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  • World’s First Quantum Microsatellite Enables Secure Communication Across Continents

    03/20/2025 1:19:53 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 8 replies
    Daily Galaxy ^ | March 20, 2025 | Lydia Amazouz
    In a major leap toward the development of a global quantum internet, researchers have successfully demonstrated real-time quantum key distribution (QKD) between a microsatellite and multiple mobile ground stations. The breakthrough, achieved with Jinan-1, the world’s first quantum microsatellite, was led by a research team from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in collaboration with the Jinan Institute of Quantum Technology, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Stellenbosch University in South Africa. The findings were recently published in Nature. By enabling highly secure, unbreakable encryption, quantum communication is seen as the future...
  • Quantum Biopharma brings alcohol hangover recovery product to market

    03/05/2025 8:45:01 PM PST · by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin · 14 replies
    Cinancial News ^ | Quantum Biopharma
    Youtube video of a Quantum Biopharma official explaining a new product that has passed FDA tests for sllowing recovery from hangovers in 15-30 minutes. Says product available online already.
  • Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip carves new path for quantum computing

    02/19/2025 11:26:18 AM PST · by ProtectOurFreedom · 12 replies
    Microsoft ^ | February 19, 2025 | Catherine Bolgar
    Microsoft introduced Majorana 1, the world’s first quantum chip powered by a new Topological Core architecture that it expects will realize quantum computers capable of solving meaningful, industrial-scale problems in years, not decades. It leverages the world’s first topoconductor, a breakthrough type of material which can observe and control Majorana particles to produce more reliable and scalable qubits, which are the building blocks for quantum computers. ...topoconductors and the new type of chip they enable offer a path to developing quantum systems that can scale to a million qubits and are capable of tackling the most complex industrial and societal...
  • How Quantum Bubbles Could Trigger the End of Everything

    02/08/2025 9:21:29 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 22 replies
    Study Finds ^ | February 4, 2025 | StudyFinds Staff
    · Scientists used a 5,564-qubit quantum computer to simulate and observe "false vacuum decay" — a process that could determine our Universe's ultimate fate by transitioning it to a more stable state· The research team created and tracked quantum bubbles containing up to 306 qubits, revealing how smaller bubbles bounce around among larger ones in a complex quantum dance that persisted for over 1,000 qubit time units· This breakthrough demonstrates how table-top quantum experiments can help us understand fundamental cosmic processes without requiring massive facilities like the Large Hadron ColliderNearly 50 years ago, physicist Sidney Coleman proposed an intriguing idea:...
  • Time Travel Paradoxes Solved? New Study Shows How Quantum Mechanics Prevents Changing the Past

    01/14/2025 11:01:23 AM PST · by Red Badger · 90 replies
    The Debrief ^ | January 14, 2025 | Tim McMillan
    Time travel has long captured the human imagination, from its appearances in science fiction fantasies to its profound implications in modern theoretical physics. Now, a recent study by Dr. Lorenzo Gavassino, a theoretical and mathematical physicist at Vanderbilt University, delves into the enigmatic nature of time travel involving time loops to examine their profound implications for quantum mechanics, entropy, and human experience. Dr. Gavassino’s findings, published in Classical and Quantum Gravity, present a strikingly different picture of time travel. They reveal that traveling through such time loops would prevent many classical time travel paradoxes, including the infamous “grandfather paradox.” “It...
  • Scientists Plan to Link the Human Brain with a Quantum Computer

    01/03/2025 9:51:22 AM PST · by BenLurkin · 31 replies
    Anomalien ^ | Jan 2, 2025
    Consciousness defines what it means to be human, yet its mechanisms remain elusive. Scientists know that anesthetics can “turn off” consciousness, but how they achieve this is still unclear. Two dominant theories attempt to explain consciousness: the Integrated Information Theory (IIT), which posits that consciousness arises from the integration of information, and the Global Workspace Theory (GWT), which suggests it emerges from the exchange of information across different parts of the brain. In 1989, British mathematician and Nobel laureate Roger Penrose proposed an unconventional hypothesis linking consciousness to quantum entanglement. He argued that the human mind could solve problems that...
  • Physicists Baffled by Odd Quasiparticle That Seems to Have No Mass—Until It Changes Direction

    12/17/2024 10:53:12 AM PST · by Red Badger · 26 replies
    The Debrief ^ | December 16, 2001 | Micah Hanks
    Scientists report the first known observation of a variety of quasiparticle that exhibits a very peculiar behavior: it appears to have mass, but only while moving in one direction. Scientists at Pennsylvania State University recently succeeded in detecting the unusual quasiparticle while conducting studies involving a semi-metallic crystalline material. Known as a semi-Dirac fermion, this unique formation of particles was first theorized more than a decade ago, but until now had never been directly observed. The discovery potentially paves the way toward future advances in a range of emerging technologies that include power storage and novel forms of sensor technologies....
  • Google’s new quantum chip is 1.05 million septillion times faster than today’s fastest supercomputers

    12/12/2024 12:00:19 PM PST · by ShadowAce · 55 replies
    The Brighter Side of News ^ | 12 December 2024 | Joseph Shavit
    The field of quantum computing has taken a giant leap forward with the development of the Willow chip. Over a decade in the making, this achievement stems from a vision to harness the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics for scientific discovery, problem-solving, and transformative applications. The Willow chip represents a major step toward realizing large-scale, commercially useful quantum computers.A critical hurdle in quantum computing has been error correction. Qubits, the foundational units of quantum computation, are notoriously fragile and prone to interacting with their environment, leading to errors. These errors increase with the number of qubits, often rendering the system...
  • Revolutionary Quantum Compass Could Soon Make GPS-Free Navigation a Reality

    08/19/2024 5:17:06 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 49 replies
    Scitech Daily ^ | August 18, 2024 | Sandia National Laboratories
    Sandia National Laboratories’ four-channel, silicon photonic single-sideband modulator chip, measuring 8 millimeters on each side and marked with a green Sandia thunderbird logo, sits inside packaging that incorporates optical fibers, wire bonds, and ceramic pins. Credit: Craig Fritz, Sandia National Laboratories ==================================================================== A milestone in quantum sensing is drawing closer, promising exquisitely accurate, GPS-free navigation. Peel apart a smartphone, fitness tracker or virtual reality headset, and inside you’ll find a tiny motion sensor tracking its position and movement. Bigger, more expensive versions of the same technology, about the size of a grapefruit and a thousand times more accurate, help navigate...
  • CERN Experiment Reveals “SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE” Persists Between Top Quarks

    06/25/2024 11:52:15 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 20 replies
    The Debrief ^ | June 25, 2024 | Micah Hanks
    Quantum entanglement in top quarks has been demonstrated, according to physicists at CERN who say the discovery offers new insights into the behavior of fundamental particles and their interactions at distances that cannot be attained by light-speed communication. The research, led by University of Rochester professor Regina Demina, extends the phenomenon known as “spooky action at a distance” to the heaviest particles recognized by physicists and offers important new insights into high-energy quantum mechanics. Initially discovered almost three decades ago, top quarks are the most massive elementary particles that have been observed. The mass of these unique particles originates from...
  • Incredible High-Tech Window Coating Allows Visible light Through But Blocks Heat

    04/03/2024 11:14:16 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 60 replies
    The Debrief ^ | APRIL 3, 2024 | Christopher Plain
    Scientists say they have created an experimental new high-tech window coating that works similarly to polarized lenses on sunglasses by allowing all of the visible light through while also reflecting unwanted heat. If added to existing buildings and car windows, the new coating could reduce internal temperatures in hotter climates without sacrificing any of the visible light while also reducing energy usage for indoor air conditioning by as much as 30%. The new coating was developed by researchers from Notre Dame University who were looking for a cheap yet viable way to reduce the use of air conditioning in cars...
  • Superconduction Breakthrough: Scientists Discover New State of Quantum Matter

    08/29/2023 1:06:16 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 29 replies
    Scitech Daily ^ | AUGUST 29, 2023 | By CORNELL UNIVERSITY
    Scientists at Cornell discovered a new quantum matter state in Uranium Ditelluride, which could revolutionize quantum computing and spintronics by forming the materials platform for ultra-stable quantum computers and revealing new avenues for identifying such states in various materials. Researchers from Cornell University have identified a new state of matter in candidate topological superconductors, a discovery that may have far-reaching implications for both condensed matter physics and the fields of quantum computing and spintronics. Researchers at the Macroscopic Quantum Matter Group at Cornell have discovered and visualized a crystalline yet superconducting state in a new and unusual superconductor, Uranium Ditelluride...
  • The Fine-Structure Constant: Evidence of Design in Nature

    07/26/2023 9:02:24 PM PDT · by lasereye · 20 replies
    ICR ^ | JULY 20, 2023 | JONATHAN K. CORRADO, PH.D., P. E.
    The job of physicists is to worry about numbers, but one number has perplexed physicists for more than a century. That number is 0.00729735256—approximately 1/137. This is the fine-structure constant. It appears everywhere in the equations of quantum physics. The fine-structure constant, designated by the Greek letter alpha (α), is one of the many constants of nature that power our laws of physics, like the speed of light, the gravitational constant, or Planck’s constant. These constants can have different values depending upon which system of units are used to express them. For instance, the speed of light in vacuum is...
  • Iran showcases quantum CPU for its military

    07/18/2023 7:38:10 PM PDT · by algore · 15 replies
    Iran's Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, Coordinating Deputy of the Islamic Republic's Army (and former Commander of the Navy), alongside Imam Khomeini University of Marine Sciences and Technologies (RA), has unveiled what it is calling the "first product of the quantum processing algorithm. Essentially, a newly-designed quantum computing board that is apparently already being used by the Iranian Military to "counter navigation deception in detecting surface vessels using the quantum algorithms." And with the hardware showcased as part of a photo-op, it didn't take long for someone to notice that the hardware being shown is an off-the-shelf ARM-based FPGA SoC development...
  • Quantum Experiment Shows How Einstein Was Wrong About One Thing

    05/15/2023 11:26:48 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 50 replies
    Science Alert ^ | 16 May 2023 | ByDAVID NIELD
    Quantum machine - Inside the 30-meter tube. (ETH Zurich/Daniel Winkler) Albert Einstein wasn't entirely convinced about quantum mechanics, suggesting our understanding of it was incomplete. In particular, Einstein took issue with entanglement, the notion that a particle could be affected by another particle that wasn't close by. Experiments since have shown that quantum entanglement is indeed possible and that two entangled particles can be connected over a distance. Now a new experiment further confirms it, and in a way we haven't seen before. In the new experiment, scientists used a 30-meter-long tube cooled to close to absolute zero to run...
  • Researchers develop new germanium-tin transistor as alternative to silicon

    04/27/2023 12:30:22 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 29 replies
    Tech Explore ^ | 27 April 2023 | by Forschungszentrum Juelich
    The germanium-tin processor was fabricated at the Helmholtz Nano Facility, the Helmholtz Association's central technology platform for the manufacturing of nanostructures and circuits. Credit: Forschungszentrum Juelich Scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich have fabricated a new type of transistor from a germanium–tin alloy that has several advantages over conventional switching elements. Charge carriers can move faster in the material than in silicon or germanium, which enables lower voltages in operation. The transistor thus appears to be a promising candidate for future low-power, high-performance chips, and possibly also for the development of future of quantum computers. Over the past 70 years, the number...
  • Breaking RSA with a Quantum Computer

    01/04/2023 10:35:59 AM PST · by Twotone · 23 replies
    Schneier on Security ^ | January 3, 2023 | Bruce Schneier
    A group of Chinese researchers have just published a paper claiming that they can—although they have not yet done so—break 2048-bit RSA. This is something to take seriously. It might not be correct, but it’s not obviously wrong. We have long known from Shor’s algorithm that factoring with a quantum computer is easy. But it takes a big quantum computer, on the orders of millions of qbits, to factor anything resembling the key sizes we use today. What the researchers have done is combine classical lattice reduction factoring techniques with a quantum approximate optimization algorithm. This means that they only...
  • Don't Let Yourself Get Tangled Up by These 4 Quantum Mechanics Misconceptions

    11/10/2022 6:54:36 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 33 replies
    sciencealert.com ^ | ALESSANDRO FEDRIZZI & MEHUL MALIK,
    1. A cat can be dead and alive Obviously, a cat is nothing like an individual photon in a controlled lab environment, it is much bigger and more complex. Any coherence that the trillions upon trillions of atoms that make up the cat might have with each other is extremely short-lived. This does not mean that quantum coherence is impossible in biological systems, just that it generally won't apply to big creatures such as cats or a human. 2. Simple analogies can explain entanglement Quantum particles are just mysteriously correlated in ways we can't describe with everyday logic or language...
  • Quantum Birth of the Universe

    08/28/2022 5:52:37 PM PDT · by LibWhacker · 42 replies
    Daily Galaxy ^ | 8/27/2022 | Avi Shporer
    “In some pockets of space, far beyond the limits of our observations,” wrote cosmologist Dan Hooper at the University of Chicago in an email to The Daily Galaxy, referring to the theory of eternal inflation and the inflationary multiverse: “the laws of physics could be very different from those we find in our local universe. Different forms of matter could exist, which experience different kinds of forces. In this sense, what we call ‘the laws of physics’, instead of being a universal fact of nature, could be an environmental fact, which varies from place to place, or from time to...
  • Strange new phase of matter created in quantum computer acts like it has two time dimensions [sort of]

    07/21/2022 9:30:48 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 21 replies
    Phys.org ^ | JULY 20, 2022 | Simons Foundation
    By shining a laser pulse sequence inspired by the Fibonacci numbers at atoms inside a quantum computer, physicists have created a remarkable, never-before-seen phase of matter. The phase has the benefits of two time dimensions despite there still being only one singular flow of time... This mind-bending property offers a sought-after benefit: Information stored in the phase is far more protected against errors than with alternative setups currently used in quantum computers. As a result, the information can exist without getting garbled for much longer, an important milestone for making quantum computing viable, says study lead author Philipp Dumitrescu. The...