Quantum Optics News

RSS

DOE Grant to Qubitekk to Accelerate Development of Unhackable Quantum Encryption Technology

San Diego startup Qubitekk will benefit from a $3M Department of Energy grant to speed the development of unhackable quantum encryption technology that will protect the country's power grid from cyber attack.

27 Aug 2014

Understanding of Quantum Laws Reaffirmed

Decades of experiments have verified the quirky laws of quantum theory again and again. So when scientists in Germany announced in 2012 an apparent violation of a fundamental law of quantum mechanics, a physicist at the University of Rochester was determined to find an explanation.

27 Aug 2014

New Study Reveals the Classic Signature of a Galaxy Merger

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), and many other telescopes on the ground and in space, an international team of astronomers has obtained the best view yet of a collision that took place between two galaxies when the Universe was only half its current age.

27 Aug 2014

Fermilab’s Holometer Experiment Explores Whether the Universe is a 2-D Hologram

A unique experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory called the Holometer has started collecting data that will answer some mind-bending questions about our universe – including whether we live in a hologram.

27 Aug 2014

Quantum Cascade Laser Device for Diabetics to Check Blood Sugar

Princeton University researchers have developed a way to use a laser to measure people's blood sugar, and, with more work to shrink the laser system to a portable size, the technique could allow diabetics to check their condition without pricking themselves to draw blood.

21 Aug 2014

Scientists Can Now Follow Quantum Systems into Quantum Territory

Groundskeepers and landscapers hate them, but there is no fighting them. Called desire paths, social trails or goat tracks, they are the unofficial shortcuts people create between two locations when the purpose-built path doesn’t take them where they want to go.

1 Aug 2014