Public Release: 2-May-2018 Yale University IMAGE: Yale physicists looked for a signature of a discrete time crystal within a crystal of monoammonium phosphate. Credit: Michael Marsland/Yale University New Haven, Conn. – Yale physicists have uncovered hints of a time… Read More ›
Quantum Science
All Things Quantum:
“The Mage’s of Tomorrow will be the Quantum manipulators of today”
Sub fields include: (wikipedia)
Quantum computing, which deals on the one hand with the question how and whether one can build a quantum computer and on the other hand, algorithms that harness its power (see quantum algorithm)
Quantum complexity theory
Quantum cryptography and its generalization, quantum communication
Quantum error correction
Quantum communication complexity
Quantum entanglement, as seen from an information-theoretic point of view
Quantum dense coding
Quantum teleportation is one well-known quantum information processing operation which reliably transfers an unknown quantum state from one point to another distant point, destroying the original state in the process
Plus many many more…..
‘The dark side’ of quantum computers
Public Release: 13-Sep-2017 Eindhoven University of Technology The era of fully fledged quantum computers threatens to destroy internet security as we know it. Researchers are in a race against time to prepare new cryptographic techniques before the arrival of… Read More ›
Connecting up the quantum internet
Public Release: 11-Sep-2017 First practical building blocks for a global quantum internet Centre for Quantum Computation & Communication Technology IMAGE: Dr Rose Ahlefeldt and A. Prof Matthew Sellars operating a high resolution dye laser (used to study rare… Read More ›
Black holes may have punctured darkened galaxies, allowing light to escape
Public Release: 30-Aug-2017 Researchers propose how the universe became filled with light University of Iowa Soon after the Big Bang, the universe went completely dark. The intense, seminal event that created the cosmos churned up so much hot, thick… Read More ›
The world’s most powerful X-ray laser beam creates ‘molecular black hole’
Public Release: 8-Jun-2017 DOE/Argonne National Laboratory Caption A team of researchers, including several physicists from the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, discovered that a molecule containing a large atom could act like a molecular ‘black hole’… Read More ›
Study reveals evidence that the universe is a hologram
Public Release: 30-Jan-2017 University of Waterloo The first observational evidence that the universe could be a hologram has been published in the journal Physical Review Letters. The international study may lead to new beliefs on the Big Bang Theory… Read More ›
First use of quantum technology to create a random number generator that is both tiny and fast
Public Release: 8-Sep-2016 New chip could bring highest level of encryption to any mobile device The Optical Society Caption Using photonic integrated circuit technology, researchers made a tiny, yet fast quantum random number generator. The small chip in… Read More ›
Everything is immortal "The cup is now found at any and every time,” ‘T violation’
Public Release: 17-Aug-2016 How we escaped from the Big Bang Griffith’s theory on moving through time Griffith University Associate Professor Dr Joan Vaccaro, of Griffith’s Centre for Quantum Dynamics, has solved an anomaly of conventional physics and shown that a… Read More ›
Weird quantum effects stretch across hundreds of miles
Public Release: 19-Jul-2016 Massachusetts Institute of Technology CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In the world of quantum, infinitesimally small particles, weird and often logic-defying behaviors abound. Perhaps the strangest of these is the idea of superposition, in which objects can exist… Read More ›
Schrödinger’s cat is alive and dead in 2 places at once
PUBLIC RELEASE: 26-MAY-2016 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE Through new experiments involving the famous Schrödinger cat state paradox, researchers have shown that a “quantum cat” can be both alive and dead, and in two places at once…. Read More ›
Computing a secret, unbreakable key
Public Release: 20-May-2016 Researchers develop the first available software to evaluate the security of any protocol for Quantum Key Distribution University of Waterloo What once took months by some of the world’s leading scientists can now be done in… Read More ›
Are humans the new supercomputer?
Public Release: 13-Apr-2016 Today, people of all backgrounds can contribute to solving serious scientific problems by playing computer games. A Danish research group has extended the limits of quantum physics calculations and simultaneously blurred the boundaries between man and… Read More ›
Five-dimensional black hole could ‘break’ general relativity
Public Release: 18-Feb-2016 University of Cambridge Researchers have shown how a bizarrely shaped black hole could cause Einstein’s general theory of relativity, a foundation of modern physics, to break down. However, such an object could only exist in a… Read More ›
Quantum knots are real!
Public Release: 19-Jan-2016 Aalto University IMAGE: Visualization of the structure of the created quantum knot. Each colorful band represents a set of nearby directions of the quantum field that is knotted. Note that each band is twisted and linked… Read More ›
Swedish researchers reveal quantum security hole
“They found that energy-time entanglement – the method that today forms the basis for many systems of quantum cryptography – is vulnerable to attack.” Public Release: 18-Dec-2015 Hacking the Bell Test using classical light in energy-time entanglement-based quantum key… Read More ›
Is the universe a hologram?
Public Release: 27-Apr-2015 Describing the universe requires fewer dimensions than we might think; new calculations show that this may not just be a mathematical trick, but a fundamental feature of space itself Vienna University of Technology IMAGE: Is our… Read More ›
Einstein wrong on quantum entanglement
Public Release: 24-Mar-2015 Quantum experiment verifies Einstein’s ‘spooky action at a distance’ Griffith University, University of Tokyo homodyne measurements show what Einstein did not believe to be real: the non-local collapse of a particle’s wave function Griffith University IMAGE: This… Read More ›
In the quantum world, the future affects the past: Hindsight and foresight together more accurately ‘predict’ a quantum system’s state
Date: February 9, 2015 In the quantum world, the future predicts the past. Playing a guessing game with a superconducting circuit called a qubit, a physicist has discovered a way to narrow the odds of correctly guessing the state of a… Read More ›
Quantum Theory Shows No Big Bang, Universe Has no Beginning
Tuesday, 10 February 2015 The universe may have existed forever, according to a new model that applies quantum correction terms to complement Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The model may also account for dark matter and dark energy, resolving… Read More ›
Atoms can be in 2 places at the same time
Public Release: 20-Jan-2015 Researchers of the University of Bonn have shown that cesium atoms do not follow well-defined paths University of Bonn The Bonn team has developed a measurement scheme that indirectly measures the position of an atom. In essence,… Read More ›
Spooky alignment of quasars across billions of light-years
Artist’s Impression of Mysterious Alignment of Quasar Rotation Axes Caption: This artist’s impression shows schematically the mysterious alignments between the spin axes of quasars and the large-scale structures that they inhabit that observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope have revealed…. Read More ›
Could studying the universe DESTROY it? Changing our perception of the cosmos could end it if quantum theories are correct
This is based on strange way quantum states are affected when observed In Schrödinger’s cat experiment, a cat in a box, whose fate is decided by subatomic particles, is both alive and dead until someone looks at it According to… Read More ›
Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram
A ten-dimensional theory of gravity makes the same predictions as standard quantum physics in fewer dimensions. Ron Cowen 10 December 2013 At a black hole, Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity apparently clashes with quantum physics, but that conflict could be… Read More ›
‘Spooky action’ builds a wormhole between ‘entangled’ particles
Vince StricherzNews and Information Posted under: News Releases, Research, Science Quantum entanglement, a perplexing phenomenon of quantum mechanics that Albert Einstein once referred to as “spooky action at a distance,” could be even spookier than Einstein perceived. Alan Stonebraker/American Physical… Read More ›
Quantum world record smashed
Contact: University of Oxford Press Office press.office@admin.ox.ac.uk 44-186-528-3877 University of Oxford A normally fragile quantum state has been shown to survive at room temperature for a world record 39 minutes, overcoming a key barrier towards building ultrafast quantum… Read More ›
Quantum ‘sealed envelope’ system enables ‘perfectly secure’ information storage
Contact: Adrian Kent apak@damtp.cam.ac.uk 44-122-376-0379 University of Cambridge A breakthrough in quantum cryptography demonstrates that information can be encrypted and then decrypted with complete security using the combined power of quantum theory and relativity – allowing the sender to dictate… Read More ›
Entangled toy universe shows time may be an illusion
20:22 25 October 2013 by Jacob Aron For similar stories, visit the Quantum World Topic Guide Time is an illusion – at least in a toy model of the universe made of two particles of light. The experiment shows… Read More ›
Scientists prove Heisenberg’s intuition correct : Coded messages are disturbed by the Eavesdropper ;-)
Contact: Caron Lett caron.lett@york.ac.uk 44-019-043-22029 University of York An international team of scientists has provided proof of a key feature of quantum physics – Heisenberg’s error-disturbance relation – more than 80 years after it was first suggested. One of the… Read More ›
Quantum Teleportation Between Atomic Systems Over Long Distances
There are two glass containers, each containing a cloud of billions of caesium gas atoms. Both glass containers are enclosed in a chamber with a magnetic field. The two glass containers are not connected to each other, but information is… Read More ›
Quantum effects get a weirdness scale
25 April 2013 by Jacob Aron Magazine issue 2914. Subscribe and save For similar stories, visit the Quantum World Topic Guide SCHRÖDINGER’S cat, both dead and alive at once, was always meant to be a thought experiment, but will… Read More ›
Russia develops new-type spaceship
Vladimir Popovkin Photo: The Voice of Russia Russia is developing a principally new type of a spaceship for interplanetary flights, the head of the Roscosmos Space Agency told reporters on April 12, which is traditionally marked as Cosmonautics Day in… Read More ›
Iranian scientist claims to have invented ‘Time Machine’ that can predict the future
Serial inventor Ali Razeghi registered “The Aryayek Time Traveling Machine” with Iran’s state-run Centre for Strategic Inventions Rob Williams Thursday, 11 April 2013 An Iranian scientist has claimed to have invented a ‘time machine’ that can predict the future of… Read More ›
Alien megaprojects: The hunt has begun
09 April 2013 by Stephen Battersby Magazine issue 2911. Subscribe and save For similar stories, visit the Astrobiology Topic Guide With scans for alien radio signals drawing a blank, three teams are now searching for signs of extraterrestrial engineering… Read More ›
Speed of Light May Not Be Fixed, Scientists Suggest; Ephemeral Vacuum Particles Induce Speed-Of-Light Fluctuations
Illustration: Ephemeral vacuum particles induce speed-of-light fluctuations. (Credit: Image courtesy of Springer) Mar. 25, 2013 — Two forthcoming European Physical Journal D papers challenge established wisdom about the nature of vacuum. In one paper, Marcel Urban from the University of… Read More ›
Researchers explore quantum entanglement: superluminal
Contact: Leanne Yohemas lmyohema@ucalgary.ca 402-220-7722 University of Calgary Paper in Physical Review Letters delves into phenomenon Einstein called ‘spooky’ Albert Einstein called quantum entanglement—two particles in different locations, even on other sides of the universe, influencing each other—”spooky action at… Read More ›
Do we live in a computer simulation? UW researchers say idea can be tested
By Vince StricherzNews and Information A decade ago, a British philosopher put forth the notion that the universe we live in might in fact be a computer simulation run by our descendants. While that seems far-fetched, perhaps even incomprehensible, a… Read More ›
8 Things we learned from Stephen Hawking’s new book
Sunday, 25 November 2012 From the idea that our universe is one among many, to the revelation that mathematician Pythagoras didn’t actually invent the Pythagorean theorem, here are eight shocking things we learned from reading physicist Stephen Hawking’s new book,… Read More ›
Quantum crypto – with nothing more than STANDARD broadband fibre
Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/20/quantum_crypto_breakthrough/ Theoretical un-crackability cracked By John Leyden Posted in Security, 20th November 2012 17:58 GMT Free whitepaper – Blue Coat Systems 2012 Malnet Report Boffins have worked out how to run quantum cryptography systems over a standard broadband… Read More ›
Treating Chocolate with Happy Thoughts, Makes the Consumer Happier too.
“Treated” chocolate makes you happier CHOCOLATE has wonderful powers – witness our report last week on the correlation between per-capita chocolate consumption and a nation’s haul of Nobel prizes (3 November). Now Tony Burton points us to the apparently very… Read More ›
Entangle Schrödinger’s cat to up its quantum weirdness
18:05 01 November 2012 by Jacob Aron For similar stories, visit the Quantum World Topic Guide Nothing is more adorable than a kitten playing with string, but when Schrödinger’s cat becomes entangled, things get really weird.Two research teams have independently… Read More ›
Near-death experiences occur when the soul leaves the nervous system and enters the universe, claim two quantum physics experts
Ground-breaking theory holds that quantum substances form the soul They are part of the fundamental structure of the universe By Damien Gayle PUBLISHED:05:38 EST, 30 October 2012| UPDATED:06:26 EST, 30 October 2012 Life after death: Dr Stuart Hameroff, Professor Emeritus … Read More ›
Faster-than-light communication, the hidden influence of inequality and the possibility of infinite speed
Contact: Jenny Hogan jenny.hogan@quantumlah.org 65-651-64302 Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore Researchers look beyond space and time to cope with quantum theory IMAGE: Trying to explain quantum “spooky action at a distance” using any kind of… Read More ›
Can your body sense future events without any external clue?
Contact: Hilary Hurd Anyaso h-anyaso@northwestern.edu 847-491-4887 Northwestern University New Northwestern analysis focuses on ‘pre-feelings’ and ability to anticipate the near future EVANSTON, Ill. — Wouldn’t it be amazing if our bodies prepared us for future events that could be very… Read More ›
Do we live in the Matrix? Researchers say they have found a way to find out
Any simulation of the universe must have limits, and finding these would prove we live in an artificial reality, physicists claim By Damien Gayle PUBLISHED:08:15 EST, 11 October 2012| UPDATED:08:28 EST, 11 October 2012 If the Matrix left you with… Read More ›
Philosophy will be the key that unlocks artificial intelligence
AI is achievable, but it will take more than computer science and neuroscience to develop machines that think like people David Deutsch guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 3 October 2012 02.00 EDT The defining attribute of an intelligent being, whether human… Read More ›
Photon reaches from beyond the grave in quantum trick: “The future photon, which is not born, is strongly influenced by a photon that is already dead.”
Photon reaches from beyond the grave in quantum trick 04 October 2012 by Anil Ananthaswamy Magazine issue 2885. For similar stories, visit the Quantum World Topic Guide EINSTEIN mockingly called it “spooky action at a distance”: the finding that quantum… Read More ›
13 things that do not make sense
Re-Posted from 2005 19 March 2005 by Michael Brooks 1 The placebo effect Don’t try this at home. Several times a day, for several days, you induce pain in someone. You control the pain with morphine until the final… Read More ›
Moving plane exchanges quantum keys with Earth
16 September 2012 by Jacob Aron For similar stories, visit the Quantum World Topic Guide AN AEROPLANE has beamed quantum encryption keys to a station on the ground, paving the way for an ultra-secure global communications network. Quantum key… Read More ›
Q Fever microbe’s genome is deciphered
Study sheds light on potential bioterror agent, Coxiella burnetii Rockville, MD — Scientists at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and their collaborators have deciphered and analyzed the complete genome sequence of Coxiella burnetii, a potential bioterror agent that causes… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 