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 | Physicists led by Rainer Blatt and Peter Zoller experimentally gained a deep insight into the nature of quantum mechanical phase transitions. They are the first scientists that simulated the competition between two rival dynamical processes at a novel type of transition between two quantum mechanical orders. They have published the results of their work in the journal Nature Physics. ...> Full Article |
An international team has confirmed a phenomenon that has appeared in physics textbooks for nearly 40 years, but has never before been observed. The work may open the door for researchers to uncover completely unknown electrical properties of materials.
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 | Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, may have created the smallest drops of liquid made in the lab. ...> Full Article |
 | One question researchers have yet to answer is why nature picked quantum physics, in all its weird glory, as a sensible way to behave. ...> Full Article |
 | Harnessing the unique features of the quantum world promises a dramatic speed-up in information processing as compared to the fastest classical machines. Scientists from the Group of Philip Walther from the Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna succeeded in prototyping a new and highly resource efficient model of a quantum computer - the boson sampling computer. The results will be published in the upcoming issue of the renowned scientific journal "Nature Photonics". ...> Full Article |
 | Second sound is a quantum mechanical phenomenon, which has been observed only in superfluid helium. Physicists from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Trento, Italy, have now proven the propagation of such a temperature wave in a quantum gas. The scientists have published their historic findings in the journal Nature. ...> Full Article |
NYU physicists have uncovered how energy is released and dispersed in magnetic materials in a process akin to the spread of forest fires, a finding that has the potential to deepen our understanding of self-sustained chemical reactions.
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An international team of physicists has found the first direct evidence of pear shaped nuclei in exotic atoms.
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An international team of physicists, including researchers from the Universities of York and St. Andrews, has demonstrated that chaos can beat order -- at least as far as light storage is concerned.
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 | Seven years ago, Duke University engineers demonstrated the first working invisibility cloak in complex laboratory experiments. Now it appears creating a simple cloak has become a lot simpler. ...> Full Article |
 | UC Berkeley scientists and colleagues with the ALPHA collaboration at CERN are working on an experiment to directly measure gravity's effect on antihydrogen in freefall, and have some very rough initial results. ...> Full Article |
Because General Relativity is incompatible with quantum theory, physicists expect that its predictions will at some point fail under extreme conditions. However, in the most stringent test yet, Einstein's theory still holds up.
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An international team of scientists has shed new light on a fundamental area of physics which could have important implications for future electronic devices and the transfer of information at the quantum level.
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 | Australian engineers have demonstrated that quantum information can be "written" onto the nucleus of a single atom and "read" out with incredible accuracy. The result was achieved using a silicon chip that can be wired up and operated electronically. This world-first result will be published on April 18 in the journal Nature. ...> Full Article |
 | Physicists at ETH Zurich have developed a method for precisely controlling quantum systems by exploiting a trick that helps cats to land on their feet and motorists to fit their cars into parking spots. In the longer run, the method could lead to the development of more reliable quantum computers. ...> Full Article |
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