Record-breaking performance in data security achieved with quantum mechanics
A joint team of researchers led by scientists at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) has reported the fastest quantum random number generator (QRNG) to date based on international benchmarks. The QRNG, which passed the required randomness tests of the National Institute of Standards
A new method to control the rovibrational ground state of a single molecular hydrogen ion
The precise measurement of states in atomic and molecular systems can help to validate fundamental physics theories and their predictions. Among the various platforms that can help to validate theoretical predictions are so-called diatomic molecular hydrogen ions (MHI), molecular ions that consist of two hydrogen nuclei (i.e., protons or their isotopes) and a single electron.Quantum
First-of-its-kind measurement may help physicists learn about gluons, which hold together nuclei in atoms
A team of physicists has embarked on a journey where few others have gone: into the glue that binds atomic nuclei. The resultant measurement, which was extracted from experimental data taken at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, is the first of its kind and will help physicists image particles called