Physicists demonstrate storage and retrieval of single photons between remote memories

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Researchers Thierry Chaneliere and Dzmitry Matsukevich pose with equipment used to demonstrate storage of a single photon in a q
A series of publications in the journal Nature highlights the race among competing research groups toward the long-anticipated goal of quantum networking.


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Could Graphene Replace Semiconductors?

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(PhysOrg.com) -- “People want a faster computer chip,” Philip Kim tells PhysOrg.com. “And it needs to be smaller. But in order to increase the speed of the chip, or to get it smaller, we are approaching a point where ...

Countdown starts in quest to pierce secrets of Universe

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Particle physicists believe they will throw open a new frontier of knowledge on Wednesday when, 100 metres (325 feet) below ground, they switch on a mega-machine crafted to unveil the deepest mysteries of ...

New concept for creating quantum states in many-body systems

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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the online edition of Nature Physics, theoretical physicists from the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) and the University of Innsbruck today are presenting ...

Physicists investigate how time moves forward

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As humans, we have a very intuitive concept of time, and of the differences between the past, present, and future. But, as scientists Edward Feng of the University of California, Berkeley, and Gavin Crooks of the Lawrence ...

Michigan integral to world's largest physics experiment

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After 20 years of construction, a machine that could either verify or nullify the prevailing theory of particle physics is about to begin its mission. CERN's epic Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project currently involves 25 ...
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