Quantum

Researchers at Imperial College London have surprised everyone with research suggesting that binding light to a single electron could result in a new type of light that boasts the properties of both light and electricity.

By trapping photons inside a tiny gold cavity, scientists have created a hybrid state of light and matter. This could allow them to develop tiny on-chip lasers or tweak the chemical bonds of single molecules.

Researchers have managed to entangle three photons and add a 3-D corkscrew motion that effectively allows multiple recipients to simultaneously receive information securely encoded in the one transmission

Scientists working at the University of Chicago and the Argonne National Laboratory claim to have entangled atomic nuclei at room temperature on a semiconductor chip, using the application of relatively small magnetic fields.

Before the calendar keels over into 2016, let's take a wander through some of the year's most significant, salutary and attention-grabbing examples of science and technology.

By altering the quantum interactions of the electrons in the atoms of a metal's atoms, scientists from the University of Leeds have generated magnetism in metals that aren’t normally magnetic. This move could one day reduce our reliance on rare or toxic metals in a range of fields,

IBM scientists have unveiled two crucial advances toward the creation of a practical quantum computer: an effective way to detect and correct quantum errors, and the design of a silicon chip that can scale up to house a large number of entangled quantum bits.

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have created a graphene-clad nanoscale biomicrorobot that promises to lay the foundations for future generations of bio-derived nanobots, biomicrorobotic-mechanisms, and micromechanical automatons for a wide range of applications.

With properties that seemingly defy normal physics, Helium-4 superfluid has long defied practical demonstrations of its theorized quasiparticle structure. Now physicists claim to have synthesized this structure in a laser latticed, super-cold superfluid by giving the whole thing a good shake.

A new micro-ring resonator has been developed that is claimed to produce copious numbers of entangled photons using miniscule amounts of energy and can fit onto an ordinary silicon chip. This advance promises to bring quantum computing, communication, and cryptography closer to a practical reality.

As can be expected from TV manufacturers across the board, LG has announced that it will unveil a new 4K UHD TV at CES 2015. What makes this (as yet nameless) model interesting is the fact that it will make use of quantum dot technology. In short, that means brighter, more colorful viewing.

Quantum technologies are becoming increasingly difficult to advance without memories able to appropriately store atomic-spin information. To help address this problem, scientists from the University of Warsaw claim to have developed a laser-driven atomic memory.