An international team of researchers led by The Australian National University (ANU) has invented a tiny camera lens, which may lead to a device that links quantum computers to an optical fibre network.
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Sep 13, 2018
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The team of Li Chengfeng, Zhou Zongquan and others from the CAS Key Lab of Quantum Information developed a multi-degree-of-freedom (DOF) multiplexed solid-state quantum memory, and demonstrated photon pulse operation functions ...
Quantum Physics
Aug 24, 2018
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A team of researchers at Aalto University in Finland has found a way to use nanowires to build all-optical logic gates—a major step toward building a light-based computer. In their paper published in the journal Science ...
Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have reached a new milestone on the way to optical computing, or the use of light instead of electricity for computing. They explored a new way to select and ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 17, 2018
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Scientists have shown how an optical chip can simulate the motion of atoms within molecules at the quantum level, which could lead to better ways of creating chemicals for use as pharmaceuticals.
Quantum Physics
May 30, 2018
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Researchers have studied how a 'drumstick' made of light could make a microscopic 'drum' vibrate and stand still at the same time.
Quantum Physics
May 18, 2018
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Since their invention, computers have become faster and faster, as a result of our ability to increase the number of transistors on a processor chip.
Optics & Photonics
Mar 20, 2018
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By forcing light to go through a smaller gap than ever before, researchers have paved the way for computers based on light instead of electronics.
Optics & Photonics
Nov 30, 2017
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It's not easy to bounce a single particle of light off a single atom that is less than a billionth of a metre wide. However, researchers at the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore have ...
Quantum Physics
Oct 31, 2017
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Large-scale quantum computers, which are an active pursuit of many university labs and tech giants, remain years away. But that hasn't stopped some scientists from thinking ahead, to a time when quantum computers might be ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 13, 2017
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