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Field experiment on a robust hierarchical metropolitan quantum cryptography network

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Key Laboratory of Quantum Information (CAS), University of Science and Technology of China has recently demonstrated a metropolitan Quantum Cryptography Network (QCN) for Government Administration in Wuhu, China. The project ...


Up-scale: Frequency converter enables ultra-high sensitivity infrared spectrometry

Up-scale: Frequency converter enables ultra-high sensitivity infrared spectrometry

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 2

In what may prove to be a major development for scientists in fields ranging from forensics to quantum communications, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a new, ...


Researchers unite to distribute quantum keys

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Researchers from across Europe have united to build the largest quantum key distribution network ever built. The efforts of 41 research and industrial organisations were realised as secure, quantum encrypted information ...


Scientists demonstrate all-fiber quantum logic

Scientists demonstrate all-fiber quantum logic

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 3

A team of physicists and engineers have demonstrated all-fibre quantum logic, where single photons are generated and used to perform the controlled-NOT quantum logic gate in optical fibres with high fidelity.


Record in the transmission of entangled photon pairs

Austrian breakthrough in quantum cryptography: Record in the transmission of entangled photon pairs (Update)

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 03, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (11) | comments 7

Austrian physicists say a breakthrough in next-generation quantum cryptography could allow encrypted messages to be bounced off satellites, the British journal Nature reported Sunday.


Making quantum cryptography practical

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Quantum cryptography, a completely secure means of communication, is much closer to being used practically as researchers from Toshiba and Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory have now developed high speed detectors ...


Scientists demonstrate laser with controlled polarization

Scientists demonstrate laser with controlled polarization

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (15) | comments 3

Applied scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) in collaboration with researchers from Hamamatsu Photonics in Hamamatsu City, Japan, have demonstrated, for the first time, ...


Electrical engineer cracks code to detect media tampering

Electrical engineer cracks code to detect media tampering

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- An NJIT electrical engineer has cracked the code that will enable researchers around the world to detect tampering with electronic images.


Trading carats for nanometers - and defective diamonds for crystal clear microscopy

Trading carats for nanometers - and defective diamonds for crystal clear microscopy

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Large, perfect diamonds are precious to almost all of us but to some scientists, it is the defects that really matter. This is because defects can form nanoscopic color centers, which play ...


World first for sending data using quantum cryptography

World first for sending data using quantum cryptography

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 08, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (64) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time the transmission of data secured by quantum cryptography is demonstrated within a commercial telecommunications network. 41 partners from 12 European countries, including ...


Light touch: Controlling the behavior of quantum dots

Light touch: Controlling the behavior of quantum dots

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 19, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 0

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaborative center of the University of Maryland and NIST, have reported a new way to fine-tune ...


Vegas 'Quantum Spookshow' Demos On-the-Fly Encryption of Streaming Video

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 06, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Las Vegas shows often are on the cutting edge. Following this tradition, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have landed ...


Siemens builds a lock made of light: Data transfer using quantum cryptography

Siemens builds a lock made of light: Data transfer using quantum cryptography

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 01, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (14) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic communication is becoming more secure all over the world. Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Austrian Research Centers (ARC) and Graz University of Technology have joined forces ...