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Science News
August 6, 2005 |
From the August 3, 1935, issue Zeppelin Models Whirled at 200 Miles Per Hour in Tests... Prof. Bohr Opposes Einstein in Quantum Theory Controversy...   |
Chemistry World
April 29, 2013
Philip Ball |
Quantum leaps of faith There's no reason to suppose that the way quantum mechanics was discovered is the most logical or obvious means to comprehend its conceptual foundations. In some recent re-evaluations of quantum theory, the 'quantum' becomes almost incidental. |
Chemistry World
February 22, 2015
Matt Gunther |
Einstein was right! In his new book, Einstein was right!, Karl Hess attempts to understand Einstein's motivations for criticizing quantum theory and how, in the end, he was right to do so. |
Chemistry World
September 3, 2014
Philip Ball |
Does life play dice? Those two attention-grabbers, physics and biology, are appropriating what essentially belongs to chemistry. All of the facets of quantum biology that are so far reasonably established, or at least well grounded in experiment and theory, are chemical ones. |
Scientific American
August 2007
JR Minkel |
The Gedanken Experimenter In putting teleportation, entanglement and other quantum oddities to the test, physicist Anton Zeilinger hopes to find out just how unreal quantum reality can get. |
Popular Mechanics
February 11, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Could Someone Really Teleport Out of Jail?: Fringe Fact vs. Fiction In last night's episode of Fringe, "Ability," a man teleports out of prison. Scientists offer insight on how close this is to reality. |
Science News
May 14, 2005 |
From the May 11, 1935, Issue Pastime of Kings Revived... New Anti-Aircraft "Ears" Hear "Enemy" 12 Miles Away... Einstein Attacks Quantum Mechanics... |
Science News
July 18, 2009
Paul Fendley |
Five Problems In Physics Without The Definite Article Most physicists don't consider a phenomenon to be understood until there are both repeatable experiments displaying it and a quantitative theoretical description. |
Technology Research News
June 30, 2004 |
Chip protects single atoms Researchers have found a way to closely control the quantum states, or traits, of single atoms trapped in a microchip. The method is a step toward building devices like miniature atomic clocks that are an order of magnitude more accurate than those that exist today. |
Chemistry World
June 27, 2012
Caryl Richards |
Theory of quantum optical devices Semiconductor Quantum Optics by Mackillo Kira and Stephan Koch is an extremely detailed description that rapidly builds on the fundamental concepts to the more esoteric light - -matter phenomena in low-dimensional semiconductors. |
CIO
March 15, 2002
John Edwards |
Quantum Leap A quantum physics breakthrough could turn pipe dreams, such as ultra-high-speed quantum computers and teleportation, into real-world technologies... |
Reason
March 2007
Kenneth Silber |
No Small Matter Is theoretical physics stuck? And should you worry? Book Review: The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next, by Lee Smolin. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2012
Michael Brooks |
Quantum Cash and the End of Counterfeiting Physicists say they can make money that can't be copied -- at least in theory |
BusinessWeek
March 15, 2004
John Carey |
Physics: "Putting The Weirdness To Work" Scientists say quantum materials will be the basis for amazing devices, but when? |
Wired
January 2005
Duff McDonald |
The BlackBerry Brain Trust First Mike Lazaridis reinvented the way we get email. Now he's rounded up a bunch of radical thinkers to reinvent physics itself at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. |
National Defense
March 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Researchers Cast Wary Eye On Atomic-Level Computing Experts point out that quantum computers could execute calculations several millions of times faster than conventional systems, but that the technology still is years away from becoming truly functional. |
Technology Research News
September 10, 2003 |
Quantum computing has limits Researchers from the University of Arkansas and Texas A&M University have shown that quantum computers, while theoretically useful for very large problems, are likely to always need very large amounts of power. |
Chemistry World
July 23, 2014
Jonathan Prance |
The quantum age In this entertaining and accessible book, Brian Clegg explains the weirdness of quantum mechanics through the effects it has on the world around us and the technologies we use |
Chemistry World
June 20, 2013
Jim Al-Khalili |
Change: the only constant Today, there is much interest in a wide range of biological phenomena that may have a quantum origin, from our sense of smell to photosynthesis and mutations in DNA. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2010
Erico Guizzo |
Loser: D-Wave Does Not Quantum Compute D-Wave Systems' quantum computers look to be bigger, costlier, and slower than conventional ones |
Chemistry World
August 14, 2012
Josh Howgego |
Quantum mechanics In Search of Schrodinger's Cat, by John Gribbin is a book about how scientists struggled to describe what the nature of reality is really like. Along with tales of the great men who have worked on the puzzle, it makes a compelling story. |
Science News
October 10, 2008
Tom Siegfried |
Book Review: The Black Hole War: My Battle With Stephen Hawking To Make The World Safe For Quantum Mechanics By Leonard Susskind The deepest issues are treated conversationally and accessibly, recounting efforts to persuade the physics community to appreciate the crisis that Stephen Hawking's work on black holes created. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2008
Saswato R. Das |
Quantum Cryptography Cracked? Swedes find vulnerability in supposedly secure quantum cryptography system. |
Technology Research News
May 21, 2003 |
Big qubits linked over distance Researchers working on quantum computing managed to entangle a pair of large quantum bits that were spaced nearly a millimeter apart. |
Scientific American
March 6, 2006
Graham P. Collins |
Ion Power In their quest to build a computer that would take advantage of quantum mechanics, physicists are pursuing a number of disparate technologies. Teams working with trapped atomic ions have demonstrated several landmark feats that the other approaches will be hard-pressed to match. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2011
Saswato R. Das |
A Crowd of Quantum Entanglements Phosphorus-in-silicon system could lead to quantum computers |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2008
Saswato R. Das |
Physicists Invent a Chip That Stores a Photon's Quantum State A step toward the "quantum repeaters" needed to make long-distance quantum-cryptography networks |
Technology Research News
March 12, 2003
Eric Smalley |
Quantum chips advance Researchers have entangled a pair of electronic qubits in an integrated circuit. The work is a milestone on the road to chip-based, mind-bogglingly fast quantum computers. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2007
Stephen Cass |
Thread-Bare Theories An interview with string-theory critic Lee Smolin about the challenges facing physics. |
Wired
September 2006
Adam Rogers |
Physics Wars String theory was supposed to reconcile the subatomic world with the vast reaches of spacetime. Now Lee Smolin wants to unravel it. |
Technology Research News
August 25, 2004
Eric Smalley |
Five Photons Linked Researchers have entangled five photons - a key step in quantum computing which would make it possible to check computations for errors and teleport quantum information within and between computers. |
Scientific American
September 2009
Michael Moyer |
Quantum Entanglement, Photosynthesis and Better Solar Cells Quantum details of plants' food-making ability could improve photovoltaic technology |
Smithsonian
June 2005
Richard Panek |
The Year of Albert Einstein His dizzying discoveries in 1905 would forever change our understanding of the universe. Amid all the centennial hoopla, the trick is to separate the man from the math. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2009
Saswato Das |
Ion Teleportation Scheme Could Scale Up Quantum Computers Scientists have teleported the quantum state of one trapped ion onto another a meter away |
Science News
May 19, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Cosmic Numerology Imbued with the same conviction of a natural order that drove Pythagoras and his followers to search for an underlying numerical harmony, Johannes Kepler maintained that the physical universe was laid out according to a mathematical design... |
Scientific American
November 2008
Michelle Press |
Reviews: The Superorganism Quantum Ten by Sheilla Jones captures the scientific and the human aspects of quantum physics... The Superorganism by Bert Holldobler presents a rich and diverse natural history facts that illustrate superorganismic traits in insect societies... etc. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2008
Mark Anderson |
Quantum Weirdness: Two Times Zero Doesn't Always Equal Zero Researchers think they can extract quantum information from two noisy channels that are individually useless |
Scientific American
June 2007 |
Reviews Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, And The Struggle For The Soul Of Science by David Lindley... Dirt: The Erosion Of Civilizations by David R. Montgomery... etc. |
Scientific American
January 2009
Charles Q. Choi |
Quantum Entanglement Benefits Exist After Links Are Broken A way for quantum benefits to survive after entanglement ends |
National Defense
May 2012
Eric Beidel |
Air Force Seeks Impossible-to-Intercept Communications The Air Force has enlisted a group of researchers to create quantum memories based on the interaction between light and matter that would result in a new form of encryption that some experts have called "perfect." |
Popular Mechanics
May 30, 2008
Richard Muller |
Physicist: Einstein Would Approve of Moving the Island on Lost How did Ben make the island "disappear" in last night's season finale? It's all relativity, argues a top professor who even uses Lost in his classes. |
Technology Research News
January 14, 2004
Eric Smalley |
Quantum dice debut Researchers have overcome a major obstacle to generating random numbers on quantum computers by limiting the possibilities in the otherwise unlimited randomness of a set of quantum particles. |
Technology Research News
April 21, 2004
Eric Smalley |
Optical Quantum Memory Designed Quantum computers that use photons rather than atoms or electrons are appealing because the equipment needed to handle them can be relatively simple. A scheme for trapping photons in fiber-optic loops and replacing the photons that the loops absorb could be the answer. |
Chemistry World
December 10, 2013
Erin Withans |
Dice world Brian Clegg discusses all aspects of the notion of 'chance': from everyday uses of statistics, such as weather forecasting and stock markets, to a final philosophical note on pre-determination and God in his book, Dice World. |
Salon.com
July 6, 2000
John Farrell |
Did Einstein cheat? Is the great physicist's most famous theory a crock? Members of the anti-relativity underground think so. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2008 |
Q&A With Post-Quantum Computing Cryptography Researcher Jintai Ding Quantum computers may be the perennial "computer of the future," but if (or when) they do become a reality, their sheer power could threaten the security of our information-technology infrastructure. |
National Defense
April 2011
Eric Beidel |
Pentagon Wants Off-the-Charts Computing Speeds The Defense Department awarded researchers based at the University of Pittsburgh a five-year, $7.5 million grant to build the foundation for a quantum supercomputer, a machine that can harness more power than all of the world's current computers combined. |
Technology Research News
January 28, 2004 |
Technique detects quantum state Researchers from the University of Rome in Italy have pushed theorized "perfect" quantum cryptography schemes forward by demonstrating a method for detecting quantum entanglement among subatomic particles. |
Science News
May 26, 2001 |
Cosmic Numerology Some history of scientists' attraction to special numbers and mathematic simplicity in physics and astronomy. |
Science News
March 31, 2001 |
TimeLine: March 28, 1931 Prince lion-cub speaks a word for himself... Einstein finds past events not knowable with certainty... Physicists now sure vibrations occur in heart of atom... |
