News tagged with quantum behavior

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First Pump-Probe Experiment at Linac Coherent Light Source Completed

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first experiment using the Linac Coherent Light Source to illuminate molecules via a "pump-probe" technique has been completed by an international team of more than 30 scientists from ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Physicist wins Packard Fellowship

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT physicist Pablo Jarillo-Herrero has won a 2009 David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, an award he will use to study a new class of materials that could have applications in the semiconductor ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Scientists discover quantum fingerprints of chaos

Chaotic behavior is the rule, not the exception, in the world we experience through our senses, the world governed by the laws of classical physics.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (29) | comments 1

Michigan scientists working on super-fast, secure computing

Air Force Office of Scientific Research(AFOSR)-supported physicists at the University of Michigan are developing innovative components for quantum, or super-fast, computers that will improve security for data ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Physicists demonstrate quantum entanglement in mechanical system

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated entanglement--a phenomenon peculiar to the atomic-scale quantum world--in a mechanical system similar to those in the macroscopic ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 3

Quantum Theory May Explain Wishful Thinking

(PhysOrg.com) -- Humans don’t always make the most rational decisions. As studies have shown, even when logic and reasoning point in one direction, sometimes we chose the opposite route, motivated by personal ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (47) | comments 14 feature

Flatland physics probes mysteries of superfluidity

(Physorg.com) -- If physicists lived in Flatland—the fictional two-dimensional world invented by Edwin Abbott in his 1884 novel—some of their quantum physics experiments would turn out differently (not just ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 3

Physicists offer new theory for iron compounds

An international team of physicists from the United States and China this week offered a new theory to both explain and predict the complex quantum behavior of a new class of high-temperature superconductors.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0


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