(Phys.org) -- Researchers at The Australian National University have developed the fastest random number generator in the world by listening to the 'sounds of silence'.
Quantum Physics
Apr 11, 2012
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There was a huge amount of excitement when the Higgs boson was first spotted back in 2012 – a discovery that bagged the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2013. The particle completed the so-called standard model, our current best ...
General Physics
Nov 6, 2018
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If powerful new quantum computers are to reach their enormous potential, they will need amplifiers capable of transmitting signals so weak they consist of a single photon. In the May 6 edition of the journal ...
Quantum Physics
May 5, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A simple device measures the quantum noise of vacuum fluctuations and generates true random numbers.
Optics & Photonics
Sep 9, 2010
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Error-correcting codes are one of the glories of the information age: They're what guarantee the flawless transmission of digital information over the airwaves or through copper wire, even in the presence of the corrupting ...
Computer Sciences
Oct 1, 2014
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Scientists have shown the energy conditions, under which a weak signal supplied to a physical system emerges as a stronger signal at the output thanks to the presence of random noise (a process known as stochastic resonance), ...
General Physics
Dec 6, 2011
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Researchers have developed two new components that could help Europe meet some of its most pressing communication challenges in optical amplifier research.
Optics & Photonics
Sep 15, 2011
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(Phys.org)—A team of physicists working in a lab at Free University of Berlin have succeeded in causing a quartz cantilever to oscillate uniformly using the random vibrations of a single hydrogen molecule. This effect was ...
Researchers have developed a new data transmission system that could substantially improve the transmission capacity and energy efficiency of the world's optical communication networks.
Telecom
Sep 7, 2010
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Researchers from SEMATECH's Front End Processes (FEP) program have developed a comprehensive transistor noise model capable of extracting defect characteristics from low frequency noise data in advanced gate stack transistors ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Oct 27, 2009
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