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Straightening messy correlations with a quantum comb

Straightening messy correlations with a quantum comb

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Quantum computing promises ultra-fast communication, computation and more powerful ways to encrypt sensitive information. But trying to use quantum states as carriers of information is an extremely delicate ...


Scientists demonstrate 'universal' programmable quantum processor

Scientists demonstrate 'universal' programmable quantum processor

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 11

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated the first "universal" programmable quantum information processor able to run any program allowed by quantum mechanics -- th ...


NIST demonstrates sustained quantum information processing

Sustained quantum information processing demonstrated

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 1

Raising prospects for building a practical quantum computer, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically ...


Physicists find way to control individual bits in quantum computers

Physicists find way to control individual bits in quantum computers

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 3

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have overcome a hurdle in quantum computer development, having devised a viable way to manipulate a single "bit" in a quantum processor without ...


Physicists Propose New Ultracold Scheme for Scalable Quantum Information Processing

Physicists Propose New Ultracold Scheme for Scalable Quantum Information Processing

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since 1994, when Peter Shor famously showed that a quantum computer could factor large numbers exponentially faster than any current classical algorithm, physicists have been investigating ...


Quantum computers will require complex software to manage errors

Quantum computers will require complex software to manage errors

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (8) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Highlighting another challenge to the development of quantum computers, theorists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have shown* that a type of software operation, proposed ...


Researchers' 'self-correcting' gates advance quantum computing

'Self-correcting' gates advance quantum computing

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (15) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth researchers have found a way to develop more robust “quantum gates,” which are the elementary building blocks of quantum circuits. Quantum circuits, someday, will be used to ...


Researchers create atomic-sized one-stop shop for nanoelectronics (Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Pittsburgh researchers have created a nanoscale one-stop shop, a single platform for creating electronics at a nearly single-atom scale that could yield advanced forms of such technologically ...


An oblivious transfer protocol for quantum cryptography

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 01, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (22) | comments 2

“It's hard to beat the noise that you have with quantum information,” Barbara Terhal tells PhysOrg.com. “So our security protocol relies on the fact that storing quantum bits noiselessly is hard to do with current technology.”