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Fast quantum computer building block created

August 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 41 vote(s) | User comments: 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- The fastest quantum computer bit that exploits the main advantage of the qubit over the conventional bit has been demonstrated by researchers at University of Michigan, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and ...


Superfluid-superconductor relationship is detailed

August 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 28 vote(s) | User comments: 3

Scientists have studied superconductors and superfluids for decades. Now, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have drawn the first detailed picture of the way a superfluid influences the behavior of a superconductor. ...


Olympic Swimmers Shattering Records in NASA-Tested Suit

August 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | User comments: 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Swimmers from around the world are setting world and Olympic records in Beijing this month and most are doing it wearing a swimsuit made of fabric tested at NASA.


Practical Cloaking Devices On The Horizon?

August 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 32 vote(s) | User comments: 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Invisibility cloaks get a step closer to realization, with the demonstration of a new material that can bend (visible) light the 'wrong' way for the first time in three dimensions.


New theory for latest high-temperature superconductors

August 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 44 vote(s) | User comments: 2

Physicists from Rice and Rutgers universities have published a new theory that explains some of the complex electronic and magnetic properties of iron "pnictides." In a series of startling discoveries this spring, pnictides ...


Magnetism and Superconductivity Observed to Exist in Harmony

9 hours ago | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 18 vote(s) | User comments: 2

(Physorg.com) -- Physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, along with colleagues at institutions in Switzerland and Canada, have observed, for the first time in a single exotic phase, a situation where magnetism and superconductivity ...


Physicists Explain Why Liquid Optical Fibers Don't Collapse

July 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 34 vote(s) | User comments: 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- For several years, physicists have known that liquid columns can be used to guide light. By trapping a light beam, a liquid column can act like an optical fiber, but with a liquid sheathing ...


New technique to compress light could open doors for optical communications

July 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 46 vote(s) | User comments: 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have devised a way to squeeze light into tighter spaces than ever thought possible, potentially opening doors to new technology in the fields of optical ...


Researchers explain odd oxygen bonding under pressure

August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 28 vote(s) | User comments: 1

Oxygen, the third most abundant element in the cosmos and essential to life on Earth, changes its forms dramatically under pressure transforming to a solid with spectacular colors. Eventually it becomes metallic ...


'Top Secret' Technology To Help U.S. Swimmers Trim Times at Beijing Olympics

August 12, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 23 vote(s) | User comments: 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Milliseconds can mean the difference between triumph and defeat in the world of Olympic sports, leading more trainers and athletes to look toward technology as a tool to get an edge on the ...


Operating quantum memory at room temperature

August 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 38 vote(s) | User comments: 1

Quantum dots, along with quantum wires, have been attracting notice over the past decade as possible building blocks of quantum information processing. Indium arsenide quantum dots (InAs) can be used for memory operations ...


The hunt for the Higgs steps up a gear

10 hours ago | User rating: 4 / 5 after 11 vote(s) | User comments: 1

The hunt for the Higgs boson, the most highly sought-after particle in physics, received a boost this month with the release of two new results from the Tevatron particle collider at the US Department of Energy's ...


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