Yale Physicists Observe Quantum Information While Preserving Its Integrity
Yale physicists have taken a step forward in quantum computing by developing a new, non-destructive measurement system for observing, tracking and documenting all changes in…
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Quantum Gas Temperature Goes Below Absolute Zero
Physicists have been able to create an atomic gas that can attain a temperature below absolute zero, -273.15˚C. They were able to create this gas…
Photon Devices Could Outperform Traditional Computers
Quantum computers will be able to perform tasks that silicon-based computers wouldn’t be able to do, like cracking the codes that protect bank transactions. Several…
Discovery of Magnetic Field That Can Flip Heat Flow
Scientists discovered a magnetic field that can control the flow of heat from one body to another. It was first predicted 50 years ago, and…
Physicists Induce Electric Currents in Insulating Dielectric Materials
A team of physicists at the Max Planck Institute have shown that ultrashort light pulses of extremely high intensity can induce electric currents in otherwise…
Higgs Duality: Contradictory Results At LHC
The latest data presented by scientists on Higgs boson shows that separate measurements of its properties are showing two slightly different masses. The scientists at…
Samarium Hexoboride Behaves Like a Topological Insulator
Samarium hexoboride, a compound that had been poorly understood and that can gain conducting properties at very low temperatures, may be a topological insulator in…
The Quantum Teleportation Race Goes Into Space in 2016
Three years ago, Jian-Wei Pan and his colleagues were able to quantum teleport information across 16 kilometers. This was one of the first major steps…
Atomic Gas Superfluid Might Help Model the Early Cosmos
Quantum physicists have shown that superfluid gases can conduct without experiencing any resistance, possibly paving the way to help model the early Universe in the…
Geometry of “Super Atoms” May Play a Role in Future Quantum Computer Design
Scientists investigating how atoms interact with one another have now gained new insights into a type of interaction that may contribute to the advancement of…
Experiment Using Photons Could Detect Quantum-Scale Black Holes
A new tabletop experiment using a single photon was proposed to show whether space-time is made up of indivisible units. Space isn’t smooth, and physicists…
Photons Traverse Optical Obstacles as Both a Wave and Particle Simultaneously
A photon can act as a particle one moment, following a well-defined path like a tiny projectile, and a wave the next, overlapping with its…
Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Quantum Physicists Serge Haroche and David Wineland
Serge Haroche of the College of France, Paris, and David Wineland of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, have been awarded…
Physicists Directly Image Landau Levels
Using scanning tunneling spectroscopy, physicists studied the real-space local density of states of a two-dimensional electron system in a magnetic field and imaged the quantum…
The Experimental Design of a Space-Time Crystal
An international team of scientists has come up with the experimental design of a space-time crystal based on an electric-field ion trap and the Coulomb…
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…
Spin-Velocity Correlation in an Ultracold, Dilute Gas of Atoms
A newly published study details how MIT scientists create and detect spin-orbit coupling in an atomic Fermi gas, a highly controllable form of quantum degenerate…
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…
