Researchers have shown that entangled photons can be used to improve the penetration depth of optical coherence tomography (OCT) in highly scattering materials. The method represents a way to perform OCT with mid-infrared ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 10, 2020
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Australia has made substantial investments in the development of quantum technologies.
Quantum Physics
Dec 10, 2020
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Is gravity a quantum phenomenon? That has been one of the big outstanding questions in physics for decades. Together with colleagues from the UK, Anupam Mazumdar, a physicist from the University of Groningen, proposed an ...
Quantum Physics
Dec 8, 2020
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Borrowing a page from high-energy physics and astronomy textbooks, a team of physicists and computer scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has successfully adapted ...
Quantum Physics
Nov 5, 2020
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Researchers at UNSW Sydney have demonstrated the lowest noise level on record for a semiconductor quantum bit, or qubit. The research was published in Advanced Materials.
Quantum Physics
Oct 8, 2020
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A new hollow optical fiber greatly reduces the "noise" interfering with the signals it transmits compared to the single-mode fibers now widely used, researchers at the University of Rochester report.
Optics & Photonics
Sep 18, 2020
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If we can harness it, quantum technology promises fantastic new possibilities. But first, scientists need to coax quantum systems to stay yoked for longer than a few millionths of a second.
General Physics
Aug 13, 2020
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Quantum systems are notoriously prone to errors and noise. In order to overcome this and build a functional quantum computer, physicists should ideally understand the noise across an entire system. That has been out of reach ...
Quantum Physics
Aug 10, 2020
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Army researchers developed a new way to protect and safeguard quantum information, moving quantum networks a step closer to reality.
Quantum Physics
Jul 8, 2020
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Physicists at MIT have designed a quantum "light squeezer" that reduces quantum noise in an incoming laser beam by 15 percent. It is the first system of its kind to work at room temperature, making it amenable to a compact, ...
Optics & Photonics
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