In order to better understand fundamental processes in life science at the molecular level, the precise observation of single molecule dynamics is of utmost interest. However, current techniques ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-tracking-dynamics-biomolecules-optofluidic-antennas.html
A mathematical link between two key equations—one that deals with the very big and the other, the very small—has been developed by a young mathematician in China.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-mathematical-bridge-huge-tiny.html
The fragile qubits that make up quantum computers offer a powerful computational tool, yet also present a conundrum: How can engineers create practical, workable quantum systems out of bits that ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-boosts-efficiency-quantum-error.html
Radiation from space is a challenge for quantum computers as their computation time becomes limited by cosmic rays. Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and University of W...
The effects of quantum mechanics—the laws of physics that apply at exceedingly small scales—are extremely sensitive to disturbances. This is why quantum computers must be held at temperatures...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-quantum-fiber-optics-brain-degenerative.html
In the quantum world, processes can be separated into two distinct classes. One class, that of the so-called "perturbative" phenomena, is relatively easy to detect, both in an experiment and in a...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-quantum-tunnel-exact-instanton-transseries.html
Scientists have introduced a form of quantum entanglement known as frequency-domain photon number-path entanglement. This advance in quantum physics involves an innovative tool called a frequency...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-unveiling-quantum-frontier-frequency-domain.html
Researchers Kazuaki Takasan and Kyogo Kawaguchi of the University of Tokyo with Kyosuke Adachi of RIKEN, Japan, have demonstrated that ferromagnetism, an ordered state of atoms, can be induced by...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-mechanism-formation-quantum.html
The IRIS infrared beamline at the BESSY II storage ring now offers a fourth option for characterizing materials, cells and even molecules on different length scales. The team has extended the IRI...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-iris-beamline-bessy-ii-nanospectroscopy.html
In most industrial chemical reactions, catalysts combine with the starting materials and accompany them through intermediate stages to the product. In chemistry, this pathway is known as the reac...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-chemical-rope-molecular-mechanism-trial.html
Photonic quantum computers are computational tools that leverage quantum physics and utilize particles of light (i.e., photons) as units of information processing. These computers could eventuall...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-heralded-photon-entanglement-photonic-chip.html
Entanglement is a form of correlation between quantum objects, such as particles at the atomic scale. The laws of classical physics cannot explain this uniquely quantum phenomenon, yet it is one ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-scientists-tune-entanglement-array-qubits.html
Much like how electric circuits use components to control electronic signals, quantum networks rely on special components and nodes to transfer quantum information between different points, formi...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-vacancy-centers-diamond-blocks-large.html
In a new study published inNature Physics, scientists at the MAJORANA Collaboration have tested the stringency of charge conservation and Pauli's exclusion principles using underground detectors....
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-scientists-majorana-collaboration-violating-electrons.html
By modifying a refrigerator commonly used in both research and industry, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have drastically reduced the time and energy requ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-big-quantum-chill-scientists-common.html
Researchers at Tohoku University and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency have developed fundamental experiments and theories to manipulate the geometry of the "electron universe," which describes the ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-geometry-electron-universe-magnets.html
The fierce competition between China and the United States of America for control of emerging technologies such as AI and 5G will determine the international balance of power, a new study says.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-international-power-chinese-emerging-technologies.html
Quantum physics requires high-precision sensing techniques to delve deeper into the microscopic properties of materials. From the analog quantum processors that have emerged recently, quantum-gas...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-birth-quione-unique-analog-quantum.html
Researchers simulated a key quantum state at one of the largest scales reported, with support from the Quantum Computing User Program, or QCUP, at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National La...
An international collaboration of researchers, led by Philip Walther at University of Vienna, have achieved a significant breakthrough in quantum technology, with the successful demonstration of ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-compact-quantum-advances-optical.html
Quantum technology is based on the engineering of devices that make use of the quantum properties of matter. One of the most prominent avenues of this technology is quantum computing, which may b...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-access-burgeoning-quantum-technology-field.html
In principle, one shouldn't compare apples to oranges. However, in topology, which is a branch of mathematics, one must do just that. Apples and oranges, it turns out, are said to be topologicall...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-reveals-topological-reversal-quantum.html
Modern physics suggests time may be an illusion. Einstein's theory of relativity, for example, suggests the universe is a static, four-dimensional block that contains all of space and time simult...
Researchers have produced, stored, and retrieved quantum information for the first time, a critical step in quantum networking.
A team of scientists has developed a method that harnesses the structure of light to twist and tweak the properties of quantum materials. Their results, published today in Nature, pave the way fo...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-quantum-properties-2d-materials-tailored.html
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen's Niels Bohr Institute have developed a new way to create quantum memory: A small drum can store data sent with light in its sonic vibrations, and then...
Researchers at the University of Würzburg have developed a method that can improve the performance of quantum resistance standards. It's based on a quantum phenomenon called Quantum Anomalous Ha...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-quantum-hall-resistor-method.html
In a significant milestone for quantum communication technology, an experiment has demonstrated how networks can be leveraged to combat disruptive 'noise' in quantum communications.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-combating-disruptive-noise-quantum-communication.html
It's Saturday, which means that in a universe where the arrow of time moves backward, people have to go to work tomorrow. In such a hypothetical universe, Garfield hates Fridays—tough to imagin...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-saturday-citations-bird-qubits-impossible.html
The full power of next-generation quantum computing could soon be harnessed by millions of individuals and companies, thanks to a breakthrough by scientists at Oxford University Physics guarantee...