Physicists at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany, have succeeded in entangling a single atom with a single photon in the telecom wavelength range. This constitutes a basic building block for transmission of quantum ...
Quantum Physics
May 22, 2018
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Stealth aircraft in the Canadian arctic will be no match for a new quantum radar system.
Engineering
Apr 23, 2018
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Due to the rapidly growing processing power of computers, conventional encryption of data is becoming increasingly insecure. One solution is coding with entangled photons. Fraunhofer researchers are developing a quantum coding ...
Engineering
Jun 21, 2017
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Andrei Nomerotski joined the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory to build a three-gigapixel camera for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), a massive instrument that will be installed in the ...
General Physics
Mar 29, 2017
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Members of the Faculty of Physics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University have elaborated a new technique for creating entangled photon states. They have described their research in an article published in the journal Physical ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 15, 2017
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By weaving some quantum wizardry, A*STAR researchers have achieved something that appears to be a contradiction in terms—using visible light to perform spectroscopy at infrared wavelengths. Even more mysterious is that ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 2, 2016
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You can't sign up for the quantum internet just yet, but researchers have reported a major experimental milestone towards building a global quantum network - and it's happening in space.
Quantum Physics
Jun 2, 2016
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Accurately probing the delicate relationship between linked, or 'entangled', photons—irrespective of the distance between them—is an important element of quantum cryptography, and perhaps even teleportation. Now, A*STAR ...
Quantum Physics
May 27, 2015
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In a recent study published in Physical Review Letters, the research group led by ICREA Prof at ICFO Morgan Mitchell has detected, for the first time, entanglement among individual photon pairs in a beam of squeezed light.
Quantum Physics
Mar 27, 2015
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If we are ever to fully harness the power of light for use in optical devices, it is necessary to understand photons - the fundamental unit of light. Achieving such understanding, however, is easier said than done. That's ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 24, 2015
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