News tagged with qubits
Related topics: quantum computing , quantum information
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 ...
May 14, 2012 |
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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 ...
Feb 27, 2012 |
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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 ...
Apr 16, 2012 |
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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 ...
Jul 18, 2011 |
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Simplifying the process of detecting genuine multiparticle entanglement
(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to entangle particles is considered essential for a number of experiments and applications. While we have seen evidence for quantum entanglement, it is still difficult to detect ...
May 20, 2011 |
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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 ...
Jul 27, 2011 |
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Fast tunable coupler could lead to better quantum computing models
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the subjects of immense interest to scientists (and non-scientists as well) is the development of quantum computers. However, there are many challenges associated with quantum computing. One of the ...
Mar 02, 2011 |
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Physicists Solve Difficult Classical Problem with One Quantum Bit
(PhysOrg.com) -- Quantum information algorithms have the potential to solve some problems exponentially faster than current classical methods. However, most research on quantum information systems has concentrated ...
Jan 08, 2010 |
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Physicists Investigate Unusual Four-Qubit Entanglement
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, physicists have experimentally demonstrated a four-qubit bound-entangled state - a peculiar form of entanglement that cannot be distilled (optimized) by the usual means. ...
Sep 30, 2009 |
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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. ...
Apr 25, 2012 |
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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 ...
Aug 04, 2010 |
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Quantum non-demolition measurement allows physicists to count photons without destroying them
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a way, the quantum world seems to know when it's being watched. When physicists make measurements on photons and other quantum-scale particles, the measurements always disturb the system ...
Jul 09, 2010 |
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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.
Jul 20, 2011 |
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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 ...
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Physicists Demonstrate Quantum Memory with Matter Qubits
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, scientists have successfully operated a quantum gate between two remote particles of matter, marking an important step toward the development of a quantum computer. In ...
Jul 03, 2009 |
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