Causality is a concept deeply rooted in our understanding of the world and lies at the basis of the very notion of time. It plays an essential role in our […]
Tag: quantum mechanics
A quantum theory for thrones fans
Sydney University‘s delightful video in which academics predict who is going to win the Game of Thrones based on their disciplinary knowledge and understandings has had 62,500 Facebook likes, 900 […]
Dawn of the quark ages
by Michael Brooks from NewScientist 3024, 6 june 2015 Ask them to name their heart’s truest desire, and many a science nut might say the answer to life, the universe […]
Two-atom bunching
by Lindsay J. LeBlanc from Nature 520, 36–37 (02 April 2015) doi:10.1038/520036a The Hong–Ou–Mandel effect, whereby two identical quantum particles launched into the two input ports of a ‘beam-splitter’ always […]
Squeezed ions in two places at once
by Tracy Northup from Nature 521, 295–296 (21 May 2015) doi:10.1038/521295a Experiments on a trapped calcium ion have again exposed the strange nature of quantum phenomena, and could pave the […]