scholarly journals Introduction to: Management Perspectives at the Convergence of Eastern Wisdom and Quantum Science

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
James Stoner ◽  
Richard Peregoy
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Science

scholarly journals Quantum Physics Literacy Aimed at K12 and the General Public

Universe ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Caterina Foti ◽  
Daria Anttila ◽  
Sabrina Maniscalco ◽  
Maria Luisa Chiofalo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
General Public ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Physics Teaching ◽  
Physics Students ◽  
Formidable Challenge ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Quantum Phenomena ◽  
Smart Community ◽  
Quantum Science

Educating K12 students and general public in quantum physics represents an evitable must no longer since quantum technologies are going to revolutionize our lives. Quantum literacy is a formidable challenge and an extraordinary opportunity for a massive cultural uplift, where citizens learn how to engender creativity and practice a new way of thinking, essential for smart community building. Scientific thinking hinges on analyzing facts and creating understanding, and it is then formulated with the dense mathematical language for later fact checking. Within classical physics, learners’ intuition may in principle be educated via classroom demonstrations of everyday-life phenomena. Their understanding can even be framed with the mathematics suited to their instruction degree. For quantum physics, on the contrary, we have no experience of quantum phenomena and the required mathematics is beyond non-expert reach. Therefore, educating intuition needs imagination. Without rooting to experiments and some degree of formal framing, educators face the risk to provide only evanescent tales, often misled, while resorting to familiar analogies. Here, we report on the realization of QPlayLearn, an online platform conceived to explicitly address challenges and opportunities of massive quantum literacy. QPlayLearn’s mission is to provide multilevel education on quantum science and technologies to anyone, regardless of age and background. To this aim, innovative interactive tools enhance the learning process effectiveness, fun, and accessibility, while remaining grounded on scientific correctness. Examples are games for basic quantum physics teaching, on-purpose designed animations, and easy-to-understand explanations on terminology and concepts by global experts. As a strategy for massive cultural change, QPlayLearn offers diversified content for different target groups, from primary school all the way to university physics students. It is addressed also to companies wishing to understand the potential of the emergent quantum industry, journalists, and policymakers needing to seize what quantum technologies are about, as well as all quantum science enthusiasts.

scholarly journals Essential Role of Quantum Science and Nanoscience in Antiviral Strategies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mina Zare ◽  
Mika Sillanpää ◽  
Seeram Ramakrishna
Keyword(s):  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Viral Infection ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Quantum Science

The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) caused the pandemic COVID-19 disease since December 2019 highlights the importance of developing efficient antiviral strategies to prevent and treat viral infection. Virus...

First in-beam application of thallium bromide semiconductor detectors to particle-induced X-ray emission

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 53-59
Author(s):  
M. Nogami ◽  
K. Hitomi ◽  
A. Terakawa ◽  
K. Ishii
Keyword(s):  
Room Temperature ◽  
Semiconductor Detectors ◽  
Science Center ◽  
Active Volume ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Thallium Bromide ◽  
Quantum Science ◽  
First Time ◽  
Aomori Prefecture ◽  
Zone Purification

For the first time, particle-induced X-ray emission (PIXE) spectra were obtained using TlBr detectors. The TlBr detector was fabricated from a crystal grown with material purified by the zone purification. Its active volume was 1.5 mm × 1.5 mm × 3.1 mm, and it exhibited an energy resolution of a 6.2 keV full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) for 59.5 keV at room temperature. The detector was installed into a PIXE system at Aomori Prefecture Quantum Science Center. A Pb plate target in the PIXE chamber was irradiated with a 20 MeV proton beam, and X-ray peaks for Pb K[Formula: see text] and K[Formula: see text] were successfully detected by the TlBr detector at room temperature.

scholarly journals Opportunity-as-Hologram, real or artificial in Entrepreneurship

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Leong
Keyword(s):  
David Bohm ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Subatomic Particles ◽  
Implicate Order ◽  
Act Up ◽  
Quantum Science ◽  
Will Self ◽  
Feature Discovery ◽  
Objective Existence ◽  
Explicate Order

<div> <div> <div> <p>Entrepreneurship concerns actions under uncertainties. Situated within that uncertainties are opportunities that entrepreneurs seek. How are these opportunities seen? Within the entrepreneurial opportunities are seeds with potentialities. Potentialities for profits. They are the reasons that entrepreneurs act up to exploit and to set in motion the entrepreneurial emergence. The intentionality follows with construction of a coherent set of activities or incoherent intuitive moves to pursue the opportunity, including injecting resources and mobilizing social and material networks. How are opportunities discovered, and perceived? The current academic debates feature discovery and creation. Are they existing independently, with pre-existing reality, even without being observed? Or as some argued that opportunities are not pre-existing in space and time with an objective existence but are subjectively and socially constructed. On contact with such opportunities, what spur entrepreneurs to act and what are the forces at work? Are they real or artificial? Can they be holographic representation and provide cues and signals to entrepreneurs to act? Can opportunity-as-hologram explains how entrepreneurs get inspired and motivated to pursuing the opportunities? </p> <p>This paper will explore, revisit and recast perspectives on opportunities and addressing the subtle conceptual issues at the core of entrepreneurship theories that hold the two views, discovery and creation of opportunities to be both valid and mutually non-exclusive, on holographic terms. In the discussion, this paper will explore implicate order and explicate order which are quantum theory concepts theorized by physicist David Bohm as these theories were developed to explain the bizarre and unpredictable behaviours of subatomic particles, which have strong semblance to the same free-spiritedness and free-will self-organization behaviours of entrepreneurs. </p> <p>Our theorization will have implications for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial researches relating to quantum science references. </p> </div> </div> </div>

scholarly journals Diamond-based quantum technologies

Photoniques ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 44-48
Author(s):  
Toeno Van Der Sar ◽  
Tim Hugo Taminiau ◽  
Ronald Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Computation ◽  
Long Range ◽  
Quantum Coherence ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Quantum Networks ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Quantum Sensing ◽  
Quantum Science

Optically accessible spins associated with defects in diamond provide a versatile platform for quantum science and technology. These spins combine multiple key characteristics, including long quantum coherence times, operation up to room temperature, and the capability to create long-range entanglement links through photons. These unique properties have propelled spins in diamond to the forefront of quantum sensing, quantum computation and simulation, and quantum networks.

Recent advances in optical metasurfaces for polarization detection and engineered polarization profiles

Nanophotonics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 1003-1014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuttana Intaravanne ◽  
Xianzhong Chen
Keyword(s):  
Optical Communications ◽  
Light Propagation ◽  
Optical Elements ◽  
Fundamental Physics ◽  
Fundamental Properties ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Quantum Science ◽  
Polarization Profiles ◽  
Polarization Detection ◽  
A Current

AbstractLike amplitude, phase and frequency, polarization is one of the fundamental properties of light, which can be used to record, process and store information. Optical metasurfaces are ultrathin inhomogeneous media with planar nanostructures that can manipulate the optical properties of light at the subwavelength scale, which have become a current subject of intense research due to the desirable control of light propagation. The unprecedented capability of optical metasurfaces in the manipulation of the light’s polarization at subwavelength resolution has provided an unusual approach for polarization detection and arbitrary manipulation of polarization profiles. A compact metasurface platform has been demonstrated to detect polarization information of a light beam and to arbitrarily engineer a polarization profile that is very difficult or impossible to realize with conventional optical elements. This review will focus on the recent progress on ultrathin metasurface devices for polarization detection and realization of customized polarization profiles. Optical metasurfaces have provided new opportunities for polarization detection and manipulation, which can facilitate real-world deployment of polarization-related devices and systems in various research fields, including sensing, imaging, encryption, optical communications, quantum science, and fundamental physics.

scholarly journals Observation of an environmentally insensitive solid-state spin defect in diamond

Science ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 361 (6397) ◽  
pp. 60-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendon C. Rose ◽  
Ding Huang ◽  
Zi-Huai Zhang ◽  
Paul Stevenson ◽  
Alexei M. Tyryshkin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Relaxation Times ◽  
Lattice Relaxation ◽  
Spin Lattice Relaxation ◽  
Zero Phonon Line ◽  
Spin Lattice ◽  
Network Applications ◽  
Field Noise ◽  
Quantum Science ◽  
State Spin

Engineering coherent systems is a central goal of quantum science. Color centers in diamond are a promising approach, with the potential to combine the coherence of atoms with the scalability of a solid-state platform. We report a color center that shows insensitivity to environmental decoherence caused by phonons and electric field noise: the neutral charge state of silicon vacancy (SiV0). Through careful materials engineering, we achieved >80% conversion of implanted silicon to SiV0. SiV0 exhibits spin-lattice relaxation times approaching 1 minute and coherence times approaching 1 second. Its optical properties are very favorable, with ~90% of its emission into the zero-phonon line and near–transform-limited optical linewidths. These combined properties make SiV0 a promising defect for quantum network applications.

scholarly journals The World as a Quantum Information Processor

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Maldonado
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Quantum Information ◽  
Quantum Information Processing ◽  
Limit Case ◽  
Computational Approaches ◽  
Classical World ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Quantum Science ◽  
The Universe

It is impossible to fully grasp reality and the universe without a sound understanding of quantum science, i.e. theory. The aim of this paper is twofold, namely first presenting what quantum information processing consists of, and then consequently discussing the implications of quantum science to the understanding of reality. I shall claim that the world is fully quantum, and the classical world is but a limit case of the quantum world. The crux of the argument is that quantum information can be taken as a living phenomenon. Quantum information processing (QIP) has been mainly the subject of computational approaches (Cooper and Hodges, 2016). Here we take it as the way in which information allows for a non-dualistic explanation of the world. In this sense, quantum information processing consists in understanding how entanglement stands as the ground for a coherent reality yet highly dynamical, vibrant and vivid. Information, I argue, is a living phenomenon that creates itself out of nothing. Quantum information is a relational view of entities, systems, phenomena, and events (Auletta, 2005).

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