First Phase of Europe’s Huge New Atom Smasher Could Be 20 Years Away
The idea that an underground river was frozen to make it possible to build the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is…
Category: Quantum Mechanics
Scientists Create World’s First “Quantum Semiconductor”
Small parts found in modern electronic devices that control the flow of electrons are known as semiconductor devices. They are…
Scientists Slowed Down Light by 10,000 Times in an Experiment
Researchers have already shown that light can be slowed down in some situations, and a recent study shows how to…
Quantum Leap in Graphite: Attoscience Lights the Way to Superconductivity
X-ray absorption spectroscopy is a commonly used analytical technique for studying the composition of materials or substances. It is selective…
Groundbreaking “Dark” Nanoparticle Experiment Set To Unveil Mysteries of the Macroscopic Quantum World
A glass bead with nanoscale dimensions that is evolving in a potential generated by magnetic or electrostatic forces reaches a…
World First As Stable Qubit For Quantum Computers Achieved At Room Temperature
Researchers have succeeded in achieving quantum coherence at ambient temperature, which is the capacity of a quantum system to…
New World Record Set For Nuclear Fusion Energy Output
Merely 0.2 milligrammes of fuel were required to generate sufficient energy to run 12,000 households. This week has seen…
World’s largest gravitational wave observatory squeezes light beyond the ‘quantum limit’
Frequency-dependent squeezing is a novel approach employed by LIGO gravitational wave observatory researchers to enhance weak signals above quantum…
Mysterious ‘sudden death’ of quantum vortices in a superconductor stumps scientists
The emergence of spontaneous quantum chaos in atomically thin layers of insulating material has baffled scientists, necessitating model changes that…
Scientists believe they have discovered a portal to the Fifth Dimension
According to a recent study, dark matter may be explained by a particle connected to a fifth dimension. (The…