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Study to Demystify Selected Set of Objections Targeted Against Quantum Theory in Literature

A colloquium paper published in EPJ D looks into the alleged issues associated with quantum theory.

27 Nov 2013

Reality Lost Documentary Based on Quantum Theory and Reality

What does quantum theory tell us about reality? Who are the scientists trying to unravel its puzzles? What practical things can we do with it? Can we dance it?

27 Nov 2013

Undergraduate Receives NUS Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize (OURP) for CQT Project

Nguyen Truong Duy once watched a television documentary about quantum physics.

27 Nov 2013

New Startup Company QKD Corp Based on Quantum Cryptography

The company is called QKD Corp. and is based on the theory research of Dr Weedbrook and the experimental work of Dr Xing.

26 Nov 2013

Research Team Finds Evidence of Heavy Atoms in Black Hole Jets

High-speed 'jets' spat out by black holes pack a lot of power because they contain heavy atoms, astronomers have found.

26 Nov 2013

Florian Schreck Receives ERC Grant for Studying Quantum Many-Body Systems

This year the European Research Council (ERC) awards the very first ERC Consolidator Grants for promising researchers with seven to twelve years research experience. Florian Schreck has received this grant for his concepts to study quantum many-body systems.

26 Nov 2013

Weizmann Institute Scientists Create World's Smallest SQUID

Weizmann Institute scientists have taken a quantum leap toward understanding the phenomenon known as superconductivity: They have created the world's smallest SQUID – a device used to measure magnetic fields – which has broken the world record for sensitivity and resolution.

26 Nov 2013

Astrophysicists to Simulate Extreme Black Holes with Support from $525,000 grant from NSF

Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology are on the hunt for gravitational waves and clues about the early universe. Their simulations of black holes colliding—and the gravitational waves produced from the impact—will be the blueprints for detecting actual gravity waves and verifying Einstein's theory of general relativity—an event that could occur within the decade.

26 Nov 2013

Rice University Researchers Report Superfluorescent Bursts from Quantum Wells

Spontaneous bursts of light from a solid block illuminate the unusual way interacting quantum particles behave when they are driven far from equilibrium. The discovery by Rice University scientists of a way to trigger these flashes may lead to new telecommunications equipment and other devices that transmit signals at picosecond speeds.

26 Nov 2013

Study Results Provide New Insights into High-Temperature Superconductivity

Classical and high-temperature superconductors differ hugely in the value of the critical temperatures at which they lose all electrical resistance. Scientists have now used powerful X-rays to establish another big difference: high-temperature superconductivity cannot be accounted for by the mechanism that leads to conventional superconductivity.

25 Nov 2013

Researchers Exploit Decay to Create Entanglement of Atomic Systems

Usually, when researchers work with quantum information, they do everything they can to prevent the information from decaying. Now researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, have flipped things around and are exploiting the decay to create the so-called entanglement of atomic systems, which is the foundation for quantum information processing. The results are published in the scientific journal, Nature.

25 Nov 2013

NIST Experiment Shows How Quantum Computing Can Benefit from Lost Data

Suggesting that quantum computers might benefit from losing some data, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have entangled—linked the quantum properties of—two ions by leaking judiciously chosen information to the environment.

25 Nov 2013

International Research Team Announces First Solid Evidence for Astrophysical Neutrinos

An international team of scientists that includes University of Adelaide researchers today announced the first solid evidence for astrophysical neutrinos - very high-energy particles coming from distant regions of our galaxy or further - which will lead to new ways of exploring the Universe.

25 Nov 2013

Trio of NASA Satellites Capture Never-Before-Seen Details of Gamma-Ray Burst

On April 27, a blast of light from a dying star in a distant galaxy became the focus of astronomers around the world. The explosion, known as a gamma-ray burst and designated GRB 130427A, tops the charts as one of the brightest ever seen.

22 Nov 2013