News tagged with magnetic states
Using superconducting probes to get a picture of what it's like inside CNTs
(PhysOrg.com) -- "Carbon nanotubes are exciting for fundamental physics, and for potential technological applications," Nadya Mason tells PhysOrg.com. "However, we are generally limited in the way that we can study them. ...
Nov 20, 2009 |
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PhD student solves decade-long mystery of magnetism
(PhysOrg.com) -- A PhD student from the London Centre for Nanotechnology has won a prize for solving a decade-long mystery central to understanding modern magnetic systems.
Oct 27, 2009 |
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Physicists find way to control individual bits in quantum computers
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have overcome a hurdle in quantum computer development, having devised a viable way to manipulate a single "bit" in a quantum processor without ...
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Unexpectedly Long-Range Effects in Advanced Magnetic Devices
(PhysOrg.com) -- A tiny grid pattern has led materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Institute of Solid State Physics in Russia to an unexpected finding—the ...
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Graphene Yields Secrets to Its Extraordinary Properties
(PhysOrg.com) -- Applying innovative measurement techniques, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have directly measured the unusual energy ...
May 14, 2009 |
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Quantum cat's 'whiskers' offer advanced sensors
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by Oxford University scientists has turned one of the key problems with quantum entangled systems - that they are easily ‘disturbed’ by their environment - into an advantage which ...
Apr 24, 2009 |
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New MRI signaling method could picture disease metabolism in action
Duke University chemists are using modified magnetic resonance imaging to see molecular changes inside people's bodies that could signal health problems such as cancer.
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Researchers determined huge pressures that melt diamond on planet Neptune
(PhysOrg.com) -- The enormous pressures needed to melt diamond to slush and then to a completely liquid state have been determined ten times more accurately by Sandia National Laboratories researchers than ...
Feb 18, 2009 |
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New control of nanoscale 'magnetic tornadoes' holds promise for data storage
(PhysOrg.com) -- At the human scale, the tightly wrapped spinning columns of air in a tornado contain terrifying destructive power that ravages communities. At the nanoscale, however, closely coiled magnetic ...
Feb 02, 2009 |
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