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Article examines rare quantum physics effect

(PhysOrg.com) -- There's nothing University of Nebraska-Lincoln physicist Herman Batelaan likes more than a challenge. And there are few areas of science more challenging than working at the sub-atomic, or ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (31) | comments 8




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How the alphabet of data processing is growing: Research team generates flying 'qubits'

The alphabet of data processing could include more elements than the "0" and "1" in future. An international research team has achieved a new kind of bit with single electrons, called quantum bits, or qubits. ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Quantum physics is the focus of Nobel buzz

Three physicists whose research on entangled particles plays a key role in attempts to develop super-fast quantum computers could be in the running for the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Quantum physics first: Researchers observe single photons in two-slit interferometer experiment

Quantum mechanics is famous for saying that a tree falling in a forest when there's no one there doesn't make a sound. Quantum mechanics also says that if anyone is listening, it interferes with and changes the tree. And ...

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created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (23) | comments 44 | with audio podcast

Magnets trump metallics: Magnetic fields can block conductivity of carbon nanotubes

Metallic carbon nanotubes show great promise for applications from microelectronics to power lines because of their ballistic transmission of electrons. But who knew magnets could stop those electrons in their ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 08, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Quantum doughnuts slow and freeze light at will: 'fast computing & slow glass'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research led by the University of Warwick has found a way to use doughnuts shaped by-products of quantum dots to slow and even freeze light, opening up a wide range of possibilities from reliable and effective ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 2

Proving an aspect of the AB effect: when Newton's Third Law doesn't work

An action doesn’t always result in a reaction.

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created Dec 04, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (96) | comments 13 feature

Physicists demonstrate quantum mechanical nature of heat flow

One of the hallmarks of quantum mechanics -- the laws of physics that apply on very small scales -- is the wave nature exhibited by sub-atomic particles such as electrons. An electron presented with two paths to a destination ...

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Magnetic Forces May Turn Some Nanontubes Into Metals

Research Documents First Instance of Band-gap Shrinkage in a Semiconductor A new study, published in today’s issue of the journal Science, finds that the basic electrical properties of semiconducting carbon nanotubes c ...

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