News tagged with superposition
Schrodinger's Cat Experiment Proposed
Sep 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the classical problems in quantum mechanics concerns a man and his feline companion. The man has placed his cat in an opaque tank and is slowing pumping it full of poison. Now until ...
Proposed Quantum Computer Consists of Billions of Electron Spins
Sep 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While researchers have already demonstrated the building blocks for few-bit quantum computers, scaling these systems up to large quantum computers remains a challenge. One of the biggest problems ...
Physicists take first step towards super-fast search algorithms for quantum computers
Jul 09, 2009 |
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When you toss a coin, you either get heads or tails. By contrast, things are not so definite at the microcosmic level. An atomic 'coin' can display a superposition of heads and tails when it has been thrown. However, this ...
New method to detect quantum mechanical effects in ordinary objects
Jun 22, 2009 |
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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 ...
Researchers make breakthrough in the quantum control of light
May 29, 2009 |
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Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have recently demonstrated a breakthrough in the quantum control of photons, the energy quanta of light. This is a significant result in quantum computation, and could eventually ...
Quantum computers will require complex software to manage errors
Apr 08, 2009 |
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(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 ...
