Tag: Quantum Physics

Quantum Radio let behind GPS technology

Posted on by Haptic

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated that quantum physics might enable communications and mapping in locations where GPS and ordinary cellphones and radios don’t work reliably or even at all, such as indoors, in urban canyons, underwater and underground. The technology may help mariners, soldiers and surveyors, among others. Read more about Quantum Radio let behind GPS technology[…]

Nanomagnets Levitate Thanks to Quantum Physics

Posted on by Haptic

Quantum physicists in Oriol Romero-Isart’s research group in Innsbruck show in two current publications that, despite Earnshaw’s theorem, nanomagnets can be stably levitated in an external static magnetic field owing to quantum mechanical principles. The quantum angular momentum of electrons, which also causes magnetism, is accountable for this mechanism. Already in 1842, British mathematician Samuel Read more about Nanomagnets Levitate Thanks to Quantum Physics[…]