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Getting many quantum states from one experimental setup

Getting many quantum states from one experimental setup

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 15, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (35) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- “In the traditional approach to entanglement with linear optics, one designs a new setup for each single state that you want,” Witlef Wieczorek tells PhysOrg.com. “What we’ve done is to mak ...


Physicists Investigate Unusual Four-Qubit Entanglement

Physicists Investigate Unusual Four-Qubit Entanglement

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, physicists have experimentally demonstrated a four-qubit bound-entangled state - a peculiar form of entanglement that cannot be distilled (optimized) by the usual means. ...


Quantum electronics: Two photons and chips

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created Jan 20, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (21) | comments 0

Scientists at Toshiba Research Europe Limited (Cambridge, UK) believe they are on to a way of producing entangled twins of photons using a simple semiconductor electronic device. Such a chip-based source of entangled photons ...


Classical communication problem solved using quantum entanglement

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created Mar 11, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (47) | comments 3

One of the problems plaguing classical communication is associated with what is known as the Byzantine agreement. In this problem, messages between three different parties are subject to faulty information. Quantum communication, ...


Creating a six-qubit cluster state

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many scientists believe that quantum entanglement is required in order for effective quantum computing. Entanglement takes place when there is a connection that exists between two objects - even when they ...


Physicists demonstrate quantum entanglement in mechanical system

Physicists demonstrate quantum entanglement in mechanical system

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 3

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated entanglement--a phenomenon peculiar to the atomic-scale quantum world--in a mechanical system similar to those in the macroscopic ...


Physicists detect entanglement of one photon shared among four locations

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created May 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed an efficient method to detect entanglement shared among multiple parts of an optical system. They show how entanglement, in the form of beams of ...


Loopy photons clarify 'spookiness' of quantum physics

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created Mar 18, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (50) | comments 5

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Joint Quantum Institute (NIST/University of Maryland) have developed a new method for creating pairs of entangled photons, particles of light whose ...


Entanglement on demand

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created Apr 07, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (57) | comments 1

One of the problems in quantum information processing is inefficiency. Photon entanglement is generally considered a leading candidate for quantum computing (it is used for teleportation and cryptography), but right now it ...


Shining light in quantum computing

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created Sep 12, 2006 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (10) | comments 0

University of Queensland scientist Devon Biggerstaff is investigating ways to manipulate light in a process that will help shape future supercomputers and communication technology.


Physicists make discovery in quantum mechanics

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (27) | comments 49

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have made an important advance in quantum mechanics using a superconducting electrical circuit. The finding is reported in this week's issue of the journal Nature.


Quantum cat's 'whiskers' offer advanced sensors

Quantum cat's 'whiskers' offer advanced sensors

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by Oxford University scientists has turned one of the key problems with quantum entangled systems - that they are easily ‘disturbed’ by their environment - into an advantage which ...


'Superdense' coding gets denser

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created Mar 24, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (36) | comments 1

The record for the most amount of information sent by a single photon has been broken by researchers at the University of Illinois. Using the direction of “wiggling” and “twisting” of a pair of hyper-entangled photons, they ...


JQI researchers create entangled photons from quantum dots

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 1

To exploit the quantum world to the fullest, a key commodity is entanglement—the spooky, distance-defying link that can form between objects such as atoms even when they are completely shielded from one another. Now, physicists ...


Entangled Light in Bose-Einstein Condensates

Entangled Light in Bose-Einstein Condensates

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created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- When physicists entangle light, they usually use nonlinear crystals as the source. However, it’s difficult to control the entanglement generation process in a bulk crystal, and so scientists ...