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Creating a six-qubit cluster state

Physics / Quantum Physics

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

(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 Three-Color Entanglement

Physicists Demonstrate Three-Color Entanglement

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (25) | comments 3 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, physicists have demonstrated the quantum entanglement of three light beams, all of different wavelengths. Entanglement of two light beams of different wavelengths has already ...


Physicists Investigate Unusual Four-Qubit Entanglement

Physicists Investigate Unusual Four-Qubit Entanglement

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (20) | comments 5 feature

(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. ...


Physicists Explain How Human Eyes Can Detect Quantum Effects

Physicists Explain How Human Eyes Can Detect Quantum Effects

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (46) | comments 19 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- By greatly amplifying one photon from an entangled photon pair, physicists have theoretically shown that human eyes can be used as detectors to observe quantum effects. Usually, detecting ...


Post-Quantum Correlations: Exploring the Limits of Quantum Nonlocality

Post-Quantum Correlations: Exploring the Limits of Quantum Nonlocality

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (22) | comments 20 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to nonlocal correlations, some correlations are more nonlocal than others. As the subject of study for several decades, nonlocal correlations (for example, quantum entanglement) ...


Entangled Light in Bose-Einstein Condensates

Entangled Light in Bose-Einstein Condensates

Physics / General Physics

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

(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 ...


Quantum computing: Entanglement may not be necessary

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 05, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (63) | comments 13 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is a truth universally acknowledged that quantum computing must have entanglement.


Mechanics: Ordinary meets quantum

New method to detect quantum mechanical effects in ordinary objects

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 1

At the quantum level, the atoms that make up matter and the photons that make up light behave in a number of seemingly bizarre ways. Particles can exist in "superposition," in more than one state at the same ...


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

Physics / General Physics

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 ...


The Death of Entanglement: Life Without Half-Life

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (17) | comments 23

(PhysOrg.com) -- Quantum entanglement, a type of correlation peculiar to quantum objects, has been found to disregard completely the "half-life" rule that is obeyed by all natural processes, such a radioactive decay.


Quantum technologies move a step closer with the demonstration of an 'entanglement' filter

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists and engineers has demonstrated an optical device that filters two particles of light (or photons) based on the correlations between their polarisation that are only allowed in the seemingly ...


Deterministic Entanglement Swapping: First successful implementation of a technique for quantum computers

Deterministic entanglement swapping: First successful implementation of a technique for quantum computers

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 26, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (62) | comments 10

(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 ...


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 ...


Computing in the quantum dimension

Computing in the quantum dimension

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 12, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 2

A huge consortium of European researchers is solving some of the fundamental obstacles blocking real quantum computing applications in the short term. At the same time, it is helping to pave the way to a quantum ...