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Surprising nanoscopic heat traps found in diamonds

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:00:00 GMT

University of Warwick scientists discover “hot spots” around atomic defects in diamonds – challenging assumptions about the world’s best heat conductor.

Scientists achieve record-breaking electrical conductivity in new quantum material

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:00:00 GMT

Scientists at the University of Warwick and the National Research Council of Canada have achieved and measured the highest “hole mobility” ever recorded in a silicon-compatible material.

Diamonds will shine a light on quantum mystery in new project at the University of Warwick and UCL

Wed, 03 Aug 2022 08:45:59 GMT

A new project at the University of Warwick and UCL aims to answer a fundamental question of quantum physics, by attempting to make a diamond exist in a superposition of two places at once.

Chaotic electrons heed ‘limit’ in strange metals

Tue, 03 Aug 2021 11:54:59 GMT

Electrons in metals try to behave like obedient motorists, but they end up more like bumper cars. They may be reckless drivers, but a new study involving the University of Warwick confirms this chaos has a limit established by the laws of quantum mechanics.

Grasshopper jumping on Bloch sphere finds new quantum insights

Mon, 10 Aug 2020 08:59:00 GMT

New research at the University of Warwick has (pardon the pun) put a new spin on a mathematical analogy involving a jumping grasshopper and its ideal lawn shape. This work could help us understand the spin states of quantum-entangled particles.

Ultrafast quantum simulations: a new twist to an old approach

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 10:54:55 GMT

Billions of tiny interactions occur between thousands of particles in every piece of matter in the blink of an eye. Simulating these interactions in their full dynamics was said to be elusive but has now been made possible by new work of researchers from Oxford and Warwick.

Computer program developed to find ‘leakage’ in quantum computers

Tue, 19 Mar 2019 14:06:00 GMT

A new computer program that spots when information in a quantum computer is escaping to unwanted states will give users of this promising technology the ability to check its reliability without any technical knowledge for the first time.

Spotting nature’s own evolution of quantum tricks could transform quantum technology

Thu, 22 Nov 2018 12:22:51 GMT

A new test to spot where the ability to exploit the power of quantum mechanics has evolved in nature has been developed by physicists at the University of Warwick.

Santa has never been stuck up the chimney says Warwick quantum physicist

Wed, 13 Dec 2017 09:29:56 GMT

A researcher at the University of Warwick is challenging the theory that ‘Santa got stuck up the chimney’ by suggesting that he uses ‘quantum tunnelling’ to get himself in and out of our homes.