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What did Einstein ever do for us?
News Max Planck started the quantum physics ball rolling in 1900, but Einstein gave it major impetus when he showed that 19th-century physicists' view of light as electromagnetic wave was incomplete. Quantum physics
[June 3, 2005, 12:00]
Thursday
Blog Most famously, he predicted the existence of anti-matter and described the nature of electron spin, two aspects of his work in quantum physics. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin in Madison have published details of how they plan to build a...
[August 9, 2002, 18:19]
No, no, no
Talkback Because quantum physics only allows these electrons to possess a limited number of quite widely spaced energy values. Actually its been known since the discovery of quantum mechanics at the start of the 20th century that electrons aren't discrete...
[June 2, 2007, 1:37]
Cryptography takes a quantum leap
News Magiq's device is designed to solve that theoretical problem by tapping into the weird and counterintuitive laws of quantum physics, which say that it is impossible to eavesdrop on a transmission without disturbing it.
[November 7, 2003, 9:00]
Physics Formulas and Tables - FREE Laws of Science and Weights and Measures chapters in the trial
Downloads Fundamental Atomic Physics Bohr Model, Rydberg formula Bohr Radius Bohr Magneton Photon Energy level Atomic orbital Electron Principal Quantum Number Nuclear Magneton Planck's ConstantMore e-Books from MobileReference - search keyword...
[June 20, 2007, 8:00]
Physics Formulas and Tables - FREE Laws of Science and Weights and Measures chapters in the trial
Downloads Fundamental Atomic Physics Bohr Model, Rydberg formula Bohr Radius Bohr Magneton Photon Energy level Atomic orbital Electron Principal Quantum Number Nuclear Magneton Planck's ConstantMore e-Books from MobileReference - search keyword...
[June 20, 2007, 8:00]
Researchers, literally, catch some rays
News Both MIT and Caltech are trying to build communication applications based on quantum physics, such as a quantum Internet that would have little quantum computers attached to each other with fibre optics sending and receiving information using...
[January 22, 2001, 8:33]
Physics Quick Study Guide - FREE Laws of Science and Weights and Measures in the trial version.
Downloads FREE two chapters in the trial version.Features Clear and concise explanations Difficult concepts are explained in simple terms Illustrated with graphs and diagrams Laws of Science Classical Mechanics Heat, Gas, and Thermodynamics Electromagnetism...
[May 31, 2007, 8:00]
Physics Quick Study Guide - FREE Laws of Science and Weights and Measures in the trial version.
Downloads FREE two chapters in the trial version.Features Clear and concise explanations Difficult concepts are explained in simple terms Illustrated with graphs and diagrams Laws of Science Classical Mechanics Heat, Gas, and Thermodynamics Electromagnetism...
[May 31, 2007, 8:00]
Physics Quick Study Guide - FREE Laws of Science and Weights and Measures in the trial version.
Downloads FREE two chapters in the trial version.Features Clear and concise explanations Difficult concepts are explained in simple terms Illustrated with graphs and diagrams Laws of Science Classical Mechanics Heat, Gas, and Thermodynamics Electromagnetism...
[May 31, 2007, 8:00]
'Noisy light' is new key to encryption
News Of all the quantum information technologies, like quantum computing, quantum cryptography appears to be the first to bat in terms of making it into real-world applications," said Ben Stein, a senior writer at the American Institute of Physics.
[November 15, 2002, 14:48]
The atoms went marching in one by one
News The new method, the institute said, is "likely to warm the hearts of researchers in fields ranging from nanotechnology to quantum computing to semiconductor processing. Kumar Wickramasinghe, an IBM fellow and manager of nanoscale and quantum...
[May 16, 2003, 9:19]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback Indian Physicist, who solved one of the mysteries of quantum mechanics, showing that in the quantum world some particles are indistinguishable. Nobel Laureate in Physics for work on scattering of light and Raman effect. Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose...
[September 22, 2005, 10:40]
Quantum dots lead to entanglement breakthrough
News Researchers at Cambridge University and Toshiba have announced a new quantum device that produces entangled photons. It has many possible uses in encryption, communication, quantum computing, medical imaging and chip production.
[January 11, 2006, 17:45]
Penetration Test
Downloads Penetration Testarcade hyper-nano-quantum engine ship simulator Penetration Test is a 2D arcade game, where you are operating a small flying ship (with hyper-nano-quantum engine) and fly in the tunnel deeply underthe ground, in false hope to reach...
[August 5, 2004, 8:00]
A Year Ago: Big leap for quantum computing
News This speeds us computations exponentially - a question that would require a classical computer to take 1 million steps, a quantum computer could dispose of in, say, a mere 1,000 steps. Perhaps quantum computers can help.
[May 25, 2001, 6:28]
Big leap for quantum computing
News This speeds us computations exponentially - a question that would require a classical computer to take 1 million steps, a quantum computer could dispose of in, say, a mere 1,000 steps. Perhaps quantum computers can help.
[May 25, 2000, 14:48]
Nay sayers always shout the loudest.
Talkback An interpretation which has since given us the transistor, a purely quantum mechanical device impossible to explain with conventional physics which nevertheless has had the most profound impact on our lives and the world as a whole.
[December 19, 2009, 16:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Bell was a mild-mannered, bearded Belfast man who did more than anyone else to penetrate into the very strangest parts of quantum physics - and he did so with humour and genius. So thanks indeed to Toshiba Research and Cambridge University for...
[January 13, 2006, 17:05]
RSA namesakes win Turing honours
News However, in a later session, RSA's Shamir drew a parallel between the Iraq situation and quantum cryptography, drawing a parallel with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal -- a cornerstone of quantum physics.
[April 15, 2003, 10:22]
