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…
Quantum Mechanics
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…
Physicists Observe Quantum Criticality in a New Class of Materials
Physicists have discovered new “quantum critical points” in a class of iron superconductors known as “oxypnictides,” furthering their understanding of quantum criticality. Quantum criticality, the…
Researchers Observe What Happens During a Quantum Phase Transition
In a newly published study, researchers observe what happens during a quantum phase transition, and compare the “quantum melting” of the magnetic structure with the…
Researchers Entangle Two Independent Photons with Different Frequencies
Using time-resolved measurement and active feed forward, researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China have entangled two independent photons of different colors…
Quantum Mechanics May Lead to an Ultra-Secure Internet
Researchers give theoretical proof that quantum mechanics may lead to an ultra-secure internet. Einstein’s skepticism about quantum mechanics may lead to an ultra-secure internet suggests…
Researchers Discover the First Direct Evidence of Cosmic Inflation
Researchers have discovered the first direct evidence of cosmic inflation, confirming a deep connection between quantum mechanics and general relativity. Cambridge, Massachusetts – Almost 14…
Researchers Combine Excited States of Two Materials into a New Quantum Mechanical State
A team of researchers has taken the excited states of two principally different materials and combined them into a new quantum mechanical state that shares…
Researchers Propose Using Distant Quasars to Test Bell’s Theorem
A team of researchers has proposed a practical scheme to use photons from causally disconnected cosmic sources to set the detectors in an experimental test…
Ballistic Transport in Graphene Nanoribbons Suggests New Type of Graphene-Based Electronics
A newly published study from Georgia Institute of Technology reveals that ballistic transport in graphene nanoribbons could result in a new class of coherent electronic…