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Not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 clones!

Xi-Jun Ren and Yang Xiang from Henan Universities in China, in collaboration with Heng Fan at the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have produced a theory for a quantum cloning machine able to produce ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Better light measurement through quantum cloning

(PhysOrg.com) -- "One of the things we have been studying is how the world works on a really small scale," Bruno Sanguinetti, a scientist at the University of Geneva in Switzerland tells PhysOrg.com. "At the quantum level, ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 30, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature




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Quantum internet: Physicists build first elementary quantum network

(Phys.org) -- A team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics realizes a first elementary quantum network based on interfaces between single atoms and photons.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (22) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

DNA strands that select nanotubes are first step to a practical 'quantum wire'

DNA, a molecule famous for storing the genetic blueprints for all living things, can do other things as well. In a new paper, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) describe ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Hippie days: How a handful of countercultural scientists changed the course of physics in the 1970s

Every Friday afternoon for several years in the 1970s, a group of underemployed quantum physicists met at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, in Northern California, to talk about a subject so peculiar it was rarely ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Quantum no-hiding theorem experimentally confirmed for first time

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the classical world, information can be copied and deleted at will. In the quantum world, however, the conservation of quantum information means that information cannot be created nor destroyed. ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 16 | with audio podcast feature

Doctoral candidate publishes on graphene's potential

Since graphene was first isolated in 2004 with the help of Scotch tape, researchers have excitedly turned to the material to discover its potential applications. A single layer of carbon atoms whose applications range from ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 18, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

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 ...

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

Engineers devise new method for securing location-sensitive data by using quantum mechanics

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research group led by computer scientists at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has proved that cryptography -- the practice and study of hiding information -- that is based ...

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created Jul 26, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Field experiment on a robust hierarchical metropolitan quantum cryptography network

Key Laboratory of Quantum Information (CAS), University of Science and Technology of China has recently demonstrated a metropolitan Quantum Cryptography Network (QCN) for Government Administration in Wuhu, China. The project ...

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created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Physicists Explain How Human Eyes Can Detect Quantum Effects

(PhysOrg.com) -- By greatly amplifying one photon from an entangled photon pair, physicists have theoretically shown that human eyes can be used as detectors to observe quantum effects. Usually, detecting ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (48) | comments 19 feature

Team shows how evolution can allow for large developmental leaps

How evolution acts to bridge the chasm between two discrete physiological states is a question that's long puzzled scientists. Most evolutionary changes, after all, happen in tiny increments: an elephant grows a little larger, ...

Biology / Evolution

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1


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