A team of scientists from the Quantum ICT Research Institute of Tamagawa University in Japan has reported that the researchers have demonstrated the limit and incompleteness of the security theory in quantum cryptography or quantum key distribution.
By Will Soutter
7 Aug 2012
An international team comprising researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS), The Australian National University (ANU), the University of Oxford and the University of Queensland have discovered that quantum discord, an easier accessible and more robust phenomenon, can provide a quantum advantage.
By Will Soutter
6 Aug 2012
Physicists from Dartmouth College have reported their work on an exotic particle called Majorana in a paper published in the Physical Review Letters journal.
By Will Soutter
3 Aug 2012
Physicists have detected Higgs excitations near absolute zero. In a low-dimensional system containing ultracold atoms, the team was able to detect Higgs-type excitations at the transition phase of matter.
By Will Soutter
27 Jul 2012
A research team from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has developed a first-of-its-kind monolithic three-dimensional (3D) ion microtrap array that may be scaled up to confine several tens of ion-based quantum bits (qubits).
By Will Soutter
25 Jul 2012
Scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have conducted a new study to assess the relationship between disorder and quantum coherence. This may help in the development of better superconducting magnets and other quantum-based devices.
By Will Soutter
20 Jul 2012
In a paper published in Physical Review Letters, Krishna Kumar and Andrea Pocar, physicists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have described the findings of a test carried out at the Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO) in a salt mine in Carlsbad, New Mexico, as part of a 10-year old claim to witness the ephemeral neutrino-less double-beta decay of Xenon-136.
By Will Soutter
20 Jul 2012
The Centre for Quantum Technologies has launched Quantum Shorts 2012, a competition to create the best short film no longer than 3 minutes based on ideas associated with quantum physics. Top short films will be exhibited on newscientist.com, a well-known science news website.
By Will Soutter
17 Jul 2012
A research team comprising Filippo Miatto and other physicists from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, has discovered a new technique to reliably evaluate the information carried by photon pairs utilized for quantum computing and cryptography applications.
By Will Soutter
13 Jul 2012
Due to non-availability of complete information, majority of the predictions made often go wrong, such as in the case of predicting weather condition.
By Will Soutter
12 Jul 2012
Maxim Perelstein, a Physics Professor at the Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics at Cornell University, has commented on the latest announcement related to the detection of Higgs particle and its significance in elementary physics.
By Will Soutter
6 Jul 2012
The CMS and ATLAS experiments have presented their most recent initial results of their research on the Higgs boson particle at a seminar hosted by CERN as a curtain raiser to ICHEP2012, a key particle physics conference to be held in Melbourne, Australia.
By Will Soutter
5 Jul 2012
A research group from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, University of Huddersfield, University of Bristol, and University of Kent has identified a new type of unconventional superconductors.
By Will Soutter
4 Jul 2012
A team of physicists from the Kansas State University has found a new class of three-body bound states, which may provide new insights into matter and its composition.
By Will Soutter
4 Jul 2012
A research team has developed an advanced experimental system that is capable of producing attosecond bursts of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light.
By Will Soutter
2 Jul 2012