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Physicists establish 'spooky' quantum communication
Sep 05, 2007 |
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Physicists at the University of Michigan have coaxed two separate atoms to communicate with a sort of quantum intuition that Albert Einstein called "spooky."
Researchers Prove Existence of New Basic Element for Electronic Circuits -- 'Memristor'
Apr 30, 2008 |
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HP today announced that researchers from HP Labs have proven the existence of what had previously been only theorized as the fourth fundamental circuit element in electrical engineering.
Physicists find a new state of matter in a 'transistor'
Oct 21, 2008 |
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McGill University researchers have discovered a new state of matter, a quasi-three- dimensional electron crystal, in a material very much like those used in the fabrication of modern transistors. This discovery could have ...
Researchers Suggest Quantum Dots as Media for Teleportation
Jun 21, 2007 |
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According to recent research, tiny clusters of atoms known as quantum dots may be excellent media for quantum teleportation, a physics phenomenon in which information – in the form of a quantum state, a very specific mathematical ...
How Time-Traveling Could Affect Quantum Computing
Nov 20, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If space-time were constructed in such a way that you could travel back in time, it would create some pretty strange effects. One of these oddities, as many people know, is the “grandfather paradox.” Here, ...
Physicists Demonstrate Qubit-Qutrit Entanglement
Feb 26, 2008 |
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For the first time, physicists have entangled a qubit with a “qutrit” – the 3D version of the 2D qubit. Qubit-qutrit entanglement could lead to advantages in quantum computing, such as increased security and more efficient ...
Ultrafast quantum computer uses optically controlled electrons
Aug 15, 2007 |
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Scientists have designed a scheme to create one of the fastest quantum computers to date using light pulses to rotate electron spins, which serve as quantum bits. This technique improves the overall clock ...
Unknown molecule opens the door to quantum computing
Jun 27, 2008 |
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The odd behavior of a molecule in an experimental silicon computer chip has led to a discovery that opens the door to quantum computing in semiconductors.
Scientists discover exotic quantum state of matter
Apr 24, 2008 |
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A team of scientists from Princeton University has found that one of the most intriguing phenomena in condensed-matter physics -- known as the quantum Hall effect -- can occur in nature in a way that no one ...
Current theories can't explain observed spin segregation
Oct 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Experiments with quantum systems sometimes yield surprising results. This is exactly what happened when John Thomas, a researcher at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina found out when he and his post ...
IBM researchers unveil green optical network technology prototype
Feb 28, 2008 |
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IBM researchers today unveiled the fastest and most highly integrated optical data bus ever developed. The prototype technology could bring massive amounts of bandwidth in an energy-efficient way to all kinds ...
Hypercubes Could Be Building Blocks of Nanocomputers
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Apr 01, 2008 |
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Multi-dimensional structures called hypercubes may act as the building blocks for tomorrow’s nanocomputers – machines made of such tiny elements that they are dominated not by forces that we’re familiar with ...
Scientists make single-photon sources brighter
Dec 12, 2007 |
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Scientists have achieved a major advance in developing a single-photon light source, bringing quantum applications such as quantum computing and quantum cryptography closer to reality.
Entanglement Swapping: A New Quantum Trick
Oct 11, 2007 |
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In an important step for the infant field of quantum communications, researchers from the University of Geneva in Switzerland have, for the first time, realized an “entanglement swapping” experiment with photon pairs emitted ...
Deterministic entanglement swapping: First successful implementation of a technique for quantum computers
Oct 26, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists led by Rainer Blatt, Markus Hennrich and Mark Riebe of the Institute for Experimental Physics at Innsbruck University recently succeeded for the first time in realizing a deterministic ...
