News tagged with beam splitter

Prototype 'optics table on a chip' places microwave photon in two colors at once

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a tunable superconducting circuit on a chip that can place a single microwave photon (particle of light) ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New experiment would use quantum effects to perform otherwise intractable calculations

(PhysOrg.com) -- Quantum computers are computers that exploit the weird properties of matter at extremely small scales. Many experts believe that a full-blown quantum computer could perform calculations that ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 02, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Physicists Demonstrate Quantum Memory with Matter Qubits

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, scientists have successfully operated a quantum gate between two remote particles of matter, marking an important step toward the development of a quantum computer. In ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (21) | comments 2 feature