News tagged with quantum liquid

Neutrons uncover new density waves in fermion liquids

Scientists working at the Institut Laue-Langevin, one of the world's leading centres for neutron science, have carried out the first investigation of two-dimensional fermion liquids using neutron scattering, and discovered ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The perfect liquid -- now even more perfect

Ultra hot quark-gluon-plasma, generated by heavy-ion collisions in particle accelerators, is supposed to be the "most perfect fluid" in the world. Previous theories imposed a limit on how "liquid" fluids can ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Seeing quantum mechanics with the naked eye

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cambridge team have built a semiconductor chip that converts electrons into a quantum state that emits light but is large enough to see by eye. Because their quantum superfluid is simply ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (44) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Quantum error correction in solid state processing

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Liquid state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) has been successful for quantum information processing,” Osama Moussa tells PhysOrg.com. “However, there are some questions about scalability and ot ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

Twisted crystals point way toward active optical materials

(PhysOrg.com) -- A nanoscale game of "now you see it, now you don't" may contribute to the creation of metamaterials with useful optical properties that can be actively controlled, according to scientists ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Manufacturing method paves way for commercially viable quantum dot-based LEDs

University of Florida researchers may help resolve the public debate over America's future light source of choice: Edison's incandescent bulb or the more energy efficient compact fluorescent lamp. It could be neither.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New study proves that much-sought exotic quantum state of matter can exist

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world economy is becoming ever more reliant on high tech electronics such as computers featuring fingernail-sized microprocessors crammed with billions of transistors. For progress to ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Exotic quantum crystal discovered

Nature knows two opposite types of solids: one that emerges upon compression from a liquid and a second that appears if the pressure on a liquid is reduced. While the former is typical for substances in our ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Quantum mapmakers complete first voyage through spin liquid

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Oxford University have mapped a state of matter called 'quantum spin liquid', whose existence was proposed in the 1970s but which has only been observed recently.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 01, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists produce a crystal that could help unlock the mystery of high-temperature superconductors

MIT scientists have synthesized, for the first time, a crystal they believe to be a two-dimensional quantum spin liquid: a solid material whose atomic spins continue to have motion, even at absolute zero temperature.

Physics / Superconductivity

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Quantum hot potato: Researchers entice two atoms to swap smallest energy units

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have for the first time coaxed two atoms in separate locations to take turns jiggling back and forth while swapping the smallest measurable ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 23, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Research uses quantum mechanics to melt glass at absolute zero

Quantum mechanics, developed in the 1920s, has had an enormous impact in explaining how matter works. The elementary particles that make up different forms of matter -- such as electrons, protons, neutrons and photons -- ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 02, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (15) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Nanotubes pass acid test

Rice University scientists have found the "ultimate" solvent for all kinds of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), a breakthrough that brings the creation of a highly conductive quantum nanowire ever closer.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 14, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Physicists capture first images of atomic spin

(PhysOrg.com) -- Though scientists argue that the emerging technology of spintronics may trump conventional electronics for building the next generation of faster, smaller, more efficient computers and high-tech ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 26, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (39) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Decorated with Electric Current, Nanoribbons Align with Expectations

(PhysOrg.com) -- A bizarre substance predicted to shrink electronics and give quantum physicists a new tabletop toy behaves pretty much as its designers expected.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 27, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (31) | comments 0 | with audio podcast