LANL researchers and collaborators have made the first demonstration of rapidly switching on and off "slow light" in specially designed metamaterials at room temperature. Metamaterials are assemblies of multiple individual ...
General Physics
Feb 12, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Two teams working independently have succeeded in entangling a single electron spin with a single photon in a solid-state platform. Both teams describe their process and results in papers they've had published ...
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(Phys.org)—Scientists from the University of Bristol's Centre for Quantum Photonics have developed a silicon chip that will pave the way to the mass-manufacture of miniature quantum chips. The announcement was made at the ...
Quantum Physics
Sep 4, 2012
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Theoretical physicist Filippo Miatto and colleagues from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, have found a new method of reliably assessing the information contained in photon pairs used for applications in cryptography ...
General Physics
Jul 12, 2012
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Physicists take a perverse pleasure in playing with the strangeness of the quantum world. That's how they have managed to entangle minuscule objects such as photons. After specific manipulations, they persuade two photons ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 5, 2012
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Are there parallel universes? And how will we know? This is one of many fascinations people hold about quantum physics. Researchers from the universities of Calgary and Waterloo in Canada and the University of Geneva in Switzerland ...
Quantum Physics
Dec 16, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Just when it began to appear that scientists had found a viable way around the problem of the blurring that occurs when using masks to create smaller and smaller silicon wafers for computer chips, a previous ...
An ultra-secure form of coded communication could be given a boost, thanks to scientists from the Universities of Glasgow, Strathclyde and Rochester.
Quantum Physics
Aug 6, 2010
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Physicists have finally managed to demonstrate quantum entanglement of spatially separated electrons in solid state circuitry.
Quantum Physics
Jan 11, 2010
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To exploit the quantum world to the fullest, a key commodity is entanglement—the spooky, distance-defying link that can form between objects such as atoms even when they are completely shielded from one another. Now, physicists ...
Quantum Physics
Nov 18, 2009
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