News tagged with quantum circuits

Digital Quantum Battery Could Boost Energy Density Tenfold

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists theorize that quantum phenomena could provide a major boost to batteries, with the potential to increase energy density up to 10 times that of lithium ion batteries. According to ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (55) | comments 17 weblog

First-ever calculation performed on optical quantum computer chip

(PhysOrg.com) -- A primitive quantum computer that uses single particles of light (photons) whizzing through a silicon chip has performed its first mathematical calculation. This is the first time a calculation ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (36) | comments 10

Physicists make discovery in quantum mechanics

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have made an important advance in quantum mechanics using a superconducting electrical circuit. The finding is reported in this week's issue of the journal Nature.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (31) | comments 49

Researchers find possible evidence of Majorana fermions

(Phys.org) -- Researchers working out of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have constructed a device that appears to offer some evidence of the existence of Majorana fermions; the elusive particles ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Wizard at circuits, physics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Donhee Ham, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, uses his personal energy and understanding of physics to design innovative integrated circuits.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (24) | comments 0

European researchers make breakthrough in developing super-material graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- A collaborative research project has brought the world a step closer to producing a new material on which future nanotechnology could be based. Researchers across Europe, including the UK's ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (23) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Physicists build highly efficient 'no-waste' laser

A team of University of California, San Diego researchers has built the smallest room-temperature nanolaser to date, as well as an even more startling device: a highly efficient, "thresholdless" laser that ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (23) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Cold atoms make microwave fields visible

Using clouds of ultracold atoms, a scientific team at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Germany) have made microwave fields visible.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 03, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Basic quantum computing circuit built

(PhysOrg.com) -- Exerting delicate control over a pair of atoms within a mere seven-millionths-of-a-second window of opportunity, physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison created an atomic circuit that may help quantum ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists say it's high 'NOON' for microwave photons

An important milestone toward the realization of a large-scale quantum computer, and further demonstration of a new level of the quantum control of light, were accomplished by a team of scientists at UC Santa ...

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created Feb 15, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (19) | comments 20 | with audio podcast

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 demonstrate the quantum von Neumann architecture

A new paradigm in quantum information processing has been demonstrated by physicists at UC Santa Barbara. Their results are published in this week's issue of Science Express online.

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created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Scientists report first monolithic terahertz solid-state transceiver

Sandia National Laboratories researchers have taken the first steps toward reducing the size and enhancing the functionality of devices in the terahertz (THz) frequency spectrum.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 29, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Self-correcting' gates advance quantum computing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth researchers have found a way to develop more robust “quantum gates,” which are the elementary building blocks of quantum circuits. Quantum circuits, someday, will be used to ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (15) | comments 4

Two stopped light pulses interact with each other

(Phys.org) -- For the first time, physicists have experimentally demonstrated the interaction of two motionless light pulses. Because the stopped light pulses have a long interaction time, it increases the ...

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created May 08, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (16) | comments 8 | with audio podcast feature