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Physicists establish ‘spooky’ quantum communication

"This linkage between remote atoms could be the fundamental piece of a radically new quantum computer architecture," said Professor Christopher Monroe, the principal investigator who did this research while at U-M, but is now at the University of Maryland. "Now that the technique has been demonstrated, it should be possible to scale it up to networks of many interconnected components that will eventually be necessary for quantum information processing."

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intrinsi on September 6th 2007 in Quantum Physics

Qubit Chips

Superconducting Qubits Tie the NOT Gate

Researchers are creeping closer to a small quantum computer built from loops of superconducting metal. A team has demonstrated a key ingredient of such a computer by using one superconducting loop to control the information stored on a second. Combined with other recent advances, the result may pave the way for devices of double the size in the next year or two—closer to what other quantum computing candidates have achieved, says physicist Hans Mooij of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

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intrinsi on June 24th 2007 in Quantum Physics