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Quantum paradox directly observed -- a milestone in quantum mechanics

In quantum mechanics, a vanguard of physics where science often merges into philosophy, much of our understanding is based on conjecture and probabilities, but a group of researchers in Japan has moved one ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (37) | comments 13




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Quantum physics mimics spooky action into the past

Physicists of the group of Prof. Anton Zeilinger at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), the University of Vienna, and the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ) ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (28) | comments 29 | with audio podcast

Quantum internet: Physicists build first elementary quantum network

(Phys.org) -- A team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics realizes a first elementary quantum network based on interfaces between single atoms and photons.

Physics / Quantum Physics

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

Physicists develop first conclusive test to better understand high-energy particles correlations

Researchers have devised a proposal for the first conclusive experimental test of a phenomenon known as "Bell’s nonlocality." This test is designed to reveal correlations that are stronger than any classical correlations, ...

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created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Physicist suggests Einstein could have beaten Bohr in famous thought experiment

(PhysOrg.com) -- Way back in the 1930’s, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr were sparring over ideas related to whether the new field of quantum mechanics was correct. In one thought experiment that Einstein said showed ...

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created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (22) | comments 56 | with audio podcast weblog

Virtual ghost imaging: New technique enables imaging even through highly adverse conditions

Ghost imaging (GI), and its even more oddly named cousin virtual ghost imaging (VGI), seem to contradict conventional wisdom by being able to image an object by simply counting photons in a "light bucket." This non-intuitive ...

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created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

'Spooky action at distance' in particle physics?

Researchers have devised a proposal for the first conclusive experimental test of a phenomenon known as ‘Bell’s nonlocality.’ This test is designed to reveal correlations that are stronger than any classical ...

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created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (32) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Multi-purpose photonic chip paves the way to programmable quantum processors

The fundamental resource that drives a quantum computer is entanglement—the connection between two distant particles which Einstein famously called 'spooky action at a distance'. The Bristol researchers ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 11, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

In the quantum world, diamonds can communicate with each other

Researchers working at the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford in England have managed to get one small diamond to communicate with another small diamond utilizing "quantum entanglement," one ...

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created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (33) | comments 96 | with audio podcast

The quantum world writ large: Using short optical pulses to study macroscopic quantum behavior

(PhysOrg.com) -- Einstein infamously dismissed quantum entanglement as spooky action at a distance and quantum uncertainty with his quip that God does not play dice with the universe. Aside from revealing his ...

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created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 9 | with audio podcast feature

Quantum optical link sets new time records

Quantum communication could be an option for the absolutely secure transfer of data. The key component in quantum communication over long distances is the special phenomenon called entanglement between two ...

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created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast


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