News tagged with quantum spin

Research group creates longer lived and more efficient quantum memory

(Phys.org) -- One of the main sticking points to creating a true quantum computer capable of performing meaningful work, is the problem of storing quantum state information in memory. Recent efforts have resulted in highly ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Researchers engineer molecular magnets to act as long-lived qubits

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some physicists today are investigating the possibility of using molecular magnets as information storage units in future quantum computers. Molecular magnets are molecules whose magnetic ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Current flowing along the edges of a promising quantum device is insensitive to its magnetic impurities

Conductors of electrical current, including copper, heat up and limit the ability to increase circuit densities. Unusual materials that exhibit the so-called ‘quantum spin Hall effect’, in which ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Could silicon be ideal in quantum computing?

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Quantum computing could provide a way to significantly speed up the way we process certain algorithms," Malcolm Carroll tells PhysOrg.com. "The primary issue, though, is that you need a well controlled two-le ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

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

Subatomic quantum memory in diamond demonstrated

Physicists working at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Konstanz in Germany have developed a breakthrough in the use of diamond in quantum physics, marking an important step ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 32 | with audio podcast

Ultrathin copper-oxide layers behave like quantum spin liquid

(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic studies of ultrathin slabs of copper-oxide materials reveal that at very low temperatures, the thinnest, isolated layers lose their long-range magnetic order and instead behave like ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Sensitivity of precision measurements enhanced by the environment

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to quantum measurements, interaction with the environment usually limits sensitivity, since it causes decoherence. But in a new study, scientists have shown that the environment ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 27, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

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

Biological molecules select their spin

Do the principles of quantum mechanics apply to biological systems? Until now, says Prof. Ron Naaman of the Institute's Chemical Physics Department (Faculty of Chemistry), both biologists and physicists have considered quantum ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Getting to know the strong force, one of the four fundamental forces of the universe

(PhysOrg.com) -- In new work, high-energy physicists have observed two long-sought quantum states in the bottomonium family of sub-atomic particles. The result will help researchers better understand one of ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | 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

Is space like a chessboard?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at UCLA set out to design a better transistor and ended up discovering a new way to think about the structure of space.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 18, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (38) | comments 59 | with audio podcast

Could the combination of general relativity and quantum mechanics lead to spintronics?

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the early 20th century, two famous discoveries about spin were made. One of them, discovered by Albert Einstein and Wander Johannes de Haas, explains a relationship between the spin of elementary particles. ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 8 | with audio podcast feature

Creating a pure spin current in graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- Graphene is a material that has the potential for a number of future applications. Scientists are interested in using graphene for quantum computing and also as a replacement for electronics. However, in ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 10 | with audio podcast feature