University of Oregon physicists have combined light and sound to control electron states in an atom-like system, providing a new tool in efforts to move toward quantum-computing systems.
Quantum Physics
Apr 7, 2016
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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have succeeded in an experiment where they get an artificial atom to survive ten times longer than normal by positioning the atom in front of a mirror. The findings were recently ...
Quantum Physics
Oct 13, 2015
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Why have we never been able to manufacture fibers as strong and tough as the silks spun by silkworms and spiders?
Materials Science
Aug 21, 2015
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In this universe, anything that can vibrate will vibrate, and no oscillator is ever truly at rest.
Quantum Physics
Jul 2, 2015
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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology are first to show the use of sound to communicate with an artificial atom. They can thereby demonstrate phenomena from quantum physics with sound taking on the role of light. ...
Quantum Physics
Sep 11, 2014
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Quantum computers have yet to materialise. Yet, scientists are making progress in devising suitable means of making such computers faster. One such approach relies on quantum dots—a kind of artificial atom, easily controlled ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 24, 2014
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Dartmouth scientists and their colleagues have devised a breakthrough laser that uses a single artificial atom to generate and emit particles of light. The laser may play a crucial role in the development of quantum computers, ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 22, 2014
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A new breed of ultra thin super-material has the potential to cause a technological revolution. "Artificial graphene" should lead to faster, smaller and lighter electronic and optical devices of all kinds, including higher ...
Nanomaterials
Feb 14, 2014
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Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, together with colleagues in the US and Australia, have developed a method to control a quantum bit for electronic quantum communication in a series of quantum dots, which behave like ...
Quantum Physics
Aug 6, 2013
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If you squeeze a normal object in all directions, it shrinks in all directions. But a few strange materials will actually grow in one dimension when compressed. A team of chemists has now discovered a structure that takes ...
Condensed Matter
Jul 18, 2013
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