New noise: researchers have discovered a new type of noise that is associated with differences in temperature. (Courtesy: iStock/Swillklitch) A new type of electronic noise has been discovered by a ...

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Physicists in the US have developed a new type of self-calibrating thermometer that exploits the shot noise in a tunnel junction to measure very low temperatures. Robert Schoelkopf of Yale University ...

Most top universities around the world now offer a course on random processes in physics. During the last years (1985–2001) of his long and productive career, Melvin Lax, one of the protagonists in ...