Materials Science
Mar 10, 2020
Magnetic teeth revealed using quantum imaging
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Quantum Physics
Mar 6, 2020
Novel method for easier scaling of quantum devices
In an advance that may help researchers scale up quantum devices, an MIT team has developed a method to "recruit" neighboring quantum bits made of nanoscale defects in diamond, so that instead of causing disruptions they ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 26, 2020
Engineers ensure quantum experiments get off to the right start
The quantum mechanical properties of electrons are beginning to open the door to a new class of sensors and computers with abilities far beyond what their counterparts based in classical physics can accomplish. Quantum states ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 21, 2020
A step towards controlling spin-dependent petahertz electronics by material defects
The operational speed of semiconductors in various electronic and optoelectronic devices is limited to several gigahertz (a billion oscillations per second). This constrains the upper limit of the operational speed of computing. ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 18, 2020
Correcting the jitters in quantum devices
Labs around the world are racing to develop new computing and sensing devices that operate on the principles of quantum mechanics and could offer dramatic advantages over their classical counterparts. But these technologies ...
General Physics
Feb 3, 2020
Heisenberg limit gets a meaningful update
One of the cornerstones of quantum theory is a fundamental limit to the precision with which we can know certain pairs of physical quantities, such as position and momentum. For quantum theoretical treatments, this uncertainty ...
General Physics
Jan 29, 2020
Measuring a particle's spin in a rapidly rotating object
A team of researchers at the University of Melbourne has succeeded in measuring a single quantum spin in a rapidly rotating object for the first time. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the group ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 22, 2020
Creating and observing current vortices in 2-D materials
Researchers at the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new method to measure how photocurrents flow in a 2-D material—a result that could have implications ...
Quantum Physics
Dec 19, 2019
Researchers report MRI on the atomic scale
Researchers at QuTech, a collaboration of TU Delft and TNO, have developed a new magnetic quantum sensing technology that can image samples with atomic-scale resolution. It opens the door towards imaging individual molecules, ...
General Physics
Dec 12, 2019
Tiny quantum sensors watch materials transform under pressure
Since their invention more than 60 years ago, diamond anvil cells have made it possible for scientists to recreate extreme phenomena—such as the crushing pressures deep inside the Earth's mantle—or to enable chemical reactions ...
