 Viterbi Algorithm goes quantum July 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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The Viterbi Algorithm, the elegant 41-year-old logical tool for rapidly eliminating dead end possibilities in data transmission, has a new application to go alongside its ubiquitous daily use in cell phone ... | |
Rochester physicist's quantum-'uncollapse' hypothesis verified August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 59 vote(s)
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In 2006, Andrew Jordan, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester, together with Alexander Korotkov at the University of California, Riverside, spelled out how to exploit a quantum quirk to accomplish ... | |
 'Single-Crystal' Superconductors are a Big Step for the Field 14 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 ... | |
 The brightest, sharpest, fastest X-ray holograms yet August 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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The pinhole camera, a technique known since ancient times, has inspired a futuristic technology for lensless, three-dimensional imaging. Working at both the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the U.S. Department ... | |
 Physicists Transmit Light through Opaque Materials August 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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No matter how thick an opaque "scattering material" is, physicists have shown how to weave light through tiny open channels in the material, so that the light passes through on the other side. | |
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 ... | |
Superfluid-superconductor relationship is detailed August 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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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. ... | |
 Physicists Explain Why Liquid Optical Fibers Don't Collapse July 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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(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 ... | |
 Skipping Atomic-scale Stones to Study Some Chemistry Basics August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Thought experiment: a carbon dioxide molecule—think of a cheerleader’s baton—comes slanting in at high speed over a dense liquid, strikes the surface and ricochets. How does it tumble? Fast or slow? Forward, ... | |
 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, ... | |
New Speed Record for Magnetic Memories August 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An experiment carried out at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) has realized spin torque switching of a nanomagnet as fast as the fundamental speed limit allows. Using this so-called ballistic ... | |
 CERN announces start-up date for Large Hadron Collider August 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 60 vote(s)
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CERN has today announced that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be made on 10 September. This news comes as the cool down phase of commissioning CERN's new particle ... | |
 Siemens builds a lock made of light: Data transfer using quantum cryptography August 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic communication is becoming more secure all over the world. Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Austrian Research Centers (ARC) and Graz University of Technology have joined forces ... | |
 Researchers make milestone discovery in quantum mechanics August 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 85 vote(s)
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Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have recently reached what they are calling a milestone in experimental quantum mechanics. | |
 Prelude to the Higgs: A work for 2 bosons in the key of Z July 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 40 vote(s)
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Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the US Department of Energy's Fermilab have announced the observation of pairs of Z bosons, force-carrying particles produced in proton-antiproton collisions at the ... | |
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