A New Kind of Theater Beats the Coronavirus Blues
Performing outside a theater is perfect for a pandemic. A scene from Detained. Courtesy of Pop-Up Theater
In 2020 the independent Pop-Up Theater celebrated its five-year anniversary. Its founder and stage director Semyon Alexandrovsky told The Moscow Times that it began when his wife and producer Anastasia Kim was pregnant. He decided to spend more time at home and turned down offers to perform on tour. In his free time, he and his friend Maxim Fomin, an actor, began to rehearse the play “Fuel” in Alexandrovsky’s kitchen.
The play is based on an interview with the well-known IT-entrepreneur, creator of the ABBYY group, David Yang. The one-man show, performed by Fomin, is similar in form to TED talks. Yang (Fomin) talks about the Moscow Institute of Physic and Technology, the first electronic dictionary, how his professional life ran in parallel with personal life. The result is
Heat provides a simple way to separate entangled electrons for research
The thermoelectric effect can be used to produce entangled electrons, according to scientists from Finland, Russia, China and the USA.
The proof-of-concept device is based on superconductivity, and combines a patterned single-layer graphene sheet (green) and metal (blue) electrodes on a silicon dioxide substrate (grey).
Superconductivity is caused by entangled pairs of electrons called Cooper pairs. These pairs enter through one electrode in the device and leave separately through two more (see photo and below), split by a temperature difference. “The resulting electrons remain entangled despite being separated for quite long distances,” said researcher Nikita Kirsanov of Aalto University in Finland.
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IMAGE: False-colour electron microscope image of the sample, the green layers are graphene on top of the grey superconductor. The blue metal electrodes are used to extract the entangled electrons view more
Credit: Aalto University
A joint group of scientists from Finland, Russia, China and the USA have demonstrated that temperature difference can be used to entangle pairs of electrons in superconducting structures. The experimental discovery, published in
Nature Communications, promises powerful applications in quantum devices, bringing us one step closer towards applications of the second quantum revolution.
The team, led by Professor Pertti Hakonen from Aalto University, has shown that the thermoelectric effect provides a new method for producing entangled electrons in a new device. Quantum entanglement is the cornerstone of the novel quantum technologies. This concept, however, has puzzled many physicists over the years, including Albert Einstein who worr
Are earthquakes to blame for Arctic warming?
The Arctic’s rapid warming could have been triggered by a series of great earthquakes, suggests new research.
| 28 Dec 2020 4:31 AM GMT
MOSCOW: The Arctic s rapid warming could have been triggered by a series of great earthquakes, suggests new research.
In the Arctic, one of the factors driving climate warming is the release of methane from permafrost and metastable gas hydrates in the shelf zone.
The study attempted to offer an explanation for abrupt temperature changes observed in the region. Global warming is widely believed to be caused by human activity, which increases the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.