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Scientists Provide 'New Spin' on Emerging Quantum Technologies
April 23, 2013 Scientists have 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 ... > full story -
Quantum Computing Taps Nucleus of Single Atom
April 17, 2013 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 ... > full story -
Quantum Tricks Drive Magnetic Switching Into the Fast Lane
April 3, 2013 Researchers in the U.S. and Greece have found a new way to switch magnetism that is at least 1000 times faster than currently used in magnetic memory technologies. Magnetic switching is used to ... > full story -
Quantum Computers Coming Soon? Metamaterials Used to Observe Giant Photonic Spin Hall Effect
March 21, 2013 Engineering a unique metamaterial of gold nanoantennas, researchers were able to obtain the strongest signal yet of the photonic spin Hall effect, an optical phenomenon of quantum mechanics that ... > full story -
Fantastic Flash Memory Combines Graphene and Molybdenite
March 19, 2013 Scientists have combined two materials with advantageous electronic properties -- graphene and molybdenite -- into a flash memory prototype that is very promising in terms of performance, size, ... > full story -
Causing Collapse: Can One Affect an Atom's Spin Just by Adjusting the Way It Is Measured?
March 18, 2013 One of the most basic laws of quantum mechanics is that a system can be in more than one state -- it can exist in multiple realities -- at once. This phenomenon, known as the superposition principle, ... > full story -
Magnets Are Chaotic -- And Fast -- At the Very Smallest Scale
March 18, 2013 Using a new type of camera that makes extremely fast snapshots with an extremely high resolution, it is now possible to observe the behavior of magnetic materials at the nanoscale. This behavior is ... > full story -
New Microscope Measures Nanomagnet Property Vital to 'Spintronics'
March 15, 2013 Researchers have developed a new microscope able to view and measure an important but elusive property of the nanoscale magnets used in an advanced, experimental form of digital memory. The new ... > full story -
Smallest Vibration Sensor in the Quantum World
March 15, 2013 Carbon nanotubes and magnetic molecules are considered building blocks of future nanoelectronic systems. Their electric and mechanical properties play an important role. Researchers have now found a ... > full story -
Nanoscale Spinning Magnetic Droplets Created
March 14, 2013 Researchers have successfully created a magnetic soliton -- a nano-sized, spinning droplet that was first theorized 35 years ... > full story
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