News tagged with ground state

Physicists build quantum amplifier with single artificial atom

(PhysOrg.com) -- By demonstrating how a single artificial atom can be used to amplify electromagnetic waves, physicists from Japan are opening up new possibilities for quantum amplifiers, which can be used ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 25, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (23) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

Copper-based materials show strange spin states

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as water, ice, and steam are all phases of the same material that are influenced by temperature and pressure, new research shows how transitions of state work in very simple lattices ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Laser light used to cool object to quantum ground state

For the first time, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in collaboration with a team from the University of Vienna, have managed to cool a miniature mechanical object to its lowest ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Nanoplasmonic 'whispering gallery' breaks emission time record in semiconductors

Renaissance architects demonstrated their understanding of geometry and physics when they built whispering galleries into their cathedrals. These circular chambers were designed to amplify and direct sound ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

China sets up military cyber-warfare team: report

China's military has set up an elite Internet security task force tasked with fending off cyberattacks, state media reported Friday, denying that the initiative is intended to create a "hacker army".

Technology / Internet

created May 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Patience pays off with methanol for uranium bioremediation

The legacy of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy development has left ground water and sediment at dozens of sites across the United States and many more around the world contaminated with uranium. The uranium is transported ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1