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Low-Budget Fusion Reactor Could Generate Energy within a Decade

(PhysOrg.com) -- Currently, most nuclear fusion power plants are large, expensive projects that will take decades to benefit from. But a startup company in Vancouver, Canada, called General Fusion is taking ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (59) | comments 57 weblog

Quantum non-demolition measurement allows physicists to count photons without destroying them

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a way, the quantum world seems to know when it's being watched. When physicists make measurements on photons and other quantum-scale particles, the measurements always disturb the system ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 09, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (36) | comments 7 | with audio podcast feature

Einstein's dream surpassed

(PhysOrg.com) -- A constant stabilization experiment of a quantum state has been successfully carried out for the first time by a team from the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel headed by Serge Haroche. The researchers succeeded ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (31) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

Print your own lasers, lights and TV screens

Imagine printing your own room lighting, lasers, or solar cells from inks you buy at the local newsagent. Jacek Jasieniak and his colleagues at CSIRO, the University of Melbourne and the University of Padua ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 01, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (29) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Proposed Quantum Computer Consists of Billions of Electron Spins

(PhysOrg.com) -- While researchers have already demonstrated the building blocks for few-bit quantum computers, scaling these systems up to large quantum computers remains a challenge. One of the biggest problems ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 23 feature

Vertical cavity quantum switch could lead us away from electronics-based computing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Right now, many researchers around the world are working on ways to move away from electronics-dominated computing systems. There are a number of ideas about how this can be accomplished. "We are trying to ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (27) | comments 5 | with audio podcast feature

On the path to quantum computers: Ultra-strong interaction between light and matter realized

Researchers around the world are working on the development of quantum computers that will be vastly superior to present-day computers. Here, the strong coupling of quantum bits with light quanta plays a pivotal ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (23) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Could light and matter coupling lead to quantum computation?

(PhysOrg.com) -- In science, one of the issues of great interest is that of quantum computing, and creating a way to make it possible on a scalable level. This could be achieved by taking advantage of the strong interaction ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 11, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (20) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

'Painless' plasma brush is becoming reality in dentistry, engineers say

University of Missouri engineers and their research collaborators at Nanova, Inc. are one step closer to a painless way to replace fillings. After favorable results in the lab, human clinical trials are underway ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (19) | comments 8

Researchers make breakthrough in the quantum control of light

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have recently demonstrated a breakthrough in the quantum control of photons, the energy quanta of light. This is a significant result in quantum computation, and could eventually ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Entangled Light in Bose-Einstein Condensates

(PhysOrg.com) -- When physicists entangle light, they usually use nonlinear crystals as the source. However, it’s difficult to control the entanglement generation process in a bulk crystal, and so scientists ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 13 feature

When the speed of light depends on its direction

Light does not travel at the same speed in all directions under the effect of an electromagnetic field. Although predicted by theory, this counter-intuitive effect has for the first time been demonstrated ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 13, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 27 | with audio podcast

From a classical laser to a 'quantum laser'

Rainer Blatt's and Piet Schmidt's research team from the University of Innsbruck have successfully realized a single-atom laser, which shows the properties of a classical laser as well as quantum mechanical ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 31, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Two molecules communicate via single photons

Scientists realize one of the most elementary and oldest "gedanken" experiments in modern physics, namely, excitation of a single molecule with a single photon. This paves the way for further investigations ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Transparent iron? For the first time, an experiment shows that atomic nuclei can become transparent

At the high-brilliance synchrotron light source PETRA III, a team of DESY scientists headed by Dr. Ralf Röhlsberger has succeeded in making atomic nuclei transparent with the help of X-ray light. At the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 3 | with audio podcast