News tagged with experimental error

The quantum computer is growing up: Repetitive error correction in a quantum processor

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists at the University of Innsbruck, led by Philipp Schindler and Rainer Blatt, has been the first to demonstrate a crucial element for a future functioning quantum computer: ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 26, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (27) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

New statistical technique improves precision of nanotechnology data

A new statistical analysis technique that identifies and removes systematic bias, noise and equipment-based artifacts from experimental data could lead to more precise and reliable measurement of nanomaterials ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Study cracks a secret of methanol production

(Phys.org) -- What’s the best way to make methanol? The question is more pressing than it sounds. Not only is methanol an important industrial chemical – some 50 million tons are used each year to ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Automated image analysis arises from handcraft and machine learning

The amount of visual information increases with tremendous speed. The archives of television networks, image bank databases and social media in the web are all bursting with billions of pictures – and more is produced ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Discarded data may hold the key to a sharper view of molecules

(Phys.org) -- There's nothing like a new pair of eyeglasses to bring fine details into sharp relief. For scientists who study the large molecules of life from proteins to DNA, the equivalent of new lenses have come in the ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Wild blue yonder: Engineers tackle challenges of hypersonic flight

(Phys.org) -- Aeronautical engineers believe hypersonic planes flying at seven to 15 times the speed of sound will someday change the face of air and space travel. That is, if they can master such flight's known unknowns.

Technology / Engineering

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Topological insulators: Researchers map path to quantum electronic devices

A team of Duke University engineers has created a master "ingredient list" describing the properties of more than 2,000 compounds that might be combined to create the next generation of quantum electronics ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 13, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

CMS experiment observes new Xi_b beauty particle

The CMS experiment has submitted a paper for publication describing the first observation of a new, excited beauty baryon known as the Ξ*b0, with a statistical significance of more than 5 standard deviations (5σ) abo ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Researchers create first custom designed protein crystal

Protein design is technique that is increasingly valuable to a variety of fields, from biochemistry to therapeutics to materials engineering. University of Pennsylvania chemists have taken this kind of design ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Breakthrough could slash R&D time for next generation of hydrogen fuel cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- It took Thomas Edison two years and over 3,000 experiments to develop a marketable light bulb. It has taken 10 times that long and who-knows-how-many experiments to develop a system that is ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Researchers show the way forward for improving organic and molecular electronic devices

Future prospects for superior new organic electronic devices are brighter now thanks to a new study by researchers with the DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Working at the Lab's ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Simulating strongly correlated fermions opens the door to practical superconductor applications

Combining known factors in a new way, theoretical physicists Boris Svistunov and Nikolai Prokof'ev at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with three alumni of their group, have solved an intractable 50-year-old ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 18, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 5 | with audio podcast


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