Physicists are a step closer to a theory of quantum gravity
A new study outlines the conditions that couple quantum gravity and low-energy physics.
Tag: quantum physics
Physicists measure quantum entanglement in chemical reactions
The discovery has implications for the improvement of technologies like solar energy systems.
‘Quantum compass’ can locate objects without GPS
The device is completely self-contained, being able to determine the position of an object on the globe with no external ...
Physicists may have solved ‘chicken or the egg’ paradox — both can come first
Of course it had to be weird and confusing.
Scientists demonstrate quantum entanglement with objects big enough to see
'Spooky action at a distance' is approaching the human scale.
Quantum technology of spinning black holes
Are black holes trying to tell us something?
Musk’s argument that we live in a simulation doesn’t hold water, quantum physicists say
The blue pill or the red pill?
China launches first quantum satellite making its communications unhackable
Teleporting quantum states might the future of communications, and China is leading the way.
Water squeezed in a new state: not liquid, nor solid or gas. Just pure quantum weirdness
Physicists have crammed water inside extremely small cracks about ten-billionth of a metre and found the molecules entered a never ...
Gamers help solve quantum physics problem where A.I. failed
After an A.I. beat the human champion at Go, a game almost infinitely more complex than chess, some might feel ...
Book review: ‘The Quantum Moment’
How the quantum moment "overturned basic beliefs about space and time, causality and reality, and exposed as mistaken many fundamental ...
Quantum physics used to make virtually uncrackable authentication system
Security experts have devised a novel authentication system that exploits quantum effects to make fraud-proof credit cards or IDs. Called Quantum-Secure ...
Measuring particle momentum without breaking the uncertainty principle
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle makes quantum physics nasty. There's no reason why we can't get all along, though. A novel technique ...
Quantum theory takes out singularity, suggests black holes are wormholes
Black holes are the single most interesting and puzzling objects in our Universe - that we know of. But as ...
Scientists image an atom’s shadow for the first time
With implications for everything from quantum computing to microbiology, scientists have for the first time imaged ...
Physicists quantum teleport photons over 143 kilometers
Last May, European scientists managed to teleport photons using quantum phenomena over a distance of 143 kilometers, across two Canary ...
Scientists devise qubits in a semiconductor for the first time
Hailed as yet another big step towards devising working quantum computers, scientists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have successfully managed to generate quantum ...
Scientists cool semiconductor with laser light
[caption id="attachment_11274" align="alignright" width="225" caption="Koji Usami, one of the researchers involved in the paper, maneuvering the experiment at the Quantop ...
Solar paint promises to turn any surface into a solar cell
Researchers have successfully managed to create a "solar paint" made out of quantum dots, which exhibits similar properties to multifilm solar ...
The age of nano-electronics: scientists develop one of the world’s smallest circuits
A team of researchers from led by Guillaume Gervais from McGill's Physics Department and Mike Lilly from Sandia National Laboratories, ...
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