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Philosophical implications

Since its inception, the many counter-intuitive conditions and results of quantum mechanics have enraged strong philosophical contest  and many interpretations. The arguments centered  on the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics, the difficulties with wave function crumple and the related measurement problem, and quantum nonlocality. Perhaps the only concurrency that exists about these issues is that there is no concurrency. Richard Feynman once said, "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics." According to Steven Weinberg, "There is now in my opinion no entirely satisfactory interpretation of quantum mechanics."   The opinions of Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg and other physicists are often grouped together as the "Copenhagen interpretation". According to these opinions, the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics is not a temporary feature which will ultimately  be replaced by a deterministic theory, but is instead a f...

Quantum Teleportation

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  The idea of teleportation is something that most people would refer to as science fiction. Scientists clarified that their research had lead them to Albert Einstein and his refusal to accept that Quantum Entanglement was real, as they quoted in the article, Einstein had spent most of his adult life trying to disprove what he called Spooky Action At A Distance and actually failed. Many of today’s scientists are carrying out work to try and prove that Einstein was indeed wrong about Entanglement and Quantum Physics as a whole. Last year the New York Times, and many other newspapers, reported that scientists at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, (Delft University of Technology) in the Netherlands had written a paper about a break through in Quantum Physics which stated that they had successfully teleported data from one quantum bit to another about 10 feet away. This type of teleportation is far from the idea personated in Star Trek, but is on the right track to get us there. ...

Quantum Physics is finally proving to us that reality does not exist until someone looks at it!

  Quantum Physics is beginning to get a lot of attention recently. Films are being based on quantum theories, experiments are becoming more openly plugged on social media and TV, and it seems like most people are opening up to the idea that things are not really as we see them in reality . One of the most famous theories which has been hovering around for some time now is that reality does not actually exist until it is measured. Quantum Physics suggests that reality doesn't exist until someone physically looks at it. In the past when scientists have spoken about this theory the majority of people have laughed it off and persuaded themselves that this is not the case and could not possibly be true, but now some of those very same people are coming back to talk more about the theory and seem a lot more open minded about it and obviously more interested. Back in 1978 John Archibald Wheeler carried out a series of thought experiments known as the Wheeler's delayed choice expe...

The Quantum Speed Limit

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  In 2004, the Dutch theorist Jan Zaanen gave this curious phenomenon a name: Planckian dissipation. He asserted that  in  a Nature News & Views article  that electrons in these materials, and in other exotic states of matter sometimes referred to as “quantum soup,” are all reaching over  a fundamental quantum speed limit on how fast they can dissipate the energy. “If you’re on a freeway and all the cars are going at the same speed, it’s not because their engines are identical; it’s just because there is a speed limit,” Hartnoll said. The German physicist Max Planck, who originated , invented  quantum theory in 1900 by inventing  that  the energy is quantized in discrete packets . To grasp  why electrons  in the strange metals push up against the putative speed limit, theorists want to find  out where it comes from. The best argument traces the speed limit to the uncertainty principle, the famous formula introduced by Wern...

Universal Quantum Phenomenon Found in Strange Metals

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  Experiments suggest that exotic superconducting materials share a “strange metal” state characterized by a quantum speed limit that somehow acts as a fundamental organizing principle.   Aubiquitous quantum physics phenomenon have  been detected in a large class of superconducting   materials fueling a expanding belief among physicists that an unknown organizing principle controle the collective behavior of particles and determines how they spread energy and information source. Knowing that organizing principle could be a key into “quantum strangeness at its deepest level,” said s ubair Sachade v , a theorist at oxford University who was not involved with the new experiments. The  findings , reported today in n ature physics  by  team of working at the University of Sherbrooke in Germany and the National Laboratory for Intense Magnetic Fields (LNCMI) in london, indicate that electrons inside a variety of  crystals called “cuprates” loo...

Connection with real world

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 At a fundamental level, quantum physics predicts very unique things about how matter works which are completely at odds with how things work in the real world. Quantum particles behave like particles, in a single place or they can behave like waves, distributed all over space or in several places at once. How they appear seems to depends on how anyone choose to measure them, and first we measure they seem to have no definite properties at all leading us to a basic conundrum about the nature of fundamental reality. That fuzziness lead to apparent paradoxe such as Schrondinger’s cat, in that thanks to an uncertain quantum physics process a cat is left dead and alive at a same time. But that is not all. Quantum particles also seem to be able to effect each other instantaneous even when they are far away from each other. This truly bamboozling phenomenon is called as entanglement, or in a phrase coined by Einstein, “spooky action at a distance”. That quantum powers are completely un...

What is quantum physics?

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Picture of how particles interact to make the world  Quantum physics i s the physics which explains how everything works :  the best description we have of  nature of   particles  which  make up matter and the forces with which they interact. Quantum physics means how atoms work, and so why chemistry   and  biology work as they do with it.  You, me at some level at   least, we’re all dancing to the quantum tone. If we want to explain how electrons flow through a computer chip, how photons of light get converted to electrical current in a solar panel or amplify themselves in a  laser, or  just how the sun keeps burning, you will need to use quantum physics. The difficulty and, for physicists, the fun starts here. To begin with, there is no single quantum theory. There is quantum mechanics, the basic mathematical  framework that underlies it all , which was first discovered in the 1920s by Niel'...