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New discovery brings analogue spintronic devices closer

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The observation of nonlinearity in electron spin-related processes in graphene makes it easier to transport, manipulate and detect spins, as well as spin-to-charge conversion. It also allows analogue operations such as amplitude modulation and spi...

Dec 18, 2020

Power boost thanks to gold lamellae

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Terahertz light holds enormous potential for tomorrow's technologies. It might succeed 5G by enabling extremely fast mobile communications connections and wireless networks. The bottleneck in the transition from gigahertz to terahertz frequen...

Dec 18, 2020

Sound waves spin droplets to concentrate, separate nanoparticles

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Mechanical engineers at Duke University have devised a method for spinning individual droplets of liquid to concentrate and separate nanoparticles for biomedical purposes. The technique is much more efficient than traditional centrifuge approaches...

Dec 18, 2020

Ultra-Thin Designer Materials Unlock Elusive Quantum Phenomena With Huge Impact for Quantum Computing

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New research, published in Nature, has measured highly sought-after Majorana quantum states. A team of theoretical and experimental physicists have designed a new ultra-thin material... The post Ultra-Thin Designer Materials Unlock Elusive Quantu...

Dec 17, 2020

Physicists in China challenge Google’s ‘quantum advantage’

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Lots of researchers are working to demonstrate quantum advantage, that is, to perform calculations on quantum computers that

Dec 17, 2020

Silicon qubits find the right position – Physics World

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New work on optimizing the location of phosphorous impurities could help silicon-based quantum processors scale up The post Silicon qubits find the right position appeared first on Physics World.

Dec 17, 2020

Researchers create entangled photons 100 times more efficiently than previously possible

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Super-fast quantum computers and communication devices could revolutionize countless aspects of our lives—but first, researchers need a fast, efficient source of the entangled pairs of photons such systems use to transmit and manipulate informatio...

Dec 17, 2020

Scientists create entangled photons 100 times more efficiently than previously possible

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Super-fast quantum computers and communication devices could revolutionize countless aspects of our lives -- but first, researchers need a fast, efficient source of the entangled pairs of photons such systems use to transmit and manipulate informa...

Dec 17, 2020

Scientists simulate a large-scale virus, M13

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Scientists have developed a procedure that combines various resolution levels in a computer simulation of a biological virus. Their procedure maps a large-scale model that includes features, such as a virus structure, nanoparticles, etc, to its co...

Dec 17, 2020

New nanobiomaterial from the silk of a mite with 'promising biomedical properties'

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An international team of researchers has developed a new nanomaterial from the silk produced by the Tetranychus lintearius mite. This nanomaterial has the ability to penetrate human cells without damaging them and, therefore, has "promising b...

Dec 17, 2020

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