News tagged with quantum bit

European team bests Chinese record at teleporting distance (Corrected)

(Phys.org) -- A European team of physicists has bested the record set by a team of Chinese researchers last month for distance in teleporting quantum bits (qubits). Where the Chinese team accomplished their ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (15) | comments 34 | with audio podcast report

Quantum computing: The light at the end of the tunnel may be a single photon

Quantum physics promises faster and more powerful computers, but quantum versions of basic logic functions are still needed to bring this technology to fruition. Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Toshiba Research ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

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

Researchers demonstrate entanglement of two quantum bits inside of a semiconductor

(Phys.org) -- Research into quantum bits (qubits) for use in a quantum computer has become tied to entanglement, the still mysterious phenomenon whereby subatomic particles exist in an entangled state such that any change ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

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

How quantum physics could make 'The Matrix' more efficient

Researchers have discovered a new way in which computers based on quantum physics could beat the performance of classical computers. The work, by researchers based in Singapore and the UK, implies that a Matrix-like ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Highest honors for quantum computer pioneer

Experimental physicist Rainer Blatt from the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) in Innsbruck, Austria, will receive the Stern-Gerlach Medal of the German Physical Society. The medal ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

How the alphabet of data processing is growing: Research team generates flying 'qubits'

The alphabet of data processing could include more elements than the "0" and "1" in future. An international research team has achieved a new kind of bit with single electrons, called quantum bits, or qubits. ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Two molecules communicate via single photons

Scientists realize one of the most elementary and oldest "gedanken" experiments in modern physics, namely, excitation of a single molecule with a single photon. This paves the way for further investigations ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | 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

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

Researchers conduct experimental implementation of quantum algorithm

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at D-Wave Systems have carried out a calculation involving 84 qubits on an experimental quantum computer, giving some credence to the plausibility of true quantum computers being ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast weblog

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

Like fish on waves: electrons go surfing

Physicists at the RUB, working in collaboration with researchers from Grenoble and Tokyo, have succeeded in taking a decisive step towards the development of more powerful computers. They were able to define two little quantum ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Qubit

A quantum bit or qubit (pronounced /ˈkjuːbɪt/) is a unit of quantum information. It is the quantum analogue of the classical bit. It is described by a state vector in a two-level quantum-mechanical system, which is formally equivalent to a two-dimensional vector space over the complex numbers.

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