Researchers from the University of Bristol have discovered that super-powerful quantum computers, which scientists and engineers across the world are racing to build, need to be even more powerful than previously thought ...
Quantum Physics
Oct 3, 2017
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Light consists of a flow of photons. If two waveguides – cables for light – are side by side, they attract or repel each other. The interaction is due to the optical force, but the effect is usually extremely small. Physicists ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 2, 2017
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Have you ever wondered how you see the world? Vision is about photons of light, which are packets of energy, interacting with the atoms or molecules in what you're looking at. Some photons reflect off, reaching your eyes. ...
Quantum Physics
Dec 2, 2016
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The race towards quantum computing is heating up. Faster, brighter, more exacting – these are all terms that could be applied as much to the actual science as to the research effort going on in labs around the globe.
Optics & Photonics
Sep 30, 2016
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Physicists at the Australian National University (ANU) have brought quantum computing a step closer to reality by stopping light in a new experiment.
Quantum Physics
Sep 27, 2016
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Researchers from the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at the National University of Singapore and the University of Seville in Spain have reported the most extreme 'entanglement' between pairs of photons ever seen in ...
Quantum Physics
Nov 9, 2015
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There is tremendous potential for new information technology based on light (photons). Photons (light particles) are very well suited for carrying information and quantum technology based on photons—called quantum photonics, ...
Quantum Physics
Oct 23, 2015
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Quantum technology based on light (photons) has great potential for radically new information technology based on photonic circuits. Up to now, the photons in quantum photonic circuits have behaved in the same way whether ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 27, 2015
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The secret of X-ray science – like so much else – is in the timing.
General Physics
May 6, 2015
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Neither quantum computers nor quantum cryptography will become prevalent technologies without memory systems able to manipulate quantum information easily and effectively. The Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 26, 2014
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