As companies make quantum computers available through their cloud services, take a look at what it means for computing to move beyond classical mechanics and into quantum physics.
‘Entangled’ beams successfully picked up at Earth.
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The ‘entangled’ light particles spookily interact with each other at huge distances.
When black holes collide, gravitational waves are created in space itself (image is a computer simulation).
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Einstein called entanglement “spooky action at a distance”. But now it’s been used to design an incredibly sensitive detection method for gravitational waves.
There’s a lot we still don’t know about antimatter.
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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.
Who knew the steam engine would prove so useful?
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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.
All the magnets we’ve ever seen have a north and a south, but there might be some out there that have only one end.
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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.
It’s proven: the universe is weird.
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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?
A simulated view of a black hole.
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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?
Current + lack of current = a headache for phycists.
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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 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…
Let’s take a look back through the past 12 months of quantum physics research.
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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…
Many different worlds but a finite number.
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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…