The Finnish Physical Society (FPS) Master Thesis Prize 2023 is awarded to Otto Veltheim from the University of Helsinki. The award will be given to Otto in the opening ceremony of Physics Days 2023 on 29th March 2023. The prize is given annually for an excellent Master thesis in the field […]
Daily archives: 27.03.2023
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by Elvis Pillinen Since the invention of the first laser in the 1960s, researchers have discovered that by mode-locking, optical pulses can be made much shorter, even down to mere femtoseconds. In human perspective, pulse created by a flashlight (millisecond, 10-3 s) is 300 km long, enough to stretch from […]
by Otto Veltheim, University of Helsinki Imagine having an unknown system, a “black box”, which outputs identical copies of an unknown quantum state. Suppose our task is to identify the state. There are multiple attributes, i.e. observables describing it, and measuring just one of them makes the state collapse to […]