
Quantum 'Traffic Jam' Revealed: Findings May Help Get Current Flowing At Higher Temperatures
Scientists at Brookhaven
National Laboratory and
collaborators have uncovered
the first experimental
evidence for why the
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Large Hadron Collider: Final Synchronization Test A Success
CERN has announced the
success of the second and
final test of the Large
Hadron Collider's beam
synchronization systems. The
test will allow the LHC
... > full story

Light Touch: Controlling The Behavior Of Quantum Dots
Researchers from NIST and
the Joint Quantum Institute
have reported a new way to
fine-tune the light coming
from quantum dots by
... > full story

Large Hadron Collider Set To Unveil A New World Of Particle Physics
The field of particle
physics is poised to enter
unknown territory with the
startup of a massive new
accelerator -- the Large
... > full story
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Fast Quantum Computer Building Block Created
August 25, 2008 The fastest quantum computer bit that exploits the main advantage of the qubit over the conventional bit has been demonstrated. The scientists used lasers to create an initialized quantum state of ... > full story -
Optical Computing Closer To Reality
August 22, 2008 Scientists have theorized a way to increase the speed of pulses of light that bound across chains of tiny metal particles to past the speed of light by altering the particle shape. Application of ... > full story -
Creating Unconventional Metals: Quantum Halfway House Between Magnet And Semiconductor Discovered
August 21, 2008 The semiconductor silicon and the ferromagnet iron are the basis for much of mankind's technology, used in everything from computers to electric motors. Scientists now report that they have combined ... > full story -
Chemist Travels World To Study Mysterious Properties Of Neutrinos
August 20, 2008 In the quest to better understand one of nature's most "ghostly" elementary particles -- the neutrino -- scientists at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory are spreading their ... > full story -
Light Finds A Way -- Even Through White Paint: Specially-prepared Light Moves Through 'Open Channels'
August 19, 2008 Materials such as milk, paper, white paint and tissue are opaque because they scatter light, not because they absorb it. But no matter how great the scattering, light is always able to get through ... > full story -
Toward Plastic Spin Transistors: Ultrafast Computers And Electronics On The Horizon?
August 18, 2008 Physicists successfully controlled an electrical current using the "spin" within electrons -- a step toward building an organic "spin transistor": A plastic semiconductor switch for future ultrafast ... > full story -
New Theory For Latest High-temperature Superconductors
August 14, 2008 Physicists have published a new theory that explains some of the complex electronic and magnetic properties of iron "pnictides." In a series of startling discoveries this spring, pnictides were shown ... > full story -
Large Area Transistors Get Helping Hand From Quantum Effects
August 11, 2008 Researchers report that nano-designed transistors for the large area display and sensor application field benefit hugely from quantum size effects. The unexpected superior switching performance (low ... > full story -
Large Hadron Collider To Start Up September 10
August 10, 2008 The first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be made on 10 September. This news comes as the cool down phase of commissioning CERN's new particle accelerator reaches ... > full story -
Quantum Chaos Unveiled?
August 9, 2008 Scientists are shedding light on an important, unsolved physics problem: the relationship between chaos theory -- which is based on 300-year-old Newtonian physics -- and the modern theory of quantum ... > full story
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