News tagged with quantum behavior
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Fake violations of Bell tests reinforce importance of closing loopholes
(PhysOrg.com) -- In quantum mechanics, Bell’s inequalities serve as a test of nonclassical behavior: if something (such as a light source) violates Bell’s inequalities, then it can be considered to involve quantum ...
Nov 08, 2011 |
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D-Wave researchers demonstrate progress in quantum computing
(PhysOrg.com) -- Taking another step toward demonstrating quantum behavior in a quantum computer, researchers from the Vancouver-based company D-Wave Systems, Inc., have performed a technique called quantum ...
May 14, 2011 |
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Making Quantum Behavior Observable Using Optical Levitation
(PhysOrg.com) -- Perhaps one of the biggest challenges of modern physics is figuring out how to realize and take advantage of strange quantum behaviors in progressively larger and more complex systems. Progress ...
Jan 26, 2010 |
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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 ...
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Apr 14, 2009 |
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IBM research advances device performance for quantum computing
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at IBM Research have achieved major advances in quantum computing device performance that may accelerate the realization of a practical, full-scale quantum computer. For specific ...
Feb 28, 2012 |
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Rice's 'quantum critical' theory gets experimental boost
New evidence this week supports a theory developed five years ago at Rice University to explain the electrical properties of several classes of materials -- including unconventional superconductors -- that ...
Jan 11, 2012 |
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How 'spooky' quantum mechanical laws may affect everyday objects (Update)
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a study published in the July 1 issue of the journal Nature, Dartmouth researchers describe one example of the microscopic quantum world influencing--even dominating, they say--the behavi ...
Jul 01, 2010 |
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NIST Develops 'Dimmer Switch' for Superconducting Quantum Computing
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed the first “dimmer switch” for a superconducting circuit linking a quantum bit (qubit) and a quantum bus—promising ...
Apr 27, 2010 |
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Creating a quantum gas
(PhysOrg.com) -- "One of the many reasons people study ultracold gases is for their potential as model quantum systems," Deborah Jin tells PhysOrg.com. "There is a need to model quantum many-body systems because a lot of ...
Feb 01, 2010 |
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Physicists propose quantum entanglement for motion of microscopic objects
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have proposed a new paradigm that should allow scientists to observe quantum behavior in small mechanical systems.
Dec 21, 2009 |
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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.
Oct 07, 2009 |
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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 ...
Jun 03, 2009 |
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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 ...
Mar 25, 2009 |
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New study may lead to MRIs on a nanoscale
(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) on the nanoscale and the ever-elusive quantum computer are among the advancements edging closer toward the realm of possibility, and a new study co-authored ...
Feb 23, 2012 |
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Physicists demonstrate the quantum von Neumann architecture
A new paradigm in quantum information processing has been demonstrated by physicists at UC Santa Barbara. Their results are published in this week's issue of Science Express online.
Sep 01, 2011 |
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