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Master equation to boost quantum technologies

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

As the size of modern technology shrinks down to the nanoscale, weird quantum effects—such as quantum tunneling, superposition, and entanglement—become prominent. This opens the door to a new era of quantum technologies, where quantum effects can ...

Aug 26, 2022

New encryption tool is designed to thwart quantum computers

Tech Xplore   -   Scientific News Websites

An encryption tool co-created by a University of Cincinnati math professor will soon safeguard the telecommunications, online retail and banking and other digital systems we use every day.

Aug 26, 2022

Glass nanoparticles show unexpected coupling when levitated with laser light

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have found a new mechanism that fundamentally alters the interaction between optically levitated nanoparticles. Their experiment demonstrates previously unattainable levels of control over the coupling in arrays of particles, thereby c...

Aug 26, 2022

Using molecular simulations to study self-assembling 'associating polymers'

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

When plastic materials are processed or recycled, their fundamental properties can degrade due to damage caused by deformation. Recycling processes tend to break molecular bonds inside the materials, making them weaker and less durable. One way th...

Aug 26, 2022

Glass nanoparticles show unexpected coupling when levitated with laser light

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have found a new mechanism that fundamentally alters the interaction between optically levitated nanoparticles. Their experiment demonstrates previously unattainable levels of control over the coupling in arrays of particles, thereby c...

Aug 26, 2022

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Georgia State researchers discover novel way to treat IBD with lipid nanoparticles

Nanotechnology Now   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Oral delivery of lipid nanoparticles that target the colon with nucleic acids is a novel therapeutic strategy for treating ulcerative colitis, according to a new study by researchers in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State Univer...

Aug 26, 2022

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Bound by light: Glass nanoparticles show unexpected coupling when levitated with laser light

Nanotechnology Now   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A team of researchers at the University of Vienna, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Duisburg-Essen have found a new mechanism that fundamentally alters the interaction between optically levitated nanoparticles. Their experime...

Aug 26, 2022

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Master equation to boost quantum technologies: FQXi-funded analysis will help physicists exert exquisitely precise real-time feedback control over quantum systems

Nanotechnology Now   -   Nanotechnology Websites

As the size of modern technology shrinks down to the nanoscale, weird quantum effects—such as quantum tunneling, superposition, and entanglement—become prominent. This opens the door to a new era of quantum technologies, where quantum effects can ...

Aug 26, 2022

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: An alternative to MINFLUX that enables nanometre resolution in a confocal microscope

Nanotechnology Now   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Fluorescence microscopy is a major workhorse in life sciences, biophysics, and physical chemistry, as it allows visualization with great specificity and sensitivity. In particular, the detection of single fluorescent molecules has been used to pro...

Aug 26, 2022

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Understanding outsize role of nanopores: New research reveals differences in pH, and more, about these previously mysterious environments

Nanotechnology Now   -   Nanotechnology Websites

There is an entire aqueous universe hidden within the tiny pores of many natural and engineered materials. Research from the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis has shown that when such materials are submerged in l...

Aug 26, 2022

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