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Speed limit on the quantum highway

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have measured the propagation velocity of quantum signals in a many-body system.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

JQI cool nano loudspeakers could makes for better MRIs, quantum computers

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists from the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), the Neils Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Harvard University has developed a theory describing how to both detect weak ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study supports role of quantum effects in photosynthesis

(PhysOrg.com) -- Until a few years ago, photosynthesis seemed to be a straightforward and well-understood process in which plants and other organisms use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into sugars, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 7 | with audio podcast feature

Rice lab mimics Jupiter's Trojan asteroids inside a single atom

Rice University physicists have gone to extremes to prove that Isaac Newton's classical laws of motion can apply in the atomic world: They've built an accurate model of part of the solar system inside a single ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

A new class of electron interactions in quantum systems

Physicists at the University of New South Wales have observed a new kind of interaction that can arise between electrons in a single-atom silicon transistor.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers boost solar concentrator efficiency

A team of researchers at the University of California, Merced, has redesigned luminescent solar concentrators to be more efficient at sending sunlight to solar cells.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Physicists cool semiconductor by laser light

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have combined two worlds – quantum physics and nano physics, and this has led to the discovery of a new method for laser cooling semiconductor membranes. Semiconductors ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 22, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

In solar cells, tweaking the tiniest of parts yields big jump in efficiency

(PhysOrg.com) -- By tweaking the smallest of parts, a trio of University at Buffalo engineers is hoping to dramatically increase the amount of sunlight that solar cells convert into electricity.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 27 | with audio podcast

Biocompatible quantum dot images tumors in live animals

Quantum dots, small semiconductor nanoparticles that fluoresce brightly with sharply defined colors, have tremendous promise as biomedical imaging agents except for one problem—most are made from potentially hazardous ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Quantum mechanics enables perfectly secure cloud computing

Researchers have succeeded in combining the power of quantum computing with the security of quantum cryptography and have shown that perfectly secure cloud computing can be achieved using the principles of ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (15) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

High-power, 532 nm-wavelength compact green laser module with high efficiency, high-speed modulation capability

QD Laser, Inc., the Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics, the University of Tokyo, and Fujitsu Laboratories Limited today announced the successful development of a high-power 532 nm-wavelength ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

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

Are you certain, Mr. Heisenberg? New measurements deepen understanding of quantum uncertainty

Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle is arguably one of the most famous foundations of quantum physics. It says that not all properties of a quantum particle can be measured with unlimited accuracy. Until now, this has often ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 10

Graphene quantum dots: The next big small thing

A Rice University laboratory has found a way to turn common carbon fiber into graphene quantum dots, tiny specks of matter with properties expected to prove useful in electronic, optical and biomedical applications.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers conduct experimental implementation of quantum algorithm

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at D-Wave Systems have carried out a calculation involving 84 qubits on an experimental quantum computer, giving some credence to the plausibility of true quantum computers being ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast weblog