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Chinese group breaks distance record for teleporting qubits

(Phys.org) -- A team of Chinese physicists has broken the distance record for teleporting qubits, extending it from 16 to 97 kilometers. They did so, as they explain in their paper uploaded to the preprint ...

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created May 14, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 38 | with audio podcast report

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

Researchers demonstrate entanglement of two quantum bits inside of a semiconductor

(Phys.org) -- Research into quantum bits (qubits) for use in a quantum computer has become tied to entanglement, the still mysterious phenomenon whereby subatomic particles exist in an entangled state such that any change ...

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created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Quantum control protocols could lead to more accurate, larger scale quantum computations

A protocol for controlling quantum information pioneered by researchers at UC Santa Barbara, the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience in Delft, the Netherlands, and the Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University could ...

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created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Quantum information motion control is now improved

Physicists have recently devised a new method for handling the effect of the interplay between vibrations and electrons on electronic transport. Their paper is about to be published in the European Physical Journal B. This s ...

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created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How the alphabet of data processing is growing: Research team generates flying 'qubits'

The alphabet of data processing could include more elements than the "0" and "1" in future. An international research team has achieved a new kind of bit with single electrons, called quantum bits, or qubits. ...

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created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | 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

Researchers conduct experimental implementation of quantum algorithm

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at D-Wave Systems have carried out a calculation involving 84 qubits on an experimental quantum computer, giving some credence to the plausibility of true quantum computers being ...

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created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast weblog

Progress in quantum computing, qubit by qubit

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers and physicists at Harvard have managed to capture light in tiny diamond pillars embedded in silver, releasing a stream of single photons at a controllable rate.

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created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Physicists move one step closer to quantum computer

Rice University physicists have created a tiny "electron superhighway" that could one day be useful for building a quantum computer, a new type of computer that will use quantum particles in place of the digital ...

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created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

Large scale qubit generation for quantum computing

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Many people are trying to build a quantum computer," Olivier Pfister tells PhysOrg.com. "One to the problems, though, is that you need hundreds of thousands of qubits. So far, scalability has been someth ...

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created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Breakthrough in quantum computing: Resisting 'quantum bug'

Scientists have taken the next major step toward quantum computing, which will use quantum mechanics to revolutionize the way information is processed.

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created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (23) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

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

Optical circuit enables new approach to quantum technologies

Professor Jeremy O'Brien, Director of the University of Bristol's Centre for Quantum Photonics, and his Japanese colleagues have demonstrated a quantum logic gate acting on four particles of light -- photons. The researchers ...

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created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast