Tag Archives: quantum tunnelling

A transistor for heat

Posted on August 25, 2025 by

Quantum technologies and the prospect of advanced, next-generation electronic devices have been maturing at an increasingly rapid pace. Both research groups and governments around the world are investing more attention in this domain. India for example mooted its National Quantum … Continue reading →

Posted in Scicomm | Tagged electrical transistors, electrons, materials science, National Quantum Mission, negative differential thermal conductance, photons, quantum computers, quantum tunnelling, relaxation time, superconducting wires, thermal reservoirs, variable range hopping | Comments Off

Making sense of quantum annealing

Posted on September 5, 2017 by

One of the tougher things about writing and reading about quantum mechanics is keeping up with how the meaning of some words change as they graduate from being used in the realm of classical mechanics – where things are what … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged cryptography, D-Wave 2000Q, encryption, metaheuristic, metastable, potential wells, quantum annealing, quantum computing, quantum tunnelling, semantics, Shor's algorithm | Comments Off

Is the universe as we know it stable?

Posted on November 11, 2015 by

The anthropic principle has been a cornerstone of fundamental physics, being used by some physicists to console themselves about why the universe is the way it is: tightly sandwiched between two dangerous states. If the laws and equations that define … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged anthropic principle, Circular Electron-Positron Collider, Higgs field, quantum tunnelling, scalar potential, top quark | Comments Off