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Good vibes: Coupling electron spin states and carbon nanotube vibrations

(Phys.org) -- An electron’s spin is separate from its motion, and is suitable for use in both highly-precise magnetic sensing as well as a qubit in quantum computing. Recently, scientists at the University ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Does the quantum wave function represent reality?

(Phys.org) -- At the heart of quantum mechanics lies the wave function, a probability function used by physicists to understand the nanoscale world. Using the wave function, physicists can calculate a system's ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (38) | comments 136 | with audio podcast feature

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

Time crystals could behave almost like perpetual motion machines

(PhysOrg.com) -- As every young science student knows, moving objects have kinetic energy. But just how much energy does something need to move? In a new study, a pair of physicists has shown that it’s ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (34) | comments 39 | with audio podcast report

Fast photon control brings quantum photonic technologies closer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using photons instead of electrons to transmit information could lead to faster and more secure ways to communicate, among other advantages. Now a team of physicists has taken another step toward realizing ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

Copper chains: Study reveals Earth's deep-seated hold on copper

Earth is clingy when it comes to copper. A new Rice University study this week in the journal Science finds that nature conspires at scales both large and small -- from the realms of tectonic plates down t ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Quantum control protocols could lead to more accurate, larger scale quantum computations

A protocol for controlling quantum information pioneered by researchers at UC Santa Barbara, the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience in Delft, the Netherlands, and the Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University could ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Physicists find patterns in new state of matter

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered patterns which underlie the properties of a new state of matter.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 26 | with audio podcast

Copper-based materials show strange spin states

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as water, ice, and steam are all phases of the same material that are influenced by temperature and pressure, new research shows how transitions of state work in very simple lattices ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Exotic new matter expected in ultracold atoms

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as NASA engineers test new rocket designs in computer studies before committing themselves to full prototypes, so physicists will often model matter under various circumstances to see whether something ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Electrons in concert: A simple probe for collective motion in ultracold plasmas

(PhysOrg.com) -- Collective, or coordinated behavior is routine in liquids, where waves can occur as atoms act together. In a milliliter (mL) of liquid water, 1022 molecules bob around, colliding. When a bre ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Many bodies make one coherent burst of light: Researchers see superfluorescence from solid-state material

In a flash, the world changed for Tim Noe – and for physicists who study what they call many-body problems. The Rice University graduate student was the first to see, in the summer of 2010, proof of a ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

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

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

Graphite enters different states of matter

(Phys.org) -- For the first time, scientists have seen an X-ray-irradiated mineral go to two different states of matter in about 40 femtoseconds (a femtosecond is one quadrillionth of a second).

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast