists could…
Dynamics of a System of Ultracold Potassium Atoms
A new publication demonstrates that the dynamics of a system of ultracold potassium atoms, trapped in an optical lattice, depend surprisingly strongly on the particle…
Evidence of Elusive Majorana Fermions Raises Possibilities for Quantum Computing
It’s been reported that researchers in the Leo Kouwenhoven group, based out of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, might have beaten several…
Quantum Computers to Arrive with Single-Atom-Sized Transistors
Physicists at Purdue University and the University of New South Wales have constructed a transistor from single atom of phosphorus placed precisely on a bed…
Quantum Entanglement of 8 Photons Successfully Accomplished by Physicists
In quantum mechanics, entanglement allows two or more particles separated in space to have the same physical properties, which are correlated. This means that if…
Researchers Demonstrate a Quantum Connection Between Light and Mechanics
By using a laser to illuminate an object, physicists in the EPFL’s Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurement have shown that it is possible to…
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Search for “Supersolids”
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are searching for the quantum state of matter called supersolidity. Now conducting research at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source, Hans…
Quantum Physicists Take a Step Forward in Understanding Quantum Inseparability
Quantum physicists from the University of Bristol and Hungarian Academy of Sciences have teamed together on new research that takes a step forward in understanding…
