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Particle Control in a Quantum World

Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland have independently invented and developed methods for measuring and manipulating individual particles while preserving their quantum-mechanical nature, in ways that were previously tho...

9 Oct 2012

Scientists Explore Feasibility of Ultrathin-Film Photovoltaic Devices Using Quantum Dots

Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas are developing nanotechnology that could lead to a new platform for solar cells, one that could drive the development of lighter, flexible and more versatile solar-powered technology than is currently available.

9 Oct 2012

Researcher Receives Grant to Explore New Theory Based on Holography

A University of Southampton professor is the only UK recipient of a research grant to explore the laws of physics at the beginning of time.

6 Oct 2012

Researchers at Centre for Quantum Technologies Create and Probe Single Barium Ions

All the apparatus that fills the laboratory of the Microtraps group at the Centre for Quantum Technologies — three heavy metal optical benches densely packed with lasers, lenses, mirrors and above them shelves full of electronics — has been put into service to produce and probe single ions of Barium.

5 Oct 2012

Study Results Provide New Insights into Precision Quantum Measurement

Scientists who study the ultra-small world of atoms know it is impossible to make certain simultaneous measurements, for example finding out both the location and momentum of an electron, with an arbitrarily high level of precision. Because measurements disturb the system, increased certainty in the first measurement leads to increased uncertainty in the second.

5 Oct 2012

World’s First Commercial Quantum Computing Firm Closes $30 Million Round of Equity Funding

D-Wave Systems, Inc. today announced that it has closed a $30 million round of equity funding. Bezos Expeditions and In-Q-Tel (IQT) have joined the investment round. Bezos Expeditions is the personal investment company o...

5 Oct 2012

Researchers Find Value of Key Source Parameters to Generate High-Fidelity Single Photons

Many quantum technologies—such as cryptography, quantum computing and quantum networks—hinge on the use of single photons. While she was at the Kastler Brossel Laboratory (affiliated with the Pierre and Marie...

5 Oct 2012

New Quantum Cryptography Technique Holds Potential for Unconditional Security

Move over money, a new currency is helping make the world go round. As increasing volumes of data become accessible, transferable and, therefore, actionable, information is the treasure companies want to amass.

5 Oct 2012

Study Findings Provide Insights into Topological Quantum Computation

A research group at the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) investigated theoretically the charge-neutral Majorana fermions, and proposed a method for their manipulation.

5 Oct 2012

Cause and Effect Situations May Have Far-Reaching Implications in Quantum Mechanics

One of the most deeply rooted concepts in science and in our everyday life is causality; the idea that events in the present are caused by events in the past and, in turn, act as causes for what happens in the future. If an event A is a cause of an effect B, then B cannot be a cause of A.

4 Oct 2012

Researchers to Study Optical Materials and their Interactions with Light Quantum Scale

Through a new Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) awarded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, researchers from Brown University will lead an effort to study new optical materials and their interactions with light quantum scale. The initiative, titled Quantum Metaphotonics and Quantum Metamaterials, will receive $4.5 million over three years, with a possible two-year extension.

4 Oct 2012

Physicists Receive Grant to Explore Dark Matter Particles

The eight academics in the University’s particle physics group conduct experiments using the giant CMS and LHCb detectors, deep underground on the Swiss-French border.

4 Oct 2012

Capturing First Images of Landau Levels

Physicists have directly imaged Landau Levels – the quantum levels that determine electron behaviour in a strong magnetic field – for the first time since they were theoretically conceived of by Nobel prize winner Lev Landau in 1930.

3 Oct 2012

Optics and Photonics News Featured with CQT-led team’s Ideas

CQT Principal Investigator Alexander Ling and his collaborators have written a feature for the more than 30,000 readers of Optics and Photonics News (OPN), a monthly magazine distributed to members of the Optical Society of America.

3 Oct 2012

Researchers Propose Quantum Analogues of Classical Randomness Extractors for First Time

Stephanie Wehner from the Centre for Quantum Technologies together with Omar Fawzi from McGill University, Canada, and Mario Berta from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, have explored a new method to create randomness, hypothesizing quantum analogues of classical randomness extractors for the first time.

By Will Soutter 1 Oct 2012

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Particle Control in a Quantum World

Scientists Explore Feasibility of Ultrathin-Film Photovoltaic Devices Using Quantum Dots

Researcher Receives Grant to Explore New Theory Based on Holography

Researchers at Centre for Quantum Technologies Create and Probe Single Barium Ions

Study Results Provide New Insights into Precision Quantum Measurement

World’s First Commercial Quantum Computing Firm Closes $30 Million Round of Equity Funding

Researchers Find Value of Key Source Parameters to Generate High-Fidelity Single Photons

New Quantum Cryptography Technique Holds Potential for Unconditional Security

Study Findings Provide Insights into Topological Quantum Computation

Cause and Effect Situations May Have Far-Reaching Implications in Quantum Mechanics

Researchers to Study Optical Materials and their Interactions with Light Quantum Scale

Physicists Receive Grant to Explore Dark Matter Particles

Capturing First Images of Landau Levels

Optics and Photonics News Featured with CQT-led team’s Ideas

Researchers Propose Quantum Analogues of Classical Randomness Extractors for First Time

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