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"Uncertain Principles" features the miscellaneous ramblings of a physicist at a small liberal arts college. Physics, politics, pop culture, and occasional conversations with his dog.
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Category: Physics
A scary-smart Harvard-MIT collaboration demonstrates a way to switch light fields on and off using other light fields, which is really cool, but all that much like the news story describing the work.
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Category: Physics
Physics World reports on the awarding of a major French prize in science: A physicist has been awarded France's top science prize for his work on atomic physics and quantum optics. Serge Haroche -- one of the founding fathers of...
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Category: Meetings
Condensed matter analogues, astro-combs, and fast cars.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:52 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Meetings
Quantum computing in diamond, cold spinor gases, and crazy precision measurements.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:30 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
Transverse or longitudinal?
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:03 AM • 41 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
I was surprised, a few days ago, to see a post from ZapperZ recommending a Wall Street Journal article on quantum entanglement. It was surprising not only because it's weird to see anything in the WSJ that doesn't have an...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
As I understand it, the Physics ArXiv Blog is not affiliated with the people who actually run the Arxiv (Paul Ginsparg et al.). Which is probably good, as I'm never entirely sure how seriously to take the papers they highlight....
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:45 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
The latest results from the Wineland group represent a dramatic improvement in the propsects for ion trap quantum computing.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:10 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
Scientific American has an article by David Albert and Rivka Galchen with the New Scientist-ish headline Was Einstein Wrong?: A Quantum Threat to Special Relativity and the sub-head "Entanglement, like many quantum effects, violates some of our deepest intuitions about...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:40 AM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
Most people's first exposure to the ideas of modern atomic physics comes through the Bohr model of hydrogen, which treats the atom as something like a little solar system, with the positively charged nucleus as the sun, and negatively charged...
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