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Laboratory Simulation of Deep Earthquakes Using Synchrotron X-Rays

More than 20 years ago, geologist Harry Green, now a distinguished professor of the graduate division at the University of California, Riverside, and colleagues discovered a high-pressure failure mechanism that they proposed then was the long-sought mechanism of very deep earthquakes (earthquakes occurring at more than 400 km depth).

20 Sep 2013

Supercomputers Used to Map Nuclear Phase Diagram

To get a better understanding of the subatomic soup that filled the early universe, and how it “froze out” to form the atoms of today’s world, scientists are taking a closer look at the nuclear phase diagram. Like a map that describes how the physical state of water morphs from solid ice to liquid to steam with changes in temperature and pressure, the nuclear phase diagram maps out different phases of the components of atomic nuclei—from the free quarks and gluons that existed at the dawn of time to the clusters of protons and neutrons that make up the cores of atoms today.

19 Sep 2013

Scientists Progress Towards Cavity-Based Interface With an Ion-Trap Quantum Computer

A team of scientists in Innsbruck, Austria, made an important step toward distributed quantum computing with cavities linking remote atom-based registers. They demonstrated precise control of the coupling of each of two trapped ions to the mode of an optical resonator.

17 Sep 2013

Quantum Technologies will Offer Ultra-Secure Communications, Precise Sensors and More Powerful Computers

The ability to design and create new materials and pharmaceuticals at a fraction of today’s costs is just one of the possibilities that were described by Professor Jeremy O’Brien at the World Economic Forum meeting of the New Champions 2013 held in Dalian, China.

17 Sep 2013

FQXi Awards Grant for Research on Structure of Quantum Information with Neutron Interferometry

The Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) awards grants to “catalyze, support, and disseminate research on questions at the foundations of physics and cosmology”. The grant awarded to Emerson and his collaborators was one of 37 applications selected for funding this year from a total of 211 initial applications that were submitted by institutions, universities, colleges, laboratories, think tanks and businesses from around the world.

6 Sep 2013

University of Southampton to Launch UK’s Largest Photonics and Electronics Institute

The University of Southampton is launching the largest photonics and electronics institute in the UK on Thursday 12 September.

5 Sep 2013

New QKD System Overcomes Achilles’ Heel of Quantum-Based Secure Communication Systems

University of Calgary scientists have overcome an “Achilles’ heel” of quantum-based secure communication systems, using a new approach that works in the real world to safeguard secrets.

5 Sep 2013

EPFL Research Ranges from Quantum Photonics to Solar Panels

Photonics, the study of light in the broadest sense of the term, plays a major role at EPFL. Almost 30 labs focus on different aspects of photonics, like the design of lasers, construction of high-performance solar cells and development of tomorrow's telecommunications.

29 Aug 2013

New Way to Count Photons

The photodetectors in Alan Migdall’s lab often see no light at all, and that’s a good thing since he and his JQI colleagues perform physics experiments that require very little light, the better to study subtle quantum effects.

17 Aug 2013

Photonic Qubits Teleported With Extreme Reliability

By means of the quantum-mechanical entanglement of spatially separated light fields, researchers in Tokyo and Mainz have managed to teleport photonic qubits with extreme reliability. This means that a decisive breakthrough has been achieved some 15 years after the first experiments in the field of optical teleportation.

16 Aug 2013

Quantum Optics News

Laboratory Simulation of Deep Earthquakes Using Synchrotron X-Rays

Supercomputers Used to Map Nuclear Phase Diagram

Scientists Progress Towards Cavity-Based Interface With an Ion-Trap Quantum Computer

Quantum Technologies will Offer Ultra-Secure Communications, Precise Sensors and More Powerful Computers

FQXi Awards Grant for Research on Structure of Quantum Information with Neutron Interferometry

University of Southampton to Launch UK’s Largest Photonics and Electronics Institute

New QKD System Overcomes Achilles’ Heel of Quantum-Based Secure Communication Systems

EPFL Research Ranges from Quantum Photonics to Solar Panels

New Way to Count Photons

Photonic Qubits Teleported With Extreme Reliability

Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

SideKick QCL Controller: Low-Noise Laser Control Solution

LabOne Q: An Intuitive Software Framework for Scalable Quantum Computing

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Repeat-Until-Success Algorithm for Quantum Gate Decomposition

Researchers Exploit the Color Centers in Diamond to Enhance Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Processes for NMR Applications

Application of Electro-Optic Phase Modulator in Pound-Drever Hall Technique for Laser Frequency Stabilization

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Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

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3Breakthrough in Quantum Computing with On-Chip Microwave Generator

4Muon Colliders Offer Compact Solution for High-Energy Physics

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