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Researchers find quantum errors do compute

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from The University of Queensland have found the emerging field of quantum computing may be more stable than previously thought.


Goal: developing the best atomic clock in the world

Physics / General Physics

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

They are masters at working with light: the scientists at the newly founded QUEST Institute at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig. And they want to work on some of the most exciting questions relating ...





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Scientists demonstrate all-fiber quantum logic

Scientists demonstrate all-fiber quantum logic

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | 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.


Quantum paradox directly observed -- a milestone in quantum mechanics

Quantum paradox directly observed -- a milestone in quantum mechanics

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (35) | comments 13

In quantum mechanics, a vanguard of physics where science often merges into philosophy, much of our understanding is based on conjecture and probabilities, but a group of researchers in Japan has moved one ...


The Light of Silence

Physics / General Physics

created May 02, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (18) | comments 0

Scientists have found a way of protecting quantum systems against noise using adaptively ‘shaped’ pulses of laser light. Quantum systems are notoriously fragile as interactions with their surroundings disturb them – rather ...


Photonic quantum technologies could be only light years away

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 30, 2007 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (18) | comments 0

Photonic quantum information science could soon move out of the laboratory and be used in future technologies like quantum computers thanks to a grant of over £1 million.


UCSB physicists move one step closer to quantum computing

UCSB physicists move one step closer to quantum computing

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have made an important advance in electrically controlling quantum states of electrons, a step that could help in the development of quantum computing. The work is published ...


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 ...


Solving big problems

Solving big problems with new quantum algorithm

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (33) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recently published paper, Aram Harrow at the University of Bristol and colleagues from MIT in the United States have discovered a quantum algorithm that solves large problems much faster ...


Computing breakthrough could elevate security to unprecedented levels

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 16, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 0

By using pulses of light to dramatically accelerate quantum computers, University of Michigan researchers have made strides in technology that could foil national and personal security threats.


Scientists eye risks of quantum dots

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Quantum dots have the potential to bring many good things into the world: efficient solar power, targeted gene and drug delivery, solid-state lighting and advances in biomedical imaging among them.


'Squeezing' light into quantum dots

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 2 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- “Quantum wells have been instrumental in telecommunications, enabling light amplification,” Patanjali Kambhampati tells PhysOrg.com, “but theory has suggested that a very small - colloidal - quantum dot co ...



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