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USPTO Awards Whitewood Patent for Secure Multi-Party Communication Compatible with Quantum Key Distribution

Whitewood Encryption Systems, Inc., a builder of next-generation systems of data encryption that leverage advanced cryptography technologies emerging from U.S. centers of research excellence, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued U.S. Patent No. 8,929,554, with claims covering methods and systems for secure multi-party communication that are compatible with various key distribution protocols, including quantum key distribution (QKD).

24 Mar 2015

Researchers Demonstrate Very High Speed Quantum Switch with Silicon

The team demonstrated a quantum on/off switching time of about a millionth of a millionth of a second - the fastest-ever quantum switch to be achieved with silicon and over a thousand times faster than previous attempts.

23 Mar 2015

High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory to Gather Highest-Energy Gamma Rays

High on a sleeping Mexican volcano, a new particle astrophysics observatory is about to blink to life, commencing an all-sky search for very high-energy gamma rays — a search that could greatly expand the catalog of known gamma ray sources and chip away at the mystery of the cosmic rays that constantly bombard our planet.

23 Mar 2015

Orbital Angular Momentum for Encoding Information Increases Possibility of High-Dimensional Quantum Key Distribution

Researchers at the University of Rochester and their collaborators have developed a way to transfer 2.05 bits per photon by using "twisted light." This remarkable achievement is possible because the researchers used the orbital angular momentum of the photons to encode information, rather than the more commonly used polarization of light.

23 Mar 2015

Self-Consistent Theory of Quantum Gravity Explains the Dark Sector

Ask any theoretical physicist on what are the most profound mysteries in physics and you will be surprised if she mentions anything other than Quantum Gravity and the Dark Sector.

23 Mar 2015

Astronomers Study Effects of Black Holes on Emergent Galaxies at JAXA’s New X-Ray Astronomy Observatory

University of Waterloo Professor Brian McNamara along with two Canadian astronomers will be part of the science working group directing ASTRO-H, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA's) newest flagship x-ray astronomy observatory.

23 Mar 2015

Construction Complete on 300th Detector Tank at High Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma-Ray Observatory

Supernovae, neutron star collisions and active galactic nuclei are among the most energetic phenomena in the known universe. These violent explosions produce high-energy gamma rays and cosmic rays, which can easily travel large distances--making it possible to see objects and events far outside our own galaxy.

23 Mar 2015

CQP Researchers Publish Paper on Active Temporal Multiplexing of Photons in arXiv

A paper co-authored by researchers including Gabriel Mendoza, Raffaele Santagati, Jack Munns, Lizzy Hemsley, Mateusz Piekarek, Enrique Martin-Lopez, Graham Marshall, Damien Bonneau, Mark Thompson and Jeremy O'Brien from the Centre for Quantum Photonics has been published in arXiv this month.

23 Mar 2015

New Fundamental Insights Help Hone Search for Room Temperature Superconductivity

The Canadian research community on high-temperature superconductivity continues to lead this exciting scientific field with groundbreaking results coming hot on the heels of big theoretical questions.

20 Mar 2015

Quantum Dots Help Sharpen Nanoscale Microscopy

The 2014 chemistry Nobel Prize recognized important microscopy research that enabled greatly improved spatial resolution. This innovation, resulting in nanometer resolution, was made possible by making the source (the emitter) of the illumination quite small and by moving it quite close to the object being imaged.

20 Mar 2015

Interstellar Dust Cloud Produced By Supernova Explosion Contains Enough Dust to Make 7,000 Earths

Using NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), an international scientific team discovered that supernovae are capable of producing a substantial amount of the material from which planets like Earth can form.

20 Mar 2015

Charge Ordering That Interferes with High-Temperature Superconductivity is Stripy, not Checkered

CIFAR fellows were among physicists who observed the shape of a strange phenomenon that interferes with high-temperature superconductivity called charge ordering, discovering that it is stripy, not checkered, and settling a long-standing debate in the field.

20 Mar 2015

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USPTO Awards Whitewood Patent for Secure Multi-Party Communication Compatible with Quantum Key Distribution

Researchers Demonstrate Very High Speed Quantum Switch with Silicon

High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory to Gather Highest-Energy Gamma Rays

Orbital Angular Momentum for Encoding Information Increases Possibility of High-Dimensional Quantum Key Distribution

Self-Consistent Theory of Quantum Gravity Explains the Dark Sector

Astronomers Study Effects of Black Holes on Emergent Galaxies at JAXA’s New X-Ray Astronomy Observatory

Construction Complete on 300th Detector Tank at High Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma-Ray Observatory

CQP Researchers Publish Paper on Active Temporal Multiplexing of Photons in arXiv

New Fundamental Insights Help Hone Search for Room Temperature Superconductivity

Quantum Dots Help Sharpen Nanoscale Microscopy

Interstellar Dust Cloud Produced By Supernova Explosion Contains Enough Dust to Make 7,000 Earths

Charge Ordering That Interferes with High-Temperature Superconductivity is Stripy, not Checkered

Braiding Pattern Inspires New Approach to Quantum Calculation in Quantum Computing

Astronomers Directly Observe Cosmic Building-Block Dust Resulting from Ancient Supernova

Researchers Demonstrate Fine Control Over Size-Dependent Band Gap of Graphene Oxide Dots

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

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