Monthly Archives: May 2010

More Quantum Information Theory From String Theory

Posted on May 27, 2010 by woit

Claims made recently in the CERN Courier that string theory can be applied to Quantum Information Theory (see here) are being followed up with a new paper entitled Four-qubit entanglement from string theory which appears to claim that, despite what … Continue reading →

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Short Items

Posted on May 25, 2010 by woit

Beam intensity at the LHC continues to increase with successful collision this morning of beams containing 13 bunches of protons, producing an initial luminosity of about 1.5 x 1029cm-2s-1. This is about a factor of 1000 below the goal for … Continue reading →

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Applying String Theory to Quantum Information Theory

Posted on May 10, 2010 by woit

There’s a remarkable article by Mike Duff in this month’s CERN Courier, arguing the case that string theory does too have important applications: in Quantum Information Theory. The claim seems to be that since the same algebraic structures appear in … Continue reading →

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LHC Update: Bing Bang Machine Could Confirm or Disprove String Theory

Posted on May 5, 2010 by woit

Today’s CERN LHCC meeting had a wide-range of reports about how the machine is doing (1 nb-1 now, 10 nb-1 over the next 5 weeks), what the experiments are seeing (charm, Ws), and what physics might be possible with the … Continue reading →

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First Results From XENON100

Posted on May 4, 2010 by woit

The XENON100 dark matter experiment now has a paper out reporting their first results, from a test run of 11 days. They claim a 90% confidence level exclusion of 50 GeV WIMPs with a spin-independent elastic cross-section above 3 x … Continue reading →

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String Vacuum Project 2010

Posted on May 3, 2010 by woit

I’ve written before about the String Vacuum Project (back in 2006 and 2008), and there was a story about it in Nature. This week they are having an SVP 2010 Spring Meeting at the KITP, talks available here. A proposal … Continue reading →

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