Our notion of reality is built on everyday experiences. But wave-particle duality is so strange that we are forced to re-examine our common conceptions. Wave-particle duality refers to the fundamental…
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Supercomputers have enabled breakthroughs in our ability to tackle a huge array of problems, from detailed studies of protein folding, to the dynamics of the Earth’s atmosphere and climate. Current research…
Researchers have developed the world’s fastest random number generator by ‘listening’ to the continuous quantum fluctuations…
Atoms cooled to extremely low temperatures have been observed entering a rare state called “quantum criticality”. Physicists…
Researchers at Ohio State University have used a new ultrafast camera to capture the first ever image of two atoms vibrating…
In a significant step forward, researchers have created a quantum system entangling eight photons, eclipsing the previous…
Some people seem born lucky. Everything they touch turns to gold. Others are dogged by misfortune. It’s not just people who might be lucky or unlucky – it can be single acts. When the ball hits a post…
A letter from Adolf Hitler formally expelling Max Born, the “father of quantum mechanics”, from a German university has been…
Detecting gravity waves is a major goal for astrophysicists. We know they should be there, but we haven’t found them yet. But today we are one step closer. By literally squeezing light on a quantum level…
Welcome to If I had a blank cheque … a series in which leading researchers reveal what they could (and would) do in their discipline if money were no object. Today we hear from Dr Jonathan Carroll, Postdoctoral…
Ever noticed that computers become outdated remarkably quickly? It’s nice to have increasingly powerful computers available, and very profitable for the computer industry to have a new model available…
By now we’re used to the idea that the world has four dimensions: three spatial and one temporal. But what if there were a fifth dimension – what would that dimension look like, and how would it relate…
Quantum teleportation has been in the news before but last week Japanese and Australian scientists went one better, managing to teleport every physicist’s favourite feline: Schrödinger’s cat. Before you…
Quantum mechanics (the theory of atoms, quarks and photons) is definitely weird and, thanks to the work I’m doing, it might be getting weirder. Allow me to throw a quantum spanner in the works. In the…
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Howard Wiseman is a Friend of The Conversation.Director, Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University
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Lecturer, Newcastle University
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Professor, UNSW
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Post Doctoral Research Associate, Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter, University of Adelaide
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Emeritus Professor, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, OzGrav, University of Western Australia
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Professor in Physics, Griffith University
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Associate Professor (ARC Future Fellow), Griffith University
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Professor and Director of the Lancaster Quantum Technology Centre, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Associate Professor of Quantum Optics & Quantum Physics, University of Rochester
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Associate professor, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Quantum Physics and Quantum Technology, University of Sydney
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Professor of Astrophysics, University of Sydney
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ARC Laureate Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology
