News tagged with quantum spin

Better control of building blocks for quantum computer

Dutch scientists from the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology and Eindhoven University of Technology have succeeded in controlling the building blocks of a future super-fast quantum ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 23, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Computer memory takes a spin: Physicists read data after storing them in atomic nuclei for 112 seconds

University of Utah physicists stored information for 112 seconds in what may become the world's tiniest computer memory: magnetic "spins" in the centers or nuclei of atoms. Then the physicists retrieved and ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 16, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Single electron reader opens path for quantum computing

Researchers from University of New South Wales (Australia), University of Melbourne (Australia), and Aalto University (Finland) have succeeded in demonstrating a high-fidelity detection scheme for the magnetic ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 27, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (27) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Physicists cross hurdle in quantum manipulation of matter

Finding ways to control matter at the level of single atoms and electrons fascinates many scientists and engineers because the ability to manipulate single charges and single magnetic moments (spins) may help ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 17, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | 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

Physicists demonstrate 100-fold speed increase in optical quantum memory

(PhysOrg.com) -- As with today's computers, future quantum computers will require more than just quantum information processing; they will also require methods to store and retrieve the quantum information. ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 01, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (31) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

How does the proton get its spin?

(PhysOrg.com) -- At a meeting this week of the American Physical Society in Washington, MIT Associate Professor of Physics Bernd Surrow reported on new results from the STAR experiment at the Relativistic ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 17, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (33) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

Digging deep into diamonds, physicists advance quantum science and technology

By creating diamond-based nanowire devices, a team at Harvard has taken another step towards making applications based on quantum science and technology possible.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 14, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Researchers Design Triple Quantum Dot for Quantum Information Applications

(PhysOrg.com) -- While quantum dots have existed since the 1980s, only in the past decade have physicists successfully created lateral few-electron single quantum dots. These quantum dots enable physicists ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 0 feature

Researchers create all-electric spintronics

A multidisciplinary team of UC researchers is the first to find an innovative and novel way to control an electron's spin orientation using purely electrical means.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 3

The Spin Cycle: Nanoresearch could lead to next generation of transistors

(PhysOrg.com) -- For decades, the transistors inside radios, televisions and other everyday items have transmitted data by controlling the movement of the electron’s charge. Scientists now have discovered ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Proposed Quantum Computer Consists of Billions of Electron Spins

(PhysOrg.com) -- While researchers have already demonstrated the building blocks for few-bit quantum computers, scaling these systems up to large quantum computers remains a challenge. One of the biggest problems ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 23 feature

New exotic material could revolutionize electronics

Move over, silicon -- it may be time to give the Valley a new name. Physicists at the Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have confirmed the existence ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (54) | comments 10

Super-efficient Transistor Material Predicted

(PhysOrg.com) -- New work by condensed-matter theorists at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory points to a material that could one day be used to ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 15, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (36) | comments 10

Controllable double quantum dots and Klein tunneling in nanotubes

Researchers from the Kavli Institute of NanoScience in Delft are the first to have successfully captured a single electron in a highly tunable carbon nanotube double quantum dot. This was made possible by a new approach for ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0