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MPQ-Scientists Develop Quantum Processor for Single Photons

A team of scientists from the Quantum Dynamics Division of Professor Gerhard Rempe have successfully realized a quantum logic gate where two light quanta play the key actors. Professor Gerhard Rempe is the director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics. This attempt was highly challenging as photons do not typically interact at all but pass each other uninterrupted.

8 Jul 2016

New Technology Aims to Make Advanced LIGO More Sensitive to Gravitational Waves

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Australian National University have developed new technology that aims to make the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) even more sensitive to faint ripples in space-time called gravitational waves.

24 Jun 2016

KM3NeT Project Aims To Discover More about Fundamental Properties of Neutrinos

KM3NeT - a European collaboration pioneering the deployment of kilometre cubed arrays of neutrino detectors off the Mediterranean coast - has reported in detail on the scientific aims, technology and costs of its proposal in the Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics.

24 Jun 2016

ITMO University Engineers Develop Precision Drivers for Optical Electronic Complexes

Researchers at Chair of Electrical Engineering and Precision Electromechanical Systems proudly show a video of Soyuz 2.0a launching shot in Cosmodrome Vostochny.

23 Jun 2016

Study Opens up New Avenue for Exploring Non-Equilibrium and Dissipative Many-Body Physics

Yutaka Shikano, Ph.D., a member of Chapman University Institute for Quantum Studies (IQS) has recently published his work in Scientific Reports. One of the most outstanding phenomena in physics is superconductor with excellent technological implications.

21 Jun 2016

Researchers Explore Properties of Molecules with Circularly Polarized or Spiraling Light

A new device at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory allows researchers to explore the properties and dynamics of molecules with circularly polarized, or spiraling, light.

17 Jun 2016

Scientists Explore Workings of Cosmic and Gamma Rays in Earth’s Atmosphere

Three hundred giant tanks, each holding more than 50,000 gallons of purified water, perch on the side of the Sierra Negra volcano in central Mexico, standing 13,500 feet above sea level. Four photosensors lie at the bottom of each tank.

13 Jun 2016

Scientists Engineer New Class of Energy-Carrying Particles

Scientists at UC San Diego, MIT and Harvard University have engineered “topological plexcitons,” energy-carrying particles that could help make possible the design of new kinds of solar cells and miniaturized optical circuitry.

10 Jun 2016

New Technique for Producing Polarized Positrons

Researchers use accelerators to coax the electron into performing a wide range of tricks to enable medical tests and treatments, improve product manufacturing, and power breakthrough scientific research. Now, they’re learning how to coax the same tricks out of the electron’s antimatter twin – the positron – to open up a whole new vista of research and applications.

2 Jun 2016

EPFL and PSI Design Next-Generation Neutron Spectrometer

F. Groitl et al., Review of Scientific Instruments 87, 035109 (2016). Following extensive optimization and prototyping the CAMEA project, a joint venture between LNS (PSI) and the Laboratory for Quantum Magnetism (EPFL), enters its next stage.

27 May 2016