Quantum leap in lasers brightens future for quantum computing
The laser may play a crucial role in the development of quantum computers, which are predicted to eventually outperform today’s most powerful supercomputers. Light from the laser is ...
Quantum leap in lasers at Dartmouth brightens future for quantum computing
The fact that we use only superconducting pairs is what makes our work so significant, says Alex Rimberg, a professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth. Light from the laser is p...
Quantum Computing May Mean Quantum Robotics: The Creative and Smart Robots of the Future
Scientists have taken a closer look at quantum computing and have found that quantum tools can help robots learn and respond much faster to the stimuli around them. Yet can these sam...
Physicists Use Computer Models to Reveal Quantum Effects in Biological Oxygen Transport
This is very dangerous in the case of the iron-containing proteins involved in respiration, since such a union is irreversible and leads to the protein being poisoned and the individ...
Physicists propose superabsorption of light beyond the limits of classical physics
In one potential method to realize superabsorption, a superabsorbing ring absorbs incident photons, giving rise to excitons. Credit: Higgins, et al. (Phys.org) —In a well-known quan...
Physicists introduce another quantum animal: The Quantum Pigeon
There are different types of non-locality which quantum mechanics showed could not exist in classical physics. It’s remarkable that it’s still possible to discover something fundamen...
Molecular engineers record an electron’s quantum behavior
Their technique uses ultrafast pulses of laser light both to control the defect’s entire quantum state and observe how that single electron state changes over time. Being able to tes...
Linux Foundation to host Let’s Encrypt [LWN.net]
[Announcements] Posted Apr 9, 2015 23:44 UTC (Thu) by n8willis The Linux Foundation (LF) has announced that it will serve as host of the Let’s Encrypt project, as well as the Intern...
Let’s Encrypt: Delivering SSL/TLS Everywhere
Then why don’t we use TLS (the successor to SSL) everywhere? Every server in every data center supports it. Let’s Encrypt is a new free certificate authority, built on a foundation o...
ISRG Engages NCC Group for Let’s Encrypt Audit
ISRG has engaged the NCC Group Crypto Services team to perform a security review of Let’s Encrypt’s certificate authority software, boulder, and the ACME protocol. NCC Group’s team w...
ISRG and The Linux Foundation to Collaborate
Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), the non-profit entity behind Let’s Encrypt, is pleased to announce our collaboration with The Linux Foundation. The Linux Foundation is a non...
Electrons moving in a magnetic field exhibit strange quantum behavior
Yet, there is much that remains unknown about exactly how electrons behave in a magnetic field. The experimental team used a transmission electron microscope to generate nanometer-si...
Electrons in magnetic field reveal surprises – Physics World
Beam out: elongated Landau states The best glimpse yet of electrons moving in a magnetic field has revealed that the particles’ behaviour differs strongly from what is predicted by ...
Boosting the force of empty space
In fact, empty space is a bubbling soup of various virtual particles popping in and out of existence – a phenomenon called vacuum fluctuations. A team of researchers from the Weizman...
An optomechanical crystal to study interactions among colocalized photons and phonons
A photon is the quantum particle of light and electromagnetic radiation. Although it might seem surprising, electromagnetic radiation and mechanical vibrations of matter interact and...
When mediated by superconductivity, light pushes matter million times more
It can be used to couple the electromagnetic laser field to, for example, the movement of the small mechanical oscillators that can be found inside ordinary watches. Radiation pressu...
Tesla unveils battery to ‘transform energy infrastructure’
Tesla unveils battery to ‘transform energy infrastructure’ by Staff Writers Los Angeles (AFP) May 1, 2015 Electric car pioneer Tesla unveiled a home battery Thursday which i...
Star formation and magnetic turbulence in the Orion Molecular Cloud
With blue hues suggestive of marine paradises and a texture evoking the tranquil flow of sea waves, this image might make us daydream of sandy beaches and exotic holiday destinations...
Quantum-mechanical monopoles discovered
Under these extreme conditions they were able to create a monopole in the quantum-mechanical field that describes the gas. ‘In this nonmagnetic state, a structure was created in the ...
Proteomics identifies DNA repair toolbox
Proteomics identifies DNA repair toolbox by Staff Writers Munich, Germany (SPX) May 09, 2015 Collision of the DNA replication machinery with lesions in the DNA triggers the ...
Northwestern scientists develop first liquid nanolaser
The liquid nanolaser in this study is not a laser pointer but a laser device on a chip, Odom explained. The laser’s color can be changed in real time when the liquid dye in the micro...
New chip architecture may provide foundation for quantum computer
Such simulations could revolutionize chemistry, biology and material science, but the development of quantum computers has been limited by the ability to increase the number of quant...
NASA soil moisture mission begins science operations
High-resolution global soil moisture map from SMAP’s combined radar and radiometer instruments, acquired between May 4 and May 11, 2015, during SMAP’s commissioning phase. Credit: NA...
JILA strontium atomic clock sets new records
JILA strontium atomic clock sets new records by Staff Writers Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 27, 2015 JILA’s strontium lattice atomic clock now performs better than ever because scien...
Japan’s maglev train notches up new world speed record
Japan’s maglev train notches up new world speed record by Staff Writers Tokyo (AFP) Apr 21, 2015 Japan’s state-of-the-art maglev train clocked a new world speed record Tuesd...