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 ...
Tag: quantum physics
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, ...
Truly random numbers might be generated with quantum physics
Does flicking a dice really render a random face? The answer would be no. The dice is governed by large-scale ...
Watch Quantum Levitation in action [AMAZING!]
What you just saw in the video above is a perfect demonstration of the quantum levitation effect, through a fairly ...