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:: 09 November, 2009
Cooling strontium could lead to increasingly precise clocks, quantum computers and ultracold chemistry.
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:: 16 October, 2009
Since the early days of quantum physics in the 1920s and 30s, it has been suggested time and again that electric “continuous currents” flow in tiny...

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:: 16 October, 2009
Key Laboratory of Quantum Information (CAS), University of Science and Technology of China has recently demonstrated a metropolitan Quantum...

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:: 10 October, 2009
In recent years, quantum computers have lost some of their luster. In the early 1990s, it seemed that they might be able to solve a class of...

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:: 29 September, 2009
University of Michigan physicists have created the first atomic-scale maps of quantum dots, a major step toward the goal of producing "designer...

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:: 07 September, 2009
When you toss a coin, you either get heads or tails. By contrast, things are not so definite at the microcosmic level. An atomic 'coin' can display...

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:: 07 September, 2009
The University of Bristol today (Monday 7 September, 2009) opens its Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information. This highly distinctive, £11...

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:: 05 September, 2009
A primitive quantum computer that uses single particles of light (photons) whizzing through a silicon chip has performed its first mathematical...

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:: 14 August, 2009
Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have devised a new type of superconducting circuit that behaves quantum mechanically –– but has up to five levels of...

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:: 12 August, 2009
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on...

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:: 07 July, 2009
ETH Zurich researchers have successfully created an optical transistor from a single molecule. This has brought them one step closer to an optical...

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:: 30 June, 2009
A team led by Yale University researchers has created the first rudimentary solid-state quantum processor, taking another step toward the ultimate...

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:: 27 April, 2009
The generation of laser light with polaritons show a gain close to 100, much higher than what is done with conventional lasers. Further progress...

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:: 17 March, 2009
Quantum mechanics is the root of the phenomena of the universe. For decades, many great physicists and neurobiologists suspect that it may be the...

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:: 03 February, 2009
Researchers at the University of Alberta in Canada have achieved an impressive breakthrough in nanotechnology. They have managed to build the...

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:: 02 February, 2009
It seeks to model the human brain by using electronic circuits obeying what is believed to be the laws of a network of neurons. The reverse is...

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:: 11 January, 2009
The ability to incorporate individual atoms in a surface following predetermined arrangements may bring future atom-based technological enterprises...

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:: 13 December, 2008
The transfer of quantum information in a network, such as cryptography and quantum computing, requires a memory to store qubits. But these fragile...

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:: 19 August, 2008
For its 50th anniversary, the New Scientist has asked 70 of the "brightest
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:: 04 October, 2007
RIKEN, NEC Corporation, and JST ("Japan Science and Technology Agency") have successfully demonstrated a laser emission from one artificial atom by...

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