News tagged with electron spin

Good vibes: Coupling electron spin states and carbon nanotube vibrations

(Phys.org) -- An electron’s spin is separate from its motion, and is suitable for use in both highly-precise magnetic sensing as well as a qubit in quantum computing. Recently, scientists at the University ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Researchers engineer molecular magnets to act as long-lived qubits

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some physicists today are investigating the possibility of using molecular magnets as information storage units in future quantum computers. Molecular magnets are molecules whose magnetic ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Could silicon be ideal in quantum computing?

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Quantum computing could provide a way to significantly speed up the way we process certain algorithms," Malcolm Carroll tells PhysOrg.com. "The primary issue, though, is that you need a well controlled two-le ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

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

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Researchers analyze the future of transistor-less magnonic logic circuits

(PhysOrg.com) -- As one of the newest research areas today, the field of magnonics is attracting researchers for many reasons, not the least being its possible role in the development of transistor-less logic ...

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created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

Researchers Design Triple Quantum Dot for Quantum Information Applications

(PhysOrg.com) -- While quantum dots have existed since the 1980s, only in the past decade have physicists successfully created lateral few-electron single quantum dots. These quantum dots enable physicists ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 0 feature

A 50-year quest to isolate the thermoelectric effect is now over: Magnon drag unveiled

In a paper published in Nature Materials, a group of researchers at the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology (ICN, Spain) led by Prof. Sergio O. Valenzuela reports the observation of the magnon drag. This w ...

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created Dec 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (24) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Is space like a chessboard?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at UCLA set out to design a better transistor and ended up discovering a new way to think about the structure of space.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 18, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (38) | comments 59 | with audio podcast

Single electron reader opens path for quantum computing

Researchers from University of New South Wales (Australia), University of Melbourne (Australia), and Aalto University (Finland) have succeeded in demonstrating a high-fidelity detection scheme for the magnetic ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 27, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (27) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Spin polarized supercurrents optimized with a simple flip

(Phys.org) -- Researchers from Michigan State University, the NIST Center for Neutron Research, and the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology have discovered the key to controlling and enhancing ...

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created May 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Putting a new spin on computing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the University of Arizona have achieved a breakthrough toward the development of a new breed of computing devices that can process data using less power.

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created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Curved carbon for electronics of the future

A new scientific discovery could have profound implications for nanoelectronic components. Researchers from the Nano-Science Center at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with ...

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created Jan 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (23) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Physicists capture first images of atomic spin

(PhysOrg.com) -- Though scientists argue that the emerging technology of spintronics may trump conventional electronics for building the next generation of faster, smaller, more efficient computers and high-tech ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 26, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (39) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

UC Riverside physicists pave the way for graphene-based spin computer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the University of California, Riverside have taken an important step forward in developing a "spin computer" by successfully achieving "tunneling spin injection" into graphene.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 14, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (23) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

'Spintronics' breakthrough holds promise for next-generation computers

Using powerful lasers, Hui Zhao, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Kansas, and graduate student Lalani Werake have discovered a new way to recognize currents of spinning electrons ...

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created Aug 24, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast