 'Single-Crystal' Superconductors are a Big Step for the Field 15 hours ago | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In key advances for the field of superconductivity, a research group has created versions of a class of widely studied superconducting compounds that are each one continuous crystal, rather ... | |
Magnetism and Superconductivity Observed to Exist in Harmony 9 hours ago | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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(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 ... | |
 Scientists reveal effects of quantum 'traffic jam' in high-temperature superconductors August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, in collaboration with colleagues at Cornell University, Tokyo University, the University of California, Berkeley, ... | |
Physicists 'See' Single Top Quarks at the Tevatron August 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 74 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the world's largest fully operating particle accelerator, the Tevatron at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Illinois, have discovered convincing evidence suggesting the existence ... | |
Operating quantum memory at room temperature August 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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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 ... | |
 Scientists identify quantum differences between light and heavy water August 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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Scientists know that light water (H2O) and heavy water (D2O) have similar but not identical structures. Using quantum mechanics, researchers have recently identified several differences ... | |
 Japanese physicists aim to unlock universe's mysteries August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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As the world's scientists try to unzip mysteries about the universe, Japan is set to open its largest atomic science park to study the world at its smallest level. | |
 First particles observed in Large Hadron Collider August 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 41 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Glasgow scientists, working at CERN, have observed the first particles in the Large Hadron Collider during preliminary tests ahead of the switch-on next month. | |
Entanglement without Classical Correlations August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 49 vote(s)
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Quantum mechanics is full of counterintuitive concepts. The idea of entanglement – when two or more particles instantaneously exhibit dependent characteristics when measured, no matter how far apart they are – is one of them. ... | |
 The hunt for the Higgs steps up a gear 10 hours ago | User rating: 4 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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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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