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…..
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 crystal — a form of matter that “ticks” […]
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 quantum computers, as cryptographers Tanja Lange (Eindhoven University […]
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 earth crystals) in the solid state spectroscopy laboratory […]
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 gas that light was completely trapped. Much later–perhaps […]
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’ when exposed to ultrafast laser pulses, sucking in […]
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 and on quantum gravity, one of theoretical physics’ […]
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 the middle of the picture contains two of […]
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 mysterious effect called ‘T violation’ could be the […]
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 simultaneously in two or more seemingly counterintuitive states. […]
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. The results, which involve inducing a large number […]
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 seconds by undergraduate students thanks to software developed […]
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 mac Aarhus University The saying of philosopher René […]
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 universe with five or more dimensions. The researchers, […]
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 with the others once. Untying the knot requires […]
“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 distribution Linköping University Quantum cryptography is considered a […]
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 universe a hologram? Credit: TU Wien At first […]
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 is professor Howard Wiseman, Director of Griffith University’s […]
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 two-state system. By combining information about the qubit’s […]
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 multiple problems at once. The widely accepted age […]
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, one looks where the cesium atom is not. […]
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. These alignments are over billions of light-years and […]
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 two U.S. scientists, the same thing could happen […]
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 solved if the Universe were a holographic projection. […]
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 Society This illustration demonstrates a wormhole connecting two […]
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 computers. An international team including Stephanie Simmons of […]
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 the unveiling of coded information without any possibility […]
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 that what we perceive as the passage of […]
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 basic concepts in the world of quantum mechanics […]
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 teleported from the one glass cloud to the […]
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 ordinary objects or your favourite feline ever enter […]
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 Russia. “We are already through with the technical […]
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 any individual with a 98 per cent accuracy. […]
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 ALIENS: where are you? Our hopes of finding […]
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 Paris-Sud, located in Orsay, France and his colleagues […]
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 a distance.” Einstein made the comment while criticizing […]
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 team of physicists at the University of Washington […]
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, “The Grand Design,” written with fellow physicist Leonard […]
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 fibre in a development that brings theoretically unbreakable […]
“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 serious paper “Effects of Intentionally Enhanced Chocolate on […]
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 added an extra layer of quantum oddity – […]
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 at the University of Arizona, advanced the theory […]
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 signal pits Einstein’s relativity against our concept of […]
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 important to us, even if there’s no clue […]
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 the niggling fear that we might indeed be […]
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 or machine, is creativity. Photograph: Sebastian Kaulitzki/Alamy To […]
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 particles can influence each other regardless of how […]
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 day of the experiment, when you replace the […]
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 distribution (QKD) uses photons polarised in two different […]
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 Q Fever. C. burnetii, which was first isolated […]
