One of the great mysteries of the universe is why there is so much more matter than antimatter. Now a new experiment is helping us understand the nature of antimatter better than ever before.
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A new technique can remove noise from tiny electronic circuits, raising hopes of extremely efficient electronics and quantum technologies.
The Micius satellite will encrypt data using fundamental laws of physics rather than crackable codes.
Forget solid, liquid, gas. This research used advanced math to theorize about topological phases of matter. And over the years experiments with matter and cold atoms have been validating the ideas.
Physicists have theorised about the existence of a magnetic monopole for decades, but we have yet to find one.
Here’s how they could revolutionise science.
As the components in electronic devices are shrinking to the nanoscale, even a single atom out of place can disrupt their function. But this also presents an opportunity to make them even better.
Testing the bizarre theory of quantum mechanics isn’t easy, but scientists are making progress.
Scientists say they’ve have closed the loopholes on an experiment that tests a half-century old theory in quantum mechanics.So what does it reveal?
The idea that our universe is just one in a ‘multiverse’ of parallel universes is increasingly gathering attention from cosmologists. But can we ever test the theory?
The information paradox is one of the great mysteries in our understanding of black holes. But has the famous theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking found the solution?
We may have to rewrite physics textbooks after a material that can act both like a conductor and an insulator simultaneously has been discovered.
As hackers get more sophisticated in their cyber crime efforts we need to look to new technology to make our systems more secure, and potentially unhackable. So how can quantum physics help?
It’s time we embraced quantum mechanics and stopped trying to explain away its weirdness.
It’s a century-old debate: what is the meaning of the wave function, the central object of quantum mechanics? Is Schrödinger’s cat really dead and alive? I was recently involved in an experiment conducted…
The past year has provided some of the most interesting developments in quantum mechanics to date. The field is more than 100 years old and has been tested to unimaginable precision, yet some of its most…
Parallel universes – worlds where the dinosaur-killing asteroid never hit, or where Australia was colonised by the Portuguese – are a staple of science fiction. But are they real? In a radical paper published…
There is an up-and-coming set of technologies that uses the strange properties of atomic particles predicted by the theory of quantum mechanics, which is the physics of the very small stuff. This technology…
Albert Einstein may be most famous for his mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc2, but his work also laid down the foundation for modern quantum mechanics. His analysis of the “spookiness” of quantum…
If you’re one of the thousands of smartphone users experiencing battery drain, you’d have been pleased to read that Tel Aviv-based start-up StoreDot recently unveiled a prototype charger that fully charges…
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Director, Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University
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Podcast host, The Conversation
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Associate Professor, Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Physics and Director of the Lancaster Quantum Technology Centre, Lancaster University
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Lecturer, Newcastle University
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Emeritus Professor, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, OzGrav, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Quantum Optics & Quantum Physics, University of Rochester
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Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Honorary senior lecturer, Australian National University
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Post Doctoral Research Associate, Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter, University of Adelaide
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Professor in Physics, Griffith University
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