Hacker attacks on everything from social media accounts to government files could be largely prevented by the advent of quantum communication, which would use particles of light called "photons" to secure information rather ...
Nanophysics
Oct 16, 2018
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An accurate analog clock tick-tick-ticks with a constant precision and well known frequency: one tick per second. The longer you let it tick, the better to test its accuracy —10 times as long corresponds to a ten-fold improvement ...
Quantum Physics
Nov 2, 2017
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Engineers at Australia's University of New South Wales have invented a radical new architecture for quantum computing, based on novel 'flip-flop qubits', that promises to make the large-scale manufacture of quantum chips ...
Quantum Physics
Sep 6, 2017
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Yale University scientists have reached a milestone in their efforts to extend the durability and dependability of quantum information.
Quantum Physics
Jul 20, 2016
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892
What are the prime factors, or multipliers, for the number 15? Most grade school students know the answer—3 and 5—by memory. A larger number, such as 91, may take some pen and paper. An even larger number, say with 232 ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 3, 2016
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A team of Australian engineers has proven—with the highest score ever obtained—that a quantum version of computer code can be written, and manipulated, using two quantum bits in a silicon microchip. The advance removes ...
Quantum Physics
Nov 16, 2015
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Australian scientists have designed a 3D silicon chip architecture based on single atom quantum bits, which is compatible with atomic-scale fabrication techniques - providing a blueprint to build a large-scale quantum computer.
Quantum Physics
Oct 30, 2015
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The significant advance, by a team at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney appears today in the international journal Nature.
Quantum Physics
Oct 5, 2015
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Quantum computers are in theory capable of simulating the interactions of molecules at a level of detail far beyond the capabilities of even the largest supercomputers today. Such simulations could revolutionize chemistry, ...
Quantum Physics
May 5, 2015
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The core circuits of quantum teleportation, which generate and detect quantum entanglement, have been successfully integrated into a photonic chip by an international team of scientists from the universities of Bristol, Tokyo, ...
Quantum Physics
Apr 1, 2015
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