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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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Diamond used to produce graphene quantum dots and nano-ribbons of controlled structure

Kansas State University researchers have come closer to solving an old challenge of producing graphene quantum dots of controlled shape and size at large densities, which could revolutionize electronics and optoelectronics.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Beyond the high-speed hard drive: Topological insulators open a path to room-temperature spintronics

(Phys.org) -- Strange new materials experimentally identified just a few years ago are now driving research in condensed-matter physics around the world. First theorized and then discovered by researchers ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

First, fast, and faster

(Phys.org) -- Scientists in PML's Quantum Measurement Division have produced the first superluminal light pulses made by using a technique called four-wave mixing, creating two separate pulses whose peaks ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 33 | with audio podcast

Third research team close to creating Majorana fermion

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently there has been a virtual explosion of research efforts aimed at creating the elusive Majorana fermion with different groups claiming to be near to creating them. First there was news that a team ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

Solving energy problems, one molecule at a time

Jeffrey Grossman says Cambridge has a better climate than California — for carrying out materials science research, that is. That’s why Grossman decided, two years ago, to make the move from the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The James Webb Telescope will see Earth-like worlds

The James Web Space Telescope has been in the news a lot lately.  Often referred to as the replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope, its existence has been in jeopardy since a House committee voted ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 7

Materials scientists develop topological insulator with a switch

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Stanford and SLAC have found a potential way to harness the amazing properties of topological insulators – materials that conduct electricity only along their surfaces – ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

I'd love to smash the Ritz...

The riots weren’t funny. Let’s get that straight right from the start. But for those who tuned in on YouTube, they did have some comic moments. In Tottenham, on the opening night, a group of hoodies ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Controlling silicon evaporation allows scientists to boost graphene quality

Scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology have for the first time provided details of their "confinement controlled sublimation" technique for growing high-quality layers of epitaxial graphene on ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Record-breaking solar cell announced by multinational research team

The most efficient colloidal-quantum-dot solar cell ever created will be described in a scientific paper to be published in a print edition of the journal Nature Materials by a team of scientists that includ ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 8


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