Category Archives: quantum physics
Mathematicians Tame Rogue Waves, Lighting Up Future of LEDs | Quanta Magazine
The mathematician Svitlana Mayboroda and collaborators have figured out how to predict the behavior of electrons — a mathematical discovery that could have immediate practical effects.
Source: Mathematicians Tame Rogue Waves, Lighting Up Future of LEDs | Quanta Magazine
A Career in Quantum Physics: Interview with Suyog Shrestha – Sujhaab Chautaari
Chautaari interviews Suyog Shrestha, a quantum physicist at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider who was part of the team who discovered the Higgs boson.
Source: A Career in Quantum Physics: Interview with Suyog Shrestha – Sujhaab Chautaari
Quantum Questions Inspire New Math
In order to fully understand the quantum world, we may have to develop a new realm of mathematics.
Mathematics might be more of an environmental science than we realize. Even though it is a search for eternal truths, many mathematical concepts trace their origins to everyday experience. Astrology and architecture inspired Egyptians and Babylonians to develop geometry. The study of mechanics during the scientific revolution of the 17th century brought us calculus.
Remarkably, ideas from quantum theory turn out to carry tremendous mathematical power as well, even though we have little daily experience dealing with elementary particles. The bizarre world of quantum theory — where things can seem to be in two places at the same time and are subject to the laws of probability — not only represents a more fundamental description of nature than what preceded it, it also provides a rich context for modern mathematics. Could the logical structure of quantum theory, once fully understood and absorbed, inspire a new realm of mathematics that might be called “quantum mathematics”?
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Physicists investigate the structure of time…
Although in theory it may seem possible to divide time up into infinitely tiny intervals, the smallest physically meaningful interval of time is widely considered to be the Planck time, which is approximately 10-43 seconds. This ultimate limit means that it is not possible for two events to be separated by a time smaller than this.
Physicists investigate the structure of time, with implications for quantum mechanics and philosophy
Taming Superconductors With String Theory | Quanta Magazine
The physicist Subir Sachdev borrows tools from string theory to understand the puzzling behavior of high-temperature superconductors.
Time Entanglement Raises Quantum Mysteries | Quanta Magazine
Quantum Weirdness Now a Matter of Time Bizarre quantum bonds connect distinct moments in time, suggesting that quantum links — not space-time — constitute the fundamental structure of the universe.
Source: Time Entanglement Raises Quantum Mysteries | Quanta Magazine
Holometer rules out first theory of space-time correlations | symmetry magazine
The extremely sensitive quantum-spacetime-measuring tool will serve as a template for continuing scientific exploration.
The extremely sensitive quantum-spacetime-measuring tool will serve as a template for continuing scientific exploration.
Holometer rules out first theory of space-time correlations | symmetry magazine
New derivation of pi links quantum physics to pure math
John Wallis derivation of PI- 1655
