News tagged with optical phase estimation

Using quantum smoothing for optical phase estimation

(PhysOrg.com) -- "There are many situations where we need to measure the classical properties of a quantum system," Elanor Huntington tells PhysOrg.com. "Optical phase estimation is one of these techniques, and it is cen ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 11, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature




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SKA super telescope to be built in Australia, South Africa (Update 2)

A long-running joust to host a radio telescope that would give mankind its farthest peek into the Universe ended on Friday with a Solomon-like judgement to split the site between Australia and South Africa.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4

The use of acoustic inversion to estimate the bubble size distribution in pipelines

New research from the University of Southampton has devised a new method to more accurately measure gas bubbles in pipelines.

Physics / General Physics

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Swift satellite monitors departing Comet Garradd

(Phys.org) -- An outbound comet that provided a nice show for skywatchers late last year is the target of an ongoing investigation by NASA's Swift satellite. Formally designated C/2009 P1 (Garradd), the unusually ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Discovery of the Musket Ball Cluster

(Phys.org) -- Using a combination of powerful observatories in space and on the ground, astronomers have observed a violent collision between two galaxy clusters in which so-called normal matter has been wrenched ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Stars: How big is big?

You may have seen one of these astronomical scale picture sequences, where you go from the Earth to Jupiter to the Sun, then the Sun to Sirius – and all the way up to the biggest star we know of VY Canis ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Aerosols affect climate more than satellite estimates predict

Aerosol particles, including soot and sulfur dioxide from burning fossil fuels, essentially mask the effects of greenhouse gases and are at the heart of the biggest uncertainty in climate change prediction. New research from ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

Structural origin of 'hidden state' in manganite thin film revealed by picosecond time-resolved X-ray diffraction

Photo-induced phase transition (PIPT) has caused great excitement in materials science because ultra-fast alteration of the magnetic, dielectric, structural and optical properties of materials can be brought ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Rocky, low-mass planet discovered by microlensing

In planet hunting today, there seems to be one burning question that nearly every new article published touches on: Where did these planets come from?

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Pentagonal tiles pave the way towards organic electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research paves way for the nanoscale self-assembly of organic building blocks, a promising new route towards the next generation of ultra-small electronic devices.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Salt-seeking spacecraft arrives at launch site

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international spacecraft that will take NASA's first space-based measurements of ocean surface salinity has arrived at its launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The Aquarius/SAC-D ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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