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Centre for Quantum Technologies Releases Annual Report

The Centre for Quantum Technologies is pleased to make available its annual report for 2012. As well as a run-down of the year's events and research papers, a who's who of the Centre's staff and a letter from the Centre's Director, the report also offers special feature articles:

19 Jan 2013

Physicists Complete Rudimentary Versions of Quantum-Optical Experiment

In early 2011, a pair of theoretical computer scientists at MIT proposed an optical experiment that would harness the weird laws of quantum mechanics to perform a computation impossible on conventional computers. Commenting at the time, a quantum-computing researcher at Imperial College London said that the experiment “has the potential to take us past what I would like to call the ‘quantum singularity,’ where we do the first thing quantumly that we can’t do on a classical computer.”

19 Jan 2013

Researchers Successfully Simulate Strong Atomic Nuclear Interactions in a Neutron Star

(Jena) The planet Earth will die – if not before, then when the Sun collapses. This is going to happen in approximately seven billion years. In the universe however the death of suns and planets is an everyday occurance and our solar system partly consists of their remnants.

18 Jan 2013

C-SPIN to Develop Technologies for Spin-Based Computing Systems

The University of Minnesota announced today that it has been awarded a $28 million grant over five years to lead a new national research center focused on developing the next generation of microelectronics. About one-third of the grant will support research in Minnesota.

18 Jan 2013

Major Institutions Involved in Center for Future Architectures Research to Design Computers of 2025

Designing the computers of 2025 is the focus of a new $28 million, five-year research center led by the University of Michigan.

18 Jan 2013

CFI Provides Funds to Upgrade Particle Physics Laboratory

The federal government’s Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) is investing $8.7 million in two national research projects in which SFU is a major participant.

18 Jan 2013

Iron-Based Superconducting Wire Carries High Electrical Currents under Exceptionally High Magnetic Fields

A technology invented at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory for manufacturing copper-oxide based high-temperature superconducting materials has been used to make an iron-based superconducting wire capable of carrying very high electrical currents under exceptionally high magnetic fields.

17 Jan 2013

UWA’s SKA Research on the Cosmic Web Receives $2M Gift

A former science student of The University of Western Australia has donated $2 million to fund a new research position that will help shed light on some of the biggest mysteries in the Universe.

17 Jan 2013

Brilliant Stars Emerge from Dusty Stellar Nursery

An evocative new image from ESO shows a dark cloud where new stars are forming, along with a cluster of brilliant stars that have already emerged from their dusty stellar nursery. The new picture was taken with the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile and is the best image ever taken in visible light of this little-known object.

17 Jan 2013

Quantum Entanglement 'Recycled' to Increase Efficiency of Intense Particle Connections

For the last ten years, theoretical physicists have shown that the intense connections generated between particles as established in the quantum law of 'entanglement' may hold the key to eventual teleportation of quantum information.

17 Jan 2013