Tag Archives: Physics
Illuminating Quantum Limits
Which factors determine how fast a quantum computer can perform its calculations? Physicists at the University of Bonn and the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology have devised an elegant experiment to answer this question. The results of the study are published in the journal Science Advances. Quantum computers are highly sophisticated machines that rely… Read More
Tiny Lasers Acting Together as One
Israeli and German researchers have developed a way to force an array of vertical cavity lasers to act together as a single laser – a highly effective laser network the size of a grain of sand. The findings are presented in a new joint research paper that was published online by Science on Friday, September… Read More
A Centuries-Old Mystery? Solved.
The three-body problem is one of the oldest problems in physics: it concerns the motions of systems of three bodies – like the Sun, Earth, and the Moon – and how their orbits change and evolve due to their mutual gravity. The three-body problem has been a focus of scientific inquiry ever since Newton. When… Read More
Schmidt Science Fellowship
Dr. Ofer Neufeld, who completed three consecutive degrees at the Technion and recently completed his doctoral research in the Faculty of Physics, has been informed that he is the recipient of a Schmidt Science Fellowship. The Schmidt Science Fellows program, which was founded by Wendy and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt to cultivate the next… Read More
Breaking the Diffraction Limit
In a new article, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology scientists document findings that could significantly improve the resolution of telescopes. The research, which was performed by Ph. D. student Gal Gumpel and supervised by Dr. Erez Ribak from the Technion Department of Physics, was published in the Journal of the Optical Society of America… Read More
Israeli to Take Technion Experiments to Space
Three Technion projects will be tested onboard the International Space Station, as part of the Ramon Foundation and the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology’s “Rakia Mission.” The projects selected for the mission were announced today at the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation. Speaking in the name of all winning projects, Prof. Moran Bercovici… Read More
Hawking Radiation and the Sonic Black Hole
Stephen Hawking predicted that a black hole – a celestial object with such strong gravity that nothing can escape its grip – radiates like an ordinary warm object (a “black body,” which emits constant radiation that depends solely on its temperature), like a star. As such, not only should black holes emit radiation, but this “Hawking… Read More