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Physicists take steps toward delivering quantum information to the home

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today, fiber optics technology transports information in the form of classical data to homes and businesses. But researchers are currently working on ways to combine quantum data with the ...

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created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (50) | comments 4 | with audio podcast feature

Google Collaborates with D-Wave on Possible Quantum Image Search

(PhysOrg.com) -- Always on the cutting edge of new computing technologies, Google has recently announced that it is investigating the use of quantum computing schemes to achieve faster image recognition rates. ...

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created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (23) | comments 4 weblog

Sustained quantum information processing demonstrated

Raising prospects for building a practical quantum computer, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically ...

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created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 1




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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 ...

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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. ...

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created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Trade-off coding for quantum communication provides more benefits than previously thought

(Phys.org) -- In optical communication systems, the overall performance depends on the strategy used to transmit photons from one location to another. In previous attempts to optimize this performance, scientists ...

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created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

143 is largest number yet to be factored by a quantum algorithm

(Phys.org) -- While factoring an integer is a simple problem when the integer is small, the complexity of factorization greatly increases as the integer increases. When the integer grows to more than 100,000 ...

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created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 10 | with audio podcast feature

Quantum computer built inside a diamond

Diamonds are forever – or, at least, the effects of this diamond on quantum computing may be. A team that includes scientists from USC has built a quantum computer in a diamond, the first of its kind to include protection ...

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created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (28) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Third research team close to creating Majorana fermion

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently there has been a virtual explosion of research efforts aimed at creating the elusive Majorana fermion with different groups claiming to be near to creating them. First there was news that a team ...

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created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

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 ...

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created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (18) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Argon cleaning helps trapped ions chill out

(PhysOrg.com) -- The reliability of trapped-ion quantum information systems – a promising candidate technology for an eventual quantum computer – can be dramatically improved by giving the trap electrodes ...

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created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | 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 ...

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created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

New study may lead to MRIs on a nanoscale

(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) on the nanoscale and the ever-elusive quantum computer are among the advancements edging closer toward the realm of possibility, and a new study co-authored ...

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created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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