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Microscope image of a quantum LED device showing bright quantum emitter generating a stream of single photons.

Ultra-thin quantum LEDs could accelerate development of quantum networks

07 Oct 2016

Researchers have developed all-electrical ultra-thin quantum LEDs, which have potential as on-chip photon sources in quantum information applications...

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Regime of a single 1D wire subband filled

A tight squeeze for electrons – quantum effects observed in ‘one-dimensional’ wires

15 Sep 2016

Researchers have observed quantum effects in electrons by squeezing them into one-dimensional ‘quantum wires’ and observing the interactions between...

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Excitation of a spin liquid on a honeycomb lattice with neutrons.

New state of matter detected in a two-dimensional material

04 Apr 2016

Researchers have observed the ‘fingerprint’ of a mysterious new quantum state of matter in a two-dimensional material, in which electrons break apart...

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Vortex rings as the result of vortex multiplication in a quantum fluid; some electrons are free, and some got trapped by one or more vortices

Hunt for an unidentified electron object

25 Mar 2014

New research sheds light on the nature of ‘unidentified electron objects’ - a mysterious class of objects that exists in superfluid helium at low...

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Quantum waves at the heart of organic solar cells

12 Dec 2013

Researchers have been able to tune ‘coherence’ in organic nanostructures due to the surprise discovery of wavelike electrons in organic materials...

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Supernova

Quantum ‘sealed envelope’ system enables “perfectly secure” information storage

04 Nov 2013

Breakthrough guarantees “unconditional” security of information by harnessing quantum theory and relativity, and has been successfully demonstrated...

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The laser set-up in the lab that led to the research results

Electron ‘spin’ key to solar cell breakthrough

07 Aug 2013

Latest research paves way for inexpensive, high performance cells

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Representation of a pyrrole molecule

Movement of pyrrole molecules defy ‘classical’ physics

26 Apr 2013

Quantum laws loom ever larger in physical world as new research finds quantum phenomena in effect on a molecular level

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Laser-like photons signal major step towards quantum ‘Internet’

19 Mar 2013

The realisation of quantum networks is one of the major challenges of modern physics. Now, new research shows how high-quality photons can be...

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Particle or wave...

Mathematical breakthrough sets out rules for more effective teleportation

17 Jan 2013

New protocol advances solutions for more efficient teleportation - the transport of quantum information at the speed of light.

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Structure of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex

Unlocking nature’s quantum engineering for efficient solar energy

06 Jan 2013

Quantum scale photosynthesis in biological systems which inhabit extreme environments could hold key to new designs for solar energy and nanoscale...

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Polariton quantum rivers flow from four hills creating quantum tornadoes in the valley

The dance of quantum tornadoes

04 Dec 2012

A quantum fluid trapped on top of a semiconductor chip can be used to measure movements to astonishing precision.

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