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QIPC News

2009-10-16 Entangled electrons do the splits

Physicists in Switzerland and Denmark have created a device that can separate pairs of entangled electrons.  ... more

2009-10-02 Scheme removes entropy from ultracold atoms

Physicists in Italy have shown how to transfer entropy from one ultracold gas to another using a laser beam  ... more

2009-09-25 Tricolour entanglement could connect qubits

Achievement could provide a way to create three-way optical communication links  ... more

2009-09-07 Full Program of Quantum to Cosmos Lectures now Available

The full program of talks and panels for the Quantum to Cosmos Festival has just been released.  ... more

2009-07-31 Ultracold trios tell us more about Efimov states

Italian physicist Massimo Inguscio and colleagues have gained two important insights into Efimov states – in which three or more atoms form bound states, even though pairs of the same atoms do not bind together.  ... more

2009-07-24 Quantiki Video Abstracts

Quantiki has added a collection of video abstracts explaining recent papers on the arXiv.  ... more

2009-07-10 Ultracold atom takes a quantum walk

Observation could shed light on the crossover between quantum and classical mechanics  ... more

2009-06-05 Ultra cold atoms help share quantum information

New technique could be used to transmit quantum data along optical fibres  ... more

2009-05-22 Chip targets cold atoms

New trapping method could lead to single-atom sources  ... more

2009-05-20 Is a room-temperature, solid-state quantum computer mere fantasy?  ... more

2009-05-15 Mott insulator stores light

Pulse stored for a quarter of a second in atomic gas  ... more

2009-04-02 Are you a hill-climber or a valley-crossing type of scientist?  ... more

2009-02-27 Do you have an eye for entanglement?

Proposed experiment could let humans directly see entangled photons  ... more

2009-01-23 Atoms teleport information over long distance  ... more

2008-12-19 Experiment verifies Nobel-winning theory

Physicists take important step towards quantum state engineering  ... more

2008-12-12 Lamb shift spotted in solid qubit

Discovery could help physicists design more robust quantum computers  ... more

2008-10-17 Physicists set new entanglement record

Ten qubits hyper-entangle in Schroedinger’s cat state  ... more

2008-09-19 Quantum gas of ultracold polar molecules is a first

“This is a landmark paper!” said David DeMille  ... more

2008-08-29 Quantum repeater demonstrated

Principle could be extended to open-up global quantum communication  ... more

2008-07-28 Enigma variations

An Economist article on Quantum Cryptography  ... more

2008-06-06 Multi-particle entanglement in solid is a first

Three diamond nuclei are entangled by international team  ... more

2008-05-30 Spin states endure in quantum dot

New technique brings quantum computing a step closer  ... more

2008-05-06 IBM Cooks Up Replacement For NAND, Hard Drives

IBM bets big on spintronics, new type of memory which it says will deliver terabyte MP3 players  ... more

2008-05-06 Prototype gravitational-wave detector uses squeezed light

Use of quantum enhancement is a first  ... more

2008-04-22 A quantum leap in computing power

Tommaso Calarco, from the University of Ulm, Institute for Quantum Information Processing, on the future of high speed computing.  ... more

2008-03-28 Quantum logic gate is miniaturized

Researchers in the UK convert single-photon controlled-NOT gate from lab-bench experiment to single-chip device  ... more

2008-03-28 Entangled photons could sharpen your view

Quantum illumination could see through noise  ... more

2008-03-17 Information May Leak from Black Holes at Dial-Up Speeds

Why a leaky black hole is more like a mirror ball from hell  ... more

2008-03-07 Pattern recognition on a quantum computer

Quantum computer may be capable of seeing the big picture  ... more

2008-03-07 Quantum logic clock

NIST ‘Quantum Logic Clock’ Rivals Mercury Ion as World’s Most Accurate Clock  ... more

2008-03-07 Entangled memory is a first  ... more

2008-02-11 Quantum Teleporting, Yes; the Rest Is Movie Magic

Science and art square off at MIT  ... more

2008-02-07 More on D-Wave

Geordie Rose President and CEO of D-Wave Systems Inc. in the MIT scientists' pit  ... more

2008-02-06 D-Wave bags $17m more in funding  ... more

2008-02-06 Quantum Teleportation and Memory in Tandem  ... more

2008-02-06 Quantum of Solace

James Bond goes 'Quantum'...?  ... more

2007-11-23 Berry’s phase seen in solid-state qubit

Breakthrough could lead to robust quantum computers  ... more

2007-11-09 Single spins controlled by an electric field

TU Delft breakthrough could simplify spintronics  ... more

2007-11-09 Two is a crowd for quantum particles

Double slit probes the limits of decoherence  ... more

2007-10-05 A faster way to better quantum computers

Decoherence is measured in a jiffy  ... more

2007-09-28 Microchip “bus” links up quantum bits

Two independent groups in the US have created “buses” for transferring information between two microchip-based qubits.  ... more

2007-09-21 Single-photon microwave source fits on a chip

Device brings quantum communication one step closer.  ... more

2007-09-14 Single-atom entanglement goes further

Physicists in the US have managed to entangle two individual atomic ions that are one metre apart.  ... more

2007-09-14 New optical microcavity could lead to more efficient quantum computing

Ed Hinds and his group at Imperial College, London, have produced an open and scalable microcavity  ... more

2007-09-07 Single-photon transistor plans unveiled

Physicists in the US and Denmark have unveiled plans for an all-optical transistor-like device that can be turned on by a single photon.  ... more

2007-08-24 Light collapses step-by-step

Physicists in France can watch as a mirror-lined box gradually “decides” how many photons it contains.  ... more

2007-06-28 Quantum leap in communications  ... more

2007-06-22 Single atom entangles two photons

Researchers in Germany and the UK are the first to entangle pairs of photons using a single atom.  ... more

2007-06-20 Demonstration of superconducting controlled-NOT

Researchers at TU Delft have succeeded in carrying out calculations with two quantum bits, the building blocks of a possible future quantum computer.  ... more

2007-06-01 Quantum well fires single electrons on demand

Physicists in France have taken an important step forward in building a quantum computer from entangled electrons.  ... more

2007-05-04 Entanglement dies a sudden death

A strange quantum phenomenon that could be a stumbling block to building quantum computers has been observed for the first time by physicists in Brazil.  ... more

2007-05-02 Quantum cryptography is hacked

Simulation proves it's possible to eavesdrop on super-secure encrypted messages.  ... more

2007-05-02 Optical lattices could give insight into QCD

Physicists in Germany and Hungary claim that ultracold atoms in an optical lattice could be used to simulate certain aspects of quantum chromodynamics (QCD)  ... more

2007-04-23 Quantum physics says goodbye to reality

Physicists from Austria claim to have performed an experiment that rules out a broad class of hidden-variables theories.  ... more

2007-04-16 Photosynthesis takes a leaf out of the quantum book

Quantum computers and blades of grass have more in common than you might think.  ... more

2007-03-21 Single-Photon Server Created From an Atom  ... more

2007-03-15 Physicists watch the 'birth, life and death of a photon'  ... more

2007-03-12 Quantum cryptography goes wireless

"It works!" (Prof. A. Zeilinger)  ... more

2007-02-21 Toshiba Plug Loophole in Security of Quantum Cryptography  ... more

2007-02-16 Scientists dubious of quantum computer claims  ... more

2007-02-14 World's First Commercial Quantum Computer Demonstrated

D-Wave Systems demonstrates in Silicon Valley first commercially aviable quantum computer  ... more

2007-02-13 Quantum Computer running today?

The Orion quantum computing system will be demoed at the Computer History Museum Mountain View, California on February 13th, and at the Telus World of Science in Vancouver, Canada on February 15th, rumors said...  ... more

2007-02-09 Bubbles compute in logical devices  ... more

2007-02-08 Storing light here -- and retrieving it there  ... more

2007-02-07 The SECOQC White Paper on QKD  ... more

2007-01-18 Can Neutrons be Used in Quantum Computers?  ... more

2007-01-18 Senetas and ID Quantique claim gigabit quantum encryption  ... more

2007-01-18 Photonic Schroedinger cat breaks record  ... more

2006-12-15 Quantum Cryptography, It's Some Kind of MagiQ  ... more

2006-12-11 United States patent for superconducting quantum device  ... more

2006-12-01 TU Delft shines light on atomic transistor

Researchers from TU Delft and the FOM Foundation have measured transport through a single atom in a transistor.  ... more

2006-11-29 Simulator for developing quantum computers

Imperial College scientists simulate the behaviour of atoms and particles  ... more

2006-11-22 A Quantum (Computer) Step  ... more

2006-11-17 Novel Atom Refining Boosts Entanglement of Atom Pairs  ... more

2006-11-13 Spin measured without destruction  ... more

2006-11-08 NIST demos quantum atom entanglement  ... more

2006-11-08 Quantum attacks worry computer scientists  ... more

2006-10-25 Fermion Superfluidity in an Optical Lattice  ... more

2006-10-20 Elements 116 and 118 discovered  ... more

2006-10-04 Scientists teleport two different objects

CNN reports on a breakthrough experiment by E. Polzik's group

Read this CNN featured article entitled Scientists teleport two different objects.
(Lukas Theussl, 2006-10-04 at 00:00:00)