3D laser tracking on passive sphere At the LASER World of PHOTONICS in June 2019, qutools presented its laser tracking system based on the interferometer quDIS. Playing the xylophone The tracking unit traced a reflecting sphere and measured the distance interferometrically. The sphere was mounted on a stick to use […]
We at qutools are huge Feynman fans. His contributions to physics (OK, they are a little too evolved for me to judge) were special enough to win him a Nobel Prize. He apparently also contributed quite significantly in finding the reason for the Challenger catastrophe. But on top of all […]
At the APS March Meeting in Boston, Paul Kwiat and his crew had set up their “LabEscape“. It is a science (mainly physics) based escape room. Katya (Quantum Design) and Henning (qutools) teamed up with two other APS meeting participants to solve numerous puzzles and help the famous researcher Professor […]
Last month at the DPG meetings in Erlangen and Berlin, our quTAG measured the time of the laps in our Slot Car race. In total, we had 5140 laps from 248 players – we had a lot of fun and I hope you had as well! Congratulations to “Martin H.” […]
Within the last two decades, quantum physicists have been busy proposing experiments that could be done in space. At long last, their efforts seem to produce results. Lately, two more results have been published, both groups are rather well-known to qutools: Wheeler’s delayed choice experiment has been performed by Paolo […]
This was quicker than expected: Only two years after the observation of gravitational waves (we reported on this) in September 2015, the The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne, all members […]
At the Laser – World of Photonics 2017 in Munich, we had a slot car race game which we called “quRace”. Our quTAG was used to determine the lap time with ps precision – a bit of an overkill, but fun to see. Here are some statistics about the race: […]
Electrons in van der Waals materials use shortcuts to travel fast People just love protons. On the other hand side: If they talk about electrons, they always tend to emphasize the negative aspects. Though there are some advantages being an electron, too. As scientists at the KU’s Ultrafast Laser Lab […]
Do you remember „Anyone Can Quantum“? The epic quantum chess game between Paul Rudd and Stephen Hawking? We blogged about it here. Well, the team at Caltech’s Institute of Quantum Information and Matter and at Trouper Productions just made their second viral movie. It’s quite entertaining and maybe a little […]
How did James Bond win at Casino Royale? Why do I always lose at Monopoly? Is it any use to join the imperial army in Skyrim? These are the topics of game theory. Or so you might think, because that’s just plainly wrong. „Game theory“ is a rather young and […]
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