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Keeping it together: Protecting entanglement from decoherence and sudden death

(PhysOrg.com) -- Decoherence can be metaphorically seen as a quantum fall from grace: When quantum bits, or qubits, are in superposition – such as a single qubit simultaneously having both 1 and 0 values ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

Patterned media technique achieves Terabit data recording densities

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to increase the recording densities of hard disk drives, patterned media has become one of the most promising strategies for achieving recording densities beyond 1 Tbit/in2. In pattern ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (23) | comments 9 | with audio podcast feature

Scientists view a quantum jump in real time

(PhysOrg.com) -- For more than two decades, scientists have been "watching" electrons in atoms make the jump between energy levels in real time. "Atoms have energy levels, and when electrons 'jump' from one level to another, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 11, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (29) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

Fast tunable coupler could lead to better quantum computing models

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the subjects of immense interest to scientists (and non-scientists as well) is the development of quantum computers. However, there are many challenges associated with quantum computing. One of the ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

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

Physicists Solve Difficult Classical Problem with One Quantum Bit

(PhysOrg.com) -- Quantum information algorithms have the potential to solve some problems exponentially faster than current classical methods. However, most research on quantum information systems has concentrated ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 08, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (36) | comments 4 | with audio podcast feature

Physicists Propose New Ultracold Scheme for Scalable Quantum Information Processing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since 1994, when Peter Shor famously showed that a quantum computer could factor large numbers exponentially faster than any current classical algorithm, physicists have been investigating ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 1 feature

Physicists benchmark quantum simulator with hundreds of qubits

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have built a quantum simulator that can engineer interactions among hundreds of quantum bits (qubits) -- 10 times more than previous devices. ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Long predicted but never observed: A new kind of quantum junction

A new type of quantum bit called a "phase-slip qubit", devised by researchers at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute and their collaborators, has enabled the world's first-ever experimental demonstration ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Quantum control protocols could lead to more accurate, larger scale quantum computations

A protocol for controlling quantum information pioneered by researchers at UC Santa Barbara, the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience in Delft, the Netherlands, and the Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University could ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Honeycombs of magnets could lead to new type of computer processing

Scientists have taken an important step forward in developing a new material using nano-sized magnets that could ultimately lead to new types of electronic devices, with greater capacity than is currently ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

IBM research advances device performance for quantum computing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at IBM Research have achieved major advances in quantum computing device performance that may accelerate the realization of a practical, full-scale quantum computer. For specific ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (18) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Physicists move one step closer to quantum computer

Rice University physicists have created a tiny "electron superhighway" that could one day be useful for building a quantum computer, a new type of computer that will use quantum particles in place of the digital ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

NIST achieves record-low error rate for quantum information processing with one qubit

(PhysOrg.com) -- Thanks to advances in experimental design, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have achieved a record-low probability of error in quantum information processing ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Breakthrough in quantum computing: Resisting 'quantum bug'

Scientists have taken the next major step toward quantum computing, which will use quantum mechanics to revolutionize the way information is processed.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (23) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Long live the qubit!

A quantum computer is a device -- still largely theoretical -- that could perform some types of calculations much more rapidly than classical computers. While a bit in a classical computer can represent either ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast