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Aug 15, 2023

Revolutionary hardware unveils new quantum computing model

Posted by in categories: computing, information science, particle physics, quantum physics

A potentially game-changing theoretical approach to quantum computing hardware avoids much of the problematic complexity found in current quantum computers. The strategy implements an algorithm in natural quantum interactions to process a variety of real-world problems faster than classical computers or conventional gate-based quantum computers can.

“Our finding eliminates many challenging requirements for quantum hardware,” said Nikolai Sinitsyn, a at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is co-author of a paper on the approach in the journal Physical Review A. “Natural systems, such as the electronic spins of defects in diamond, have precisely the type of interactions needed for our process.”

Sinitsyn said the team hopes to collaborate with experimental physicists also at Los Alamos to demonstrate their approach using ultracold atoms. Modern technologies in are sufficiently advanced to demonstrate such computations with about 40 to 60 qubits, he said, which is enough to solve many problems not currently accessible by classical, or binary, computation. A is the basic unit of quantum information, analogous to a bit in familiar classical computing.

Aug 15, 2023

Gold buckyballs, oft-used nanoparticle ‘seeds’ are one and the same

Posted by in categories: nanotechnology, particle physics

Rice University chemists have discovered that tiny gold “seed” particles, a key ingredient in one of the most common nanoparticle recipes, are one and the same as gold buckyballs, 32-atom spherical molecules that are cousins of the carbon buckyballs discovered at Rice in 1985.

Carbon buckyballs are hollow 60-atom molecules that were co-discovered and named by the late Rice chemist Richard Smalley. He dubbed them “buckminsterfullerenes” because their atomic structure reminded him of architect Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes, and the “fullerene” family has grown to include dozens of hollow molecules.

In 2019, Rice chemists Matthew Jones and Liang Qiao discovered that golden fullerenes are the gold “seed” particles chemists have long used to make gold nanoparticles. The find came just a few months after the first reported synthesis of gold buckyballs, and it revealed chemists had unknowingly been using the golden molecules for decades.

Aug 15, 2023

Strange Landscape of Particles Inside a Proton Mapped Like Never Before

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

The protons and neutrons making up atomic nuclei are made up of a trio of even smaller fundamental particles known as quarks.

A new study has now mapped out in unprecedented detail the distribution of the different kinds of quark inside a proton, expanding on our understanding of this all-important part of an atom.

Although the quantum landscape within protons is a seething mess of quarks and their opposing antiquarks popping in and out of existence, there is a general dominance of two ‘flavors’ over the others; two up-flavor quarks and a single down-flavor quark.

Aug 15, 2023

Can we understand the universe? | Sheldrake & Hossenfelder go head to head on dark matter IN FULL

Posted by in categories: cosmology, neuroscience, particle physics, quantum physics

Sabine Hossenfelder, Rupert Sheldrake and Bjorn Ekeberg go head to head on consciousness, panpsychism, physics and dard matter.

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Aug 14, 2023

Mystery of Entropy FINALLY Solved After 50 Years! (STEPHEN WOLFRAM)

Posted by in categories: computing, particle physics, space

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Aug 14, 2023

“Quantum Avalanche” — A Phenomenon That May Revolutionize Microelectronics and Supercomputing

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics, supercomputing

New Study Solves Mystery on Insulator-to-Metal Transition

A study explored insulator-to-metal transitions, uncovering discrepancies in the traditional Landau-Zener formula and offering new insights into resistive switching. By using computer simulations, the research highlights the quantum mechanics involved and suggests that electronic and thermal switching can arise simultaneously, with potential applications in microelectronics and neuromorphic computing.

Looking only at their subatomic particles, most materials can be placed into one of two categories.

Aug 13, 2023

Physicists confirm the 67-year-old prediction of massless, neutral composite particle

Posted by in category: particle physics

Uisng a nonstandard experimental technique, physicists confirm 67-year-old prediction of massless, neutral composite particle called demon.

Aug 13, 2023

‘Quantum superchemistry’ observed for the 1st time ever

Posted by in categories: chemistry, particle physics, quantum physics

A new type of chemistry performed at very cold temperatures on very small particles enables quick, precise reactions.

Aug 12, 2023

Tiny particle’s ‘wobble’ could be start of a major discovery — scientists

Posted by in category: particle physics

The “wobble” of a tiny particle known as a muon is once again challenging our understanding of physics and could be the start of a major discovery, scientists have said.

For the third time, findings from experiments have shown this particle does not behave as predicted by the Standard Model – the rulebook physicists use to describe and understand how the universe works at the subatomic level.

Scientists said their latest results, which have been submitted to the journal Physical Review Letters, reinforce measurements of the muon’s wobble in previous experiments and are even more precise.

Aug 12, 2023

Dreams of new physics fade with latest muon magnetism result

Posted by in category: particle physics

Precision test of particle’s magnetism confirms earlier shocking findings — but theory might not need a rethink after all.