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Researchers at the University of Rochester Develop Quantum Enigma Machine

University of Rochester researchers have for the very first time demonstrated the possibility of sending an unbreakable encrypted message with a key that is extremely shorter than the message.

7 Sep 2016

Photon-Electron Interactions Could Aid studies Related to Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics, Condensed Matter Physics

Where light and matter intersect, the world illuminates. Where light and matter interact so strongly that they become one, they illuminate a world of new physics, according to Rice University scientists.

23 Aug 2016

NSF Awards $12 Million to Develop Quantum Systems for Better Cybersecurity

To advance the technology necessary for secure communication, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $12 million to develop systems that use photons in pre-determined quantum states as a way to encrypt data.

10 Aug 2016

MIT Researchers Discover Important Step Toward Practical Quantum Computers

Quantum computers are principally hypothetical devices capable of performing certain calculations much faster than any existing traditional computers.

9 Aug 2016

Diamond-Based Light Sources Could Lead to Technological Breakthrough in Quantum Communications

Dmitry Fedyanin from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Mario Agio from the University of Siegen and LENS have predicted that artificial defects in the crystal lattice of diamond can be turned into ultrabright and extremely efficient electrically-driven quantum emitters.

8 Aug 2016

Scientists Design High-Precision Quantum Logic Gate to Build Quantum Computer

Researchers at the University of Oxford have achieved a quantum logic gate with record-breaking 99.9% precision, reaching the benchmark required theoretically to build a quantum computer.

8 Aug 2016

USC Researchers Discover Method to Reduce Heating in Quantum Computers

Quantum computing remains mysterious and elusive to many, but USC Viterbi School of Engineering researchers might have taken us one step closer to bring such super-powered devices to practical reality.

8 Aug 2016

Classical Model Could Describe Strong Coupling Phenomenon Between Quantum, Classical Worlds

In the quantum world, physicists study the tiny particles that make up our classical world – neutrons, electrons, photons – either one at a time or in small numbers because the behaviour of the particles is completely different on such a small scale.

3 Aug 2016

Physicists Develop New Method to Create Universal Quantum Computer with Multilevel Qudits

Physicists from MIPT and the Russian Quantum Center have developed a method which is going to make it easier to create a universal quantum computer – they have discovered a way of using multilevel quantum systems (qudits), each one of which is able to work with multiple “conventional” quantum elements – qubits.

25 Jul 2016

New Self-Guided Quantum Tomography Provides Robustness Against Inevitable System Noise

A breakthrough into the full characterisation of quantum states has been published today as a prestigious Editors' Suggestion in the journal Physical Review Letters.

22 Jul 2016