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Quantum Information Stored in Atom Transferred Onto Particle of Light

Not only do optical fibers transmit information every day around the world at the speed of light, but they can also be harnessed for the transport of quantum information. In the current issue of Nature Photonics, a research team of Innsbruck physicists led by Rainer Blatt and Tracy Northup report how they have directly transferred the quantum information stored in an atom onto a particle of light. Such information could then be sent over optical fiber to a distant atom.

4 Feb 2013

New Microwave Signal Harnessing Circuit May Find Use in Quantum Systems

EPFL scientists have succeeded in capturing a microwave pulse within a chip for several milliseconds before releasing it with little loss. This extraordinary delay normally requires hundreds of miles of electrical cable, as well as amplifiers

4 Feb 2013

MIT Team Overcomes Factors Limiting Quantum Dot Applications

Quantum dots — tiny particles that emit light in a dazzling array of glowing colors — have the potential for many applications, but have faced a series of hurdles to improved performance. But an MIT team says that it has succeeded in overcoming all these obstacles at once, while earlier efforts have only been able to tackle them one or a few at a time.

4 Feb 2013

International Research Team Hopes to Achieve Loophole-Free Test of Quantum Theory

An assistant professor of physics at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) will be among a team of international researchers looking to advance the theory of quantum mechanics, a notion challenged by Albert Einstein and pursued by many of the top scientific minds during the past century.

2 Feb 2013

Quantum Cognition and Quantum Biology to be Discussed at Science of Consciousness Conference

In Eastern philosophical traditions, consciousness is intrinsic to the universe, whereas in most Western views consciousness emerges from complex computation. Can these views be reconciled?

2 Feb 2013

Quantum Information Research Company, Raytheon BBN, Honored for Sustained Innovation

Raytheon BBN Technologies has been awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation for "sustained innovation through the engineering of first-of-a kind, practical systems in acoustics, signal processing, and information technology." President Barack Obama presented the medal in a White House ceremony Friday.

2 Feb 2013

Philanthropist Jeffrey Epstein Provides Funds for Research in Particle Physics

Well-known science philanthropist, Jeffrey Epstein, founder of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University, has provided essential funding to the famed Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. The funding comes at a time when four Institute physicists received the celebrated Fundamental Physics Prize for ground breaking research in particle physics.

2 Feb 2013

Active Vitamin D3 Delivered by Quantum Dots Fights Inflammatory Breast Cancer

The shortened daylight of a Maine winter may make for long, dark nights – but it has shone a light on a novel experimental approach to fighting inflammatory breast cancer (IBC), an especially deadly form of breast cancer.

2 Feb 2013

New Way to Measure Mass of Supermassive Black Holes

In a letter to Nature, an international team of astronomers, including Marc Sarzi from the University of Hertfordshire, report the exciting discovery of a new way to measure the mass of supermassive black holes in galaxies. By measuring the speed with which carbon monoxide molecules orbit around such black holes, this new research opens the possibility of making these measurements in many more galaxies than ever before.

1 Feb 2013

Cornell Researchers Capture Sharpest Mid-Infrared Images of Milky Way Ring

Cornell researchers have captured the sharpest mid-infrared images yet of a ring of gas and dust seven light-years wide orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

1 Feb 2013

Astronomers Accurately Measure Mass of Protoplanetary Disk

The disk surrounding the young star TW Hydrae is regarded as a prototypical example of planetary nurseries. Due to its comparatively close proximity of 176 light-years, the object plays a key role in cosmological birth models. Using the Herschel Space Telescope, researchers including Thomas Henning from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg have, for the first time, determined the mass of the disk very precisely.

1 Feb 2013

Experimentalists Confirm SmB6 is First True 3D Topological Insulator

An old material gets a new name, and with it, topological insulators have another chance to shine. Samarium hexaboride (SmB6) has been around since the late 1960s--but understanding its low temperature behavior has remained a mystery until recently. Experimentalists* have recently confirmed that this material is the first true 3D topological insulator—as originally predicted by JQI/CMTC☨ theorists in 2010.

1 Feb 2013

Hidden Hastatic Order Found in Quantum Electronic Material

Two Rutgers physics professors have proposed an explanation for a new type of order, or symmetry, in an exotic material made with uranium – a theory that may one day lead to enhanced computer displays and data storage systems and more powerful superconducting magnets for medical imaging and levitating high-speed trains.

31 Jan 2013

Princeton Quantum Field Theory Researcher Dies of Alzheimer's Disease

Renowned mathematical physicist and Princeton University Thomas D. Jones Professor Emeritus Arthur Wightman died of Alzheimer's disease Jan. 13 at Veterans Nursing Home in Edison, N.J. He was 90. He was best known for his pioneering and far-reaching research on the mathematical foundations of quantum field theory.

31 Jan 2013

Spintronic Chip Allows Information to Travel in Three Dimensions

Scientists from the University of Cambridge have created, for the first time, a new type of microchip which allows information to travel in three dimensions. Currently, microchips can only pass digital information in a very limited way – from either left to right or front to back. The research was published today, 31 January, in Nature.

31 Jan 2013

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Quantum Information Stored in Atom Transferred Onto Particle of Light

New Microwave Signal Harnessing Circuit May Find Use in Quantum Systems

MIT Team Overcomes Factors Limiting Quantum Dot Applications

International Research Team Hopes to Achieve Loophole-Free Test of Quantum Theory

Quantum Cognition and Quantum Biology to be Discussed at Science of Consciousness Conference

Quantum Information Research Company, Raytheon BBN, Honored for Sustained Innovation

Philanthropist Jeffrey Epstein Provides Funds for Research in Particle Physics

Active Vitamin D3 Delivered by Quantum Dots Fights Inflammatory Breast Cancer

New Way to Measure Mass of Supermassive Black Holes

Cornell Researchers Capture Sharpest Mid-Infrared Images of Milky Way Ring

Astronomers Accurately Measure Mass of Protoplanetary Disk

Experimentalists Confirm SmB6 is First True 3D Topological Insulator

Hidden Hastatic Order Found in Quantum Electronic Material

Princeton Quantum Field Theory Researcher Dies of Alzheimer's Disease

Spintronic Chip Allows Information to Travel in Three Dimensions

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