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Scientists unveil image of quantum entanglement for the first time ever

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For the first time ever, physicists have captured an image of quantum entanglement. In a paper published in the journal of Scientific Advances, scientists from the University of Glasglow shared the first known image of a Bell entanglement. The photo...

IBM announces Quantum Computer Breakthroughs

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IBM announced today two critical breakthroughs to realize a practical quantum computer. For the first time, IBM scientists demonstrated the ability to detect and measure both kinds of quantum errors...

Our Universe Might Be a Hologram Say Scientists

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Are we living in a two dimensional world and just perceive the third dimension? An international group of scientists has worked on a theoretical mathematical model that proofs that the holographic...

New Research Discovers Secret of Frustrated Magnets

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An experiment conducted by Princeton researchers has revealed an unlikely behavior in a class of materials called frustrated magnets, addressing a long-debated question about the nature of these...

‘Star Trek’ style teleportation might be possible

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The advancement in technology in today’s world is surely quite overwhelming and with every new step towards more advancement we get a little surprised each time. Did you ever think that a seemingly ‘...

There’s More Than Just Qubits In Computing With Quantum Cats

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Bestselling science writer John Gribbin’s new book Computing with Quantum Cats (Prometheus Books) holds more than a few surprises for readers interested in the history of computers–from the massive...

Alt-week 8.4.12: buckyballs, bosons and bodily fluids

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Alt-week peels back the covers on some of the more curious sci-tech stories from the last seven days.

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Remember when we told you last week that we live in a strange world? Well, we had no idea what we were talking about. Seriously, things are about to get a whole lot weirder. High school is certainly a head-scratcher, no matter how old you are, but the mathematics of social hierarchies can't hold a candle to the mysteries of the buckyball. And, if the strange behavior of the familiar carbon molecule isn't enough for you, we've got an entirely new molecule to contend with, while the once-elusive Higgs Boson is getting us closer to unlocking the secrets of the universe. It's all pretty heady stuff, which is why we're also gonna take a quick detour to the world of human waste. This is alt-week.

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Alt-week 8.4.12: buckyballs, bosons and bodily fluids originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 04 Aug 2012 13:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Flawed diamonds are perfect ingredients for quantum computing, just add time travel

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Flawed diamonds are perfect ingredients for quantum computing, just add time travel
Ready to suspend your brain cells in a superposition of disbelief? Good, because the latest news published in Nature is that diamonds are a quantum computer's best friend -- particularly if they're flawed. An international team of scientists sought out sub-atomic impurities in a 1mm-thick fragment of over-priced carbon and used these as qubits to perform successful calculations. A "rogue" nitrogen nucleus provided one qubit, while a free electron became a second. Unlike previous attempts at solid-state quantum computing, this new effort used an extra technique to protect the system from decoherence errors: microwave pulses were fired at the electron qubit to "time-reverse" inconsistencies in its spinning motion. Don't fully get it? Us neither. In any case, it probably won't stop jewellers tut-tutting to themselves.

Flawed diamonds are perfect ingredients for quantum computing, just add time travel originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 07 Apr 2012 06:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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