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Simplicity and (quantum) complexity

3 May 2012

Simulations of reality would require less memory on a quantum computer than on a classical computer, new research from scientists at the University of Bristol, published in Nature Communications, has shown.

€3 million to solve the long-distance quantum communication problem

25 April 2012

A solution to the problem of sending information in single quantum particles over global distances could be a step closer thanks to grants of over €3 million that have been awarded to researchers in the University of Bristol’s Quantum Photonics group.

Water, water everywhere – but is it essential to life?

16 April 2012

New research by scientists at the University of Bristol has challenged one of the key beliefs in chemistry: that proteins are dependent on water to survive and function.

Quantum article featured in Nature news and views

16 April 2012

A perspective article Quantum Optics: an entangled walk of photons by Jonathan Matthews and Mark Thompson appeared in Nature News and Views recently.

£140,000 for research into peptide nanotubes

2 April 2012

Professor Dek Woolfson, Dr David Fermin and Dr Franziska Thomas in the School of Chemistry have secured a three-year Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant.

Nanoscience on film

30 March 2012

A series of new films has shone a spotlight on the many facets of the University of Bristol, including a 'Journey into Nanoscience'.

Shear stiffness and friction mechanics of single-layer graphene measured for the first time

14 February 2012

Researchers from the University of Bristol have measured and identified for the first time the stress and strain shear modulus and internal friction of graphene sheets.

Bruker 'Seeing at the Nanoscale 2012' conference

9 February 2012

Call for papers for the tenth annual scientific conference focusing on nanostructural imaging, characterization, and technique development in Biology, Energy, and Material Science Applications using scanning probe microscopy (SPM) and related techniques.

Quantum biology and Ockham’s razor

6 February 2012

In a paper just published in Nature Chemistry, a team of University of Bristol scientists explores whether new models or concepts are needed to tackle one of the ‘grand challenges’ of chemical biology: understanding enzyme catalysis.

Quantum physicists shed new light on relation between entanglement and nonlocality

30 January 2012

New research from the University of Bristol may disprove a long-standing conjecture made by one of the founders of quantum information science: that quantum states featuring ‘positive partial transpose’, a particular symmetry under time-reversal, can never lead to nonlocality.