Tag: Quantum mechanics

  • Science & Tech

    Mapping the quantum frontier, one layer at a time

    Professor Kang-Kuen Ni and her team have collected real experimental data from an unexplored quantum frontier, providing strong evidence of what the theoretical model got right (and wrong) and a roadmap for further exploration into the shadowy next layers of quantum space.

    4–6 minutes
    Mapping the quantum realm.
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    Mystery of the missing molecules

    When scientists moved from manipulating atoms to messing with molecules, molecules started to disappear from view. Professor Kang-Kuen Ni has figured out why.

    4–6 minutes
    Professor Kang-Kuen Ni
  • Science & Tech

    In a photo of a black hole, a possible key to mysteries

    So little is known about black holes and the image hints at a path to a higher-resolution image and more and better data.

    5–7 minutes
    Rings around a black hole.
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    Catching lightning in a bottle

    Harvard researchers have performed the coldest reaction in the known universe by capturing a chemical reaction in its most critical and elusive act.

    3–5 minutes
    Scientist with special equipment.
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    Riding the quantum computing ‘wave’

    Google engineers claimed to have created a quantum computer that exhibited “quantum supremacy.” The Gazette spoke with Harvard Quantum Initiative Co-Director Mikhail Lukin about the achievement, about similar work at Harvard.

    9–14 minutes
    Artist's drawing for Google Quantum
  • Campus & Community

    Nobel physics laureate Roy Glauber dies at 93

    Roy Glauber, the pioneering theoretical physicist who received the 2005 Nobel Prize in physics, died on Dec. 26. He was 93.

    4–6 minutes
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    Researchers create quantum calculator

    Researchers have developed a special type of quantum computer, known as a quantum simulator, that is programmed by capturing super-cooled rubidium atoms with lasers and arranging them in a specific order, then allowing quantum mechanics to do the necessary calculations.

    5–7 minutes
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    Elegant entanglement

    Harvard scientists have taken a critical step toward building a quantum computer — a device that could someday harness subatomic particles such as electrons to perform calculations far faster than the most powerful supercomputers.

    3–5 minutes
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    The ‘quantum magnet’

    Harvard physicists have expanded the possibilities for quantum engineering of novel materials such as high-temperature superconductors by coaxing ultracold atoms trapped in an optical lattice — a light crystal — to self-organize into a magnet, according to an article in the journal Nature.

    3–4 minutes
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    Quantum connections

    Harvard physicists demonstrate the first quantum entanglement of photons and solid-state materials, in work that marks a key advance toward practical quantum networks that can communicate over long distances.

    2–3 minutes
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    Insights on quantum mechanics

    Physicists create an artificial material to gain up-close insights into quantum materials and how they interact.

    2–3 minutes