News tagged with entangled state

The quantum world writ large: Using short optical pulses to study macroscopic quantum behavior

(PhysOrg.com) -- Einstein infamously dismissed quantum entanglement as spooky action at a distance and quantum uncertainty with his quip that God does not play dice with the universe. Aside from revealing his ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 9 | with audio podcast feature

Simplifying the process of detecting genuine multiparticle entanglement

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to entangle particles is considered essential for a number of experiments and applications. While we have seen evidence for quantum entanglement, it is still difficult to detect ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 20, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (20) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

Autonomous quantum error correction technique proposed for quantum memories

(PhysOrg.com) -- While words such as "powerful" and "efficient" are often used to describe the potential of quantum computing, these quantum systems can be very fragile at the same time. Errors in quantum ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 04, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

Could some entangled states be useless for quantum cryptography?

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the widely accepted properties of quantum entanglement is secrecy. Since scientists and researchers began working with quantum key distribution, entanglement has been considered an essential part of ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 05, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (12) | comments 8 | with audio podcast feature

Physicists set guidelines for qubit candidates

(PhysOrg.com) -- To build a quantum computer, it's essential to be able to quickly and efficiently manipulate the quantum states of qubits. The qubits, which are the basic unit of quantum information, can be composed of many ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 04, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 2 feature

Creating a six-qubit cluster state

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many scientists believe that quantum entanglement is required in order for effective quantum computing. Entanglement takes place when there is a connection that exists between two objects - even when they ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 2 feature

Physicists Investigate Unusual Four-Qubit Entanglement

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, physicists have experimentally demonstrated a four-qubit bound-entangled state - a peculiar form of entanglement that cannot be distilled (optimized) by the usual means. ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (20) | comments 5 feature

Scientists Extend the Lifetime of Quantum Memory

(PhysOrg.com) -- Storing and sending information using quantum phenomena is one of the hottest areas of research today; scientists across the globe are investigating how to make quantum communication possible for real-life ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 12 feature

Quantum physicists shed new light on relation between entanglement and nonlocality

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from the University of Bristol may disprove a long-standing conjecture made by one of the founders of quantum information science: that quantum states featuring ‘positive partial transpose’, ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 35 | with audio podcast

Physicists demonstrate a four-fold quantum memory

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have demonstrated quantum entanglement for a quantum state stored in four spatially distinct atomic memories.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 17, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (20) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Three tiny qubits, another big step toward quantum computing

(PhysOrg.com) -- The rules that govern the world of the very small, quantum mechanics, are known for being bizarre. One of the strangest tenets is something called quantum entanglement, in which two or more objects (such ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 29, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (15) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Physicists investigate electron fractionalization into not two, but three components

One of the many intriguing puzzles in physics is the strange behavior of the electron as it fractionalizes into two separate quasiparticles. These quasiparticles, called spinons and chargons (or holons), carry the electron’s ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 12, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (45) | comments 11 | with audio podcast feature

Manipulating light on a chip for quantum technologies

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists and engineers at Bristol University has demonstrated exquisite control of single particles of light — photons — on a silicon chip to make a major advance towards long-sought-after ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 0

Physicists detect entanglement of one photon shared among four locations

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed an efficient method to detect entanglement shared among multiple parts of an optical system. They show how entanglement, in the form of beams of ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 08, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Quantum cat's 'whiskers' offer advanced sensors

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by Oxford University scientists has turned one of the key problems with quantum entangled systems - that they are easily ‘disturbed’ by their environment - into an advantage which ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 11