Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated the first "universal" programmable quantum information processor able to run any program allowed by quantum mechanics -- the rules governing ...
Quantum Physics
Nov 15, 2009
11
0
(PhsyOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated a technique for efficiently suppressing errors in quantum computers. The advance could eventually make it much easier to ...
Quantum Physics
Apr 22, 2009
2
0
A quartet of chemists at the University of Oxford has, for the first time, found a way to get two beryllium atoms to bond with one another in a complex compound. In their paper published in the journal Science, Josef Boronski, ...
A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. has successfully pulled an ice core from Antarctica's Ong Valley that contains samples of Earth's atmosphere from up to 5 million years ago. In their ...
An international team of researchers has found evidence that suggests the Ice-Free Corridor (IFC) proposed to have existed between ice sheets along a route from Beringia to the Great Plains came to exist approximately 13,800 ...
Scientists from the PTB and the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK), both Germany, have carried out pioneering optical measurements of highly charged ions with unprecedented precision. To do this, they isolated ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 29, 2020
0
441
Beryllium, a hard, silvery metal long used in X-ray machines and spacecraft, is finding a new role in the quest to bring the power that drives the sun and stars to Earth. Beryllium is one of the two main materials used for ...
Plasma Physics
Jul 2, 2019
4
6
The rare element beryllium is mainly known for being a component of emeralds, aquamarines, and other precious stones. However, in Nature Communications, an international team of scientists from the University of Bayreuth ...
Materials Science
Jun 27, 2019
3
2
Quantum systems can be manipulated with extremely high precision, but not perfectly. Researchers in the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich have now demonstrated how to monitor and correct errors that occur during such operations.
Quantum Physics
Nov 6, 2018
0
143
A group of researchers have discovered the retreat of an ancient ice sheet from the western coast of Canada occurred earlier than previously thought.
Earth Sciences
Sep 26, 2018
3
752
