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Tag: Quantum physics
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Science & Tech
3 tech solutions to societal needs will get help moving to market
Projects targeting heart health, data demands, quantum computing win Grid Accelerator awards
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Hunting a basic building block of universe
Researchers find way to confirm existence of axions, which make up dark matter
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Why new qubit may give ultrafast quantum computing a boost
Microsoft discovery appears to be more stable, robust option
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Exploring superconducting electrons in twisted graphene
Could up the game of lossless power transmission, levitating trains, quantum computing, even energy-efficient detectors for space exploration
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Researchers make leap in quantum computing
Trapping molecules for use in systems may help make ultra-high-speed experimental technology even faster
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Kempner AI cluster named one of world’s fastest ‘green’ supercomputers
Computational power can be used to train and run artificial neural networks, creates key advances in understanding basis of intelligence in natural and artificial systems
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Arts & Culture
The problem with knowing everything
‘Rigor of Angels’ author explains how a Borges character with perfect memory illuminates work of Heisenberg, Kant
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A smoother way to study ‘twistronics’
Difficulty controlling 2D materials has slowed discovery in hot field of physics
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Campus & Community
Hey Quantum, you’re home
David E. and Stacey L. Goel Quantum Science and Engineering Building opens
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Campus & Community
Yes, it’s exciting. Just don’t look at the sun.
Lab, telescope specialist details Harvard eclipse-viewing party, offers safety tips
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Harvard physicists create a new phase of matter
First demonstration of non-Abelian anyons in a quantum processor
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High-temperature superconductors with a twist
Fabrication method could facilitate materials discovery
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Campus & Community
New faculty: Norman Yao
Physics Professor Norman Yao describes his journey in quantum physics.
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Arts & Culture
Like plunging over a waterfall
Natalie Hodges ’19 talks about her senior thesis-turned-book, “Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time.”
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Unlocking potential of quantum technologies
Chemical biology professor works to crack secrets of new states of matter.
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Campus & Community
The quantum storyteller
Sukin “Hannah” Sim develops algorithms and writes the computational stories that dictate how quantum computers tackle problems.
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Quantum networks advance with entanglement of photons, solid-state qubits
A team of Harvard physicists led by Mikhail D. Lukin has achieved the first-ever quantum entanglement of photons and solid-state materials. The work marks a key advance toward practical quantum networks, as…
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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.
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Quantum gas microscope offers glimpse of quirky ultracold atoms
Harvard physicists have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, behaving in…
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Physics for the musical masses
Harvard physicist Lisa Randall is taking Paris’ opera-going public to the fifth dimension this month, working with a composer and artist to present an opera that incorporates Randall’s theories about…
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Researchers see exotic force for first time
For the first time, researchers have measured a long-theorized force that operates at distances so tiny they’re measured in billionths of a meter, which may have important applications in nanotechnology…
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Campus & Community
Philosopher serious about science
Whether teasing out inconsistencies in quantum theory or figuring out what it means for one event to cause another, Ned Hall is asking questions about the forces that rule the…
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Lukin illuminates quantum science
Mikhail Lukin thinks that devices based on quantum science are at the same stage as radios were about 100 years ago. To catch up, the recently tenured professor of physics…
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Have light, will not travel
Harvard researchers fired a short signal pulse of red laser light into a sealed glass cylinder containing a hot gas of rubidium atoms illuminated by a strong control beam. While…