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Reducing noise in quantum operation at room temperature

(PhysOrg.com) -- "A quantum memory is a crucial component of future quantum information processing technologies. Among these technologies, a quantum communications system based on light will enable vastly improved performance ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

Using quantum methods to read classical memories offers surprising advantages

(PhysOrg.com) -- Currently, the data stored in classical digital memories such as CDs, DVDs, and barcodes is read by classical light. But as a new study shows, using quantum light to read these classical memories ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (31) | comments 5 | 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

Physicists demonstrate 100-fold speed increase in optical quantum memory

(PhysOrg.com) -- As with today's computers, future quantum computers will require more than just quantum information processing; they will also require methods to store and retrieve the quantum information. ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 01, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (31) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Single photon solid-state memory for telecommunications

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the issues associated with quantum information schemes revolves around the ability to develop quantum memories that allow for the retrieval of information on demand. Overcoming this ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 08, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 5 | with audio podcast feature

Proposed Quantum Computer Consists of Billions of Electron Spins

(PhysOrg.com) -- While researchers have already demonstrated the building blocks for few-bit quantum computers, scaling these systems up to large quantum computers remains a challenge. One of the biggest problems ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 23 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

Computer memory takes a spin: Physicists read data after storing them in atomic nuclei for 112 seconds

University of Utah physicists stored information for 112 seconds in what may become the world's tiniest computer memory: magnetic "spins" in the centers or nuclei of atoms. Then the physicists retrieved and ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 16, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 9 | 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

Researchers convert quantum signals to telecom wavelengths, increase memory times

Using optically dense, ultra-cold clouds of rubidium atoms, researchers have made advances in three key elements needed for quantum information systems - including a technique for converting photons carrying ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 26, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

World first for quantum memory storage

(PhysOrg.com) -- An Australian National University-led team has developed the most efficient quantum memory for light in the world, taking us closer to a future of super-fast computers and communication secured ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 24, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

HP Labs find memristors can compute (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at HP Labs, the central research arm of HP, have discovered that a resistor with memory, a “memristor” can also perform logic operations. This means chips storing data may also ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 09, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (45) | comments 13 | with audio podcast report

Researchers simplify fabrication of nano storage, chip-design tools

Advances by the Rice University lab of James Tour have brought graphite's potential as a mass data storage medium a step closer to reality and created the potential for reprogrammable gate arrays that could ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Research group creates longer lived and more efficient quantum memory

(Phys.org) -- One of the main sticking points to creating a true quantum computer capable of performing meaningful work, is the problem of storing quantum state information in memory. Recent efforts have resulted in highly ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Researchers demonstrate new way to control nonvolatile magnetic memory devices

(Phys.org) -- Cornell researchers have demonstrated a new strategy for making energy- efficient, reliable nonvolatile magnetic memory devices -- which retain information without electric power.

Physics / General Physics

created May 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast