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Superconducting Qubit Array Points the Way to Quantum Computers
Apr. 23, 2014 A fully functional quantum computer is one of the holy grails of physics. Physicists have moved one step closer to making a quantum computer a reality by demonstrating a new level of reliability in a ... full story -
Mapping the Road to Quantum Gravity
Apr. 23, 2014 The road uniting quantum field theory and general relativity -- the two great theories of modern physics -- has been impassable for 80 years. Could a tool from condensed matter physics finally help ... full story -
Atomic Switcheroo Explains Origins of Thin-Film Solar Cell Mystery
Apr. 23, 2014 Treating cadmium-telluride (CdTe) solar cell materials with cadmium-chloride improves their efficiency, but researchers have not fully understood ... full story -
Halving Hydrogen: First View of Nature-Inspired Catalyst After Ripping Hydrogen Apart Provides Insights for Better Fuel Cells
Apr. 23, 2014 A fuel cell catalyst that converts hydrogen into electricity must tear open a hydrogen molecule. Now researchers have captured a view of such a catalyst holding onto the two halves of its hydrogen ... full story -
Liquid Spacetime: What If Spacetime Were a Kind of Fluid?
Apr. 23, 2014 What if spacetime were a kind of fluid? This is the question tackled by theoretical physicists working on quantum gravity by creating models attempting to reconcile gravity and quantum mechanics. ... full story -
Quantum Simulators Developed to Study Inaccessible Physical Systems
Apr. 22, 2014 Quantum simulators recreate the behavior on a microscopic scale of biological and quantum systems and even of particles moving at the speed of light. The exact knowledge of these systems will lead to ... full story -
Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices: Grasp of SQUIDs Dynamics Facilitates Eavesdropping
Apr. 22, 2014 A superconducting quantum interference device is a highly sensitive magnetometer used to measure extremely subtle magnetic fields. It is made of two thin regions of insulating material that separate ... full story -
Nanomaterial Outsmarts Ions: Novel Types of Electronic Components Made of Graphene
Apr. 22, 2014 Ions are an essential tool in chip manufacturing, but they can also be used to produce nano-sieves. A large number of electrons must be removed from the atoms for this purpose. Such ions either lose ... full story -
Higher Solar-Cell Efficiency Achieved With Zinc-Oxide Coating
Apr. 22, 2014 Researchers have achieved 14-percent efficiency in a 9-millimeter-square solar cell made of gallium arsenide. It is the highest efficiency rating for a solar cell that size and made with that ... full story -
Computer-Assisted Accelerator Design
Apr. 21, 2014 Accelerator physicists are using custom designed software to create a 3-D virtual model of the electron accelerator physicists hope to build inside the tunnel currently housing the Relativistic Heavy ... full story -
Quantum Turbulence: New Key to Unlocking the Mysteries of Physics?
Apr. 21, 2014 The recent discovery of the Higgs boson has confirmed theories about the origin of mass and, with it, offered the potential to explain other scientific mysteries. But, scientists are continually ... full story -
MRI, on a Molecular Scale: System Could One Day Peer Into the Atomic Structure of Individual Molecules
Apr. 18, 2014 A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system that can produce nano-scale images, and may one day allow researchers to peer into the atomic structure of individual molecules, has been developed by ... full story -
'Exotic' Material Is Like a Switch When Super Thin
Apr. 18, 2014 Researchers have shown how to switch a particular transition metal oxide, a lanthanum nickelate, from a metal to an insulator by making the material less than a nanometer thick. Ever-shrinking ... full story -
Impurity Size Affects Performance of Emerging Superconductive Material
Apr. 18, 2014 Impurities can hurt performance -- or possibly provide benefits -- in a key superconductive material that is expected to find use in a host of applications, including future particle colliders. The ... full story -
Collider Reveals Sharp Change from 'Quark Soup' to Atoms
Apr. 18, 2014 Scientists using the atom smasher at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have observed a phase transition different than the smooth transition of the early universe from ... full story -
Atom Probe Assisted Dating of Oldest Piece of Earth
Apr. 17, 2014 It's a scientific axiom: big claims require extra-solid evidence. So when a geoscience professor dated an ancient crystal to 4.4 billion years ago, skeptics questioned the dating. Then, in 2013, ... full story -
Scientists Observe Quantum Superconductor-Metal Transition and Superconducting Glass
Apr. 16, 2014 A new article presents the results of the first experimental study of the graphene-based quantum phase transition of the "superconductor-to-metal" type, i.e. transformation of the ... full story -
Identifying the Complex Growth Process of Strontium Titanate Thin Films
Apr. 16, 2014 Researchers in Japan have achieved the first successful atomic-level observation of growing strontium titanate thin ... full story -
Information Storage for the Next Generation of Plastic Computers: Efficient Conversion from Magnetic Storage to Light Is Key
Apr. 16, 2014 Inexpensive computers, cell phones and other systems that substitute flexible plastic for silicon chips may be one step closer to reality, thanks to new research. Scientists have made a new proposal ... full story -
Quantum Computing? Progress in the Fight Against Quantum Dissipation
Apr. 16, 2014 Scientists have confirmed a 50-year-old, previously untested theoretical prediction in physics and improved the energy storage time of a quantum switch by several orders of magnitude. High-quality ... full story
- Superconducting qubit array points the way to quantum computers
- Mapping the road to quantum gravity
- Atomic switcheroo explains origins of thin-film solar cell mystery
- Halving hydrogen: First view of nature-inspired catalyst after ripping hydrogen apart provides insights for better fuel cells
- Liquid spacetime: What if spacetime were a kind of fluid?
- Quantum simulators developed to study inaccessible physical systems
- Superconducting quantum interference devices: Grasp of SQUIDs dynamics facilitates eavesdropping
- Nanomaterial outsmarts ions: Novel types of electronic components made of graphene
- Higher solar-cell efficiency achieved with zinc-oxide coating
- Computer-assisted accelerator design
- Quantum turbulence: New key to unlocking the mysteries of physics?
- MRI, on a molecular scale: System could one day peer into the atomic structure of individual molecules
- 'Exotic' material is like a switch when super thin
- Impurity size affects performance of emerging superconductive material
- Collider reveals sharp change from 'quark soup' to atoms
- Scientists observe quantum superconductor-metal transition and superconducting glass
- Identifying the complex growth process of strontium titanate thin films
- Information storage for the next generation of plastic computers: Efficient conversion from magnetic storage to light is key
- Quantum computing? Progress in the fight against quantum dissipation
- Searching for dark energy with neutrons: With neutrons, scientists can now look for dark energy in the lab
- Scientists capture ultrafast snapshots of light-driven superconductivity
- Scientists achieve first direct observations of excitons in motion
- A small connection with big implications: Wiring up carbon-based electronics
- Beam on target! Cebaf accelerator delivered high-energy electron beams
- House windows that double as solar panels? Shiny quantum dots brighten future of solar cells
- New 'tunable' semiconductors will allow better detectors, solar cells
- Novel technique opens door to better solar cells, superconductors and hard drives
- Combs of light accelerate communication
- New form of matter: Exotic hadron with two quarks, two anti-quarks confirmed
- Search for elusive dark matter: Looking for traces by studying particles with low masses and interaction rates
- Nanostructures with applications in infrared and terahertz ranges
- A modern twist on Young's slits
- Researchers bolster development of programmable quantum computers
- Magnetization can surf on the top of a laser-induced sound wave
- Emerging research suggests a new paradigm for 'unconventional superconductors'
- One kind of supersymmetry shown to emerge naturally: Unique phenomenon in condensed matter system
- Scalable, universal quantum computer? Quantum information processed with system comprising optical photon and trapped atom
- New 'switch' could power quantum computing: Light lattice traps atoms, builds networks of quantum information transmitters
- Tiny step edges, big step for surface science
- Novel ultra-fast electrical circuits use light-generated tunneling currents
- Groundbreaking optical device could enhance optical information processing, computers
- Self-assembled silver superlattices create molecular machines with hydrogen-bond 'hinges' and moving 'gears'
- Tracking the transition of early-universe quark soup to matter-as-we-know-it
- To bridge LED green gap, think small ... really small: Nanostructures half a DNA strand-wide show promise for efficient LEDs
- Light-guiding gels provide new avenues for drug detection, delivery
- Quantum computing: Quantum photon properties revealed in another particle -- the plasmon
- Quantum cryptography for mobile phones
- Fermi data tantalize with new clues to dark matter: Gamma rays from center of Milky Way galaxy
- Pocket-size ultrasonic nebulizer employing a novel nozzle improves inhalers
- New insights into quantum dynamics and quantum chaos
- Researchers open path to finding rare, polarized metals
- Strain can alter materials' properties
- Low-cost, highly efficient OLED lighting: Europium complexes emit red light at record efficiency
- Carbon nanotubes grow in combustion flames
- Electrical transmission at atomic level: New approach to building signal processing components from individual atoms
- Nanoparticle trapped with laser light temporarily violates second law of thermodynamics
- Breakthrough in creating invisibility cloaks, stealth technology
- Physicists split and collide ultracold atom clouds using steerable 'optical tweezers'
- Fabricating nanostructures with silk could make clean rooms green rooms
- Rainbow-catching waveguide could revolutionize energy technologies
- Revolutionary solar cells double as lasers
- Ultra-thin light detectors: Metamaterials and quantum cascade structures combined for first time
- Record quantum entanglement of multiple dimensions: Two Schrφdinger cats which could be alive, dead, or in 101 other states simultaneously
- Exploding stars prove Newton's law of gravity unchanged over cosmic time
- Einstein's 'spooky' theory may lead to ultra-secure Internet
- Kelvin wave seen on quantum 'tornado' for first time
- Hunt for an unidentified electron object
- Plugging the hole in Hawking's black hole theory
- Like being inside a star: Simulating high pressures
- Experiment opens the door to multi-party quantum communication
- Engineers design 'living materials': Hybrid materials combine bacterial cells with nonliving elements that emit light
- Unavoidable disorder used to build nanolaser
- Spintronics: Could diamonds be a computer's best friend?
- Basketball: The physics of the 3-point shot
- Now even more likely that there are particles smaller than Higgs out there
- Can you drive fast enough to avoid being clocked by speed cameras?
- Making synthetic diamond crystals in plasma reactor
- Engineering materials for super-efficient nanoelectronics: Potential way to make graphene superconducting
- New control over topological insulator
- Best value for top quark's mass: Tevatron and LHC scientists announces first joint result
- Magnetic behavior discovery could advance nuclear fusion
- Thermal conductance can be controlled like waves using nanostructures
- NIST chips help BICEP2 telescope find direct evidence of origin of the universe
- New window into quantum physics opened with superconductivity in LEDs
- Bright future for protein nanoprobes
- Innovative quantum computer under scrutiny
- Nanotube composites greatly increase efficiency of next generation of solar cells
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