News on physics & quantuum physics

 

• Casimir effect goes negative - nanotechweb.org - Jan 12, 2009

 

• Physics World reveals its top 10 breakthroughs for 2011 - Physicsworld.com (the member magazine of the Institute of Physics ) - Dec 16, 2011

 

• Physicists propose test for loop quantum gravity - phys.org - Jan 03, 2012

 

• Computer simulations reveal universal increase in electrical conductivity - phys.org - Aug 11, 2013

 

• Death by Higgs rids cosmos of space brain threat - newscientist - 04 September 2013

 

• Nobel Prize for the Higgs mechanism - Niels Bohr Institute - 09 October 2013

 

• A Grand Unified Theory of Exotic Superconductivity? - Brookheaven National Laboratory - October 17, 2013

 

• Deterministically Encoding Quantum Information Using 100-Photon Schrödinger Cat States - sciencemag - 1 November 2013

 

• Inelastic X-ray scattering in YBa2Cu3O6.6 reveals giant phonon anomalies and elastic central peak due to charge-density-wave formation - nature - 24 November 2013

 

• Decay used to construct quantum information - Niels Bohr Institute
   - 24 November 2013

 

• Quantum state world record smashed - Oxford University - 15 Nov 13

 

• New Effect Couples Electricity and Magnetism in Materials - Tesnische Universität Wein - 2013-11-27

 

• ‘Spooky action’ builds a wormhole between ‘entangled’ particles - University of Washington - December 3, 2013

 

• Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram - Nature - 10 December 2013

 

• Catching the big wave: 'Universal ripple' could hold the secret to high-temperature superconductivity - science.ubc - December 19, 2013

 

• A new wrinkle in the control of waves (Flexible materials could provide ways to manipulate sound and light) - MIT news - January 24, 2014.

 

• Acoustic Cloaking Device Hides Objects from Sound - Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University (News Release) - March 11, 2014

 

• Scientists open a new window into quantum physics with superconductivity in LEDs - University of Toronto - March 18, 2014

 

• Acoustic Cloaking Device Hides Objects from Sound - Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University (News Release) - March 11, 2014

 

• Temporal violation of the second law of thermodynamics in Nature Nanotechnology - Institute of Photonic Sciences (News) - 2014/03/31

 

• Researchers propose a new way to detect the elusive graviton - Arizona State University (News) - March 03, 2014

 

• Current-driven ion-acoustic and potential-relaxation instabilities excited in plasma plume during electron beam welding - scitation.aip - 08 abril 2014

 

• Argon–oxygen dc magnetron discharge plasma probed with ion acoustic waves - scitation.aip - 10 abril 2014

 

• Liquid spacetime: A very slippery superfluid, that's what spacetime could be like - phys.org - Apr 23, 2014

 

• Study finds semiclassical gravity counterintuitive, but on the horizon of testability - phys.org - May 08, 2013

 

• Gravitational wave discovery faces scrutiny: Cosmologist casts doubts on BICEP2's analysis of cosmic microwaves, but the team stands by its conclusions - Nature News - 16 May 2014

 

• A photon–photon collider in a vacuum hohlraum - Nature News - 18 May 2014