
New Basic Element For Electronic Circuits: 'Memristor' Could Give Computers Memories That Don't Forget
Researchers from HP Labs
have proven the existence of
what had previously been
only theorized as the fourth
fundamental circuit element
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Beating The Codebreakers With Quantum Cryptography
Quantum cryptography may be
essentially solved, but
getting the funky physics to
work on disciplined computer
networks is a whole new
headache. Cryptography is an
... > full story

Exotic Quantum State Of Matter Discovered
Scientists from Princeton
University have found that
one of the most intriguing
phenomena in
condensed-matter physics --
known as the quantum Hall
effect -- can occur in
... > full story

Innovative Atom Trap Catches Highly Magnetic Atoms, Cools Atoms To Almost Absolute Zero
Scientists have succeeded in
cooling atoms of a
rare-earth element, erbium,
to within two millionths of
a degree of absolute zero
... > full story
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Quantum Cryptography: Researchers Break 'Unbreakable' Crypto
May 8, 2008 Quantum cryptography has been regarded as 100-percent protection against attacks on sensitive data traffic. But now a research team in Sweden has found a hole in this advanced technology. The risk of ... > full story -
Quantum Mechanical Con Game: Winning Every Time
May 6, 2008 For the first time, physicists have come up with a scheme that would allow a quantum mechanical expert to win every time in a con game with a victim who only knows about classical physics. Prior ... > full story -
Secure Communications Via Space
April 23, 2008 The exchange of information between distant sources is the basis of all communications, but quantum mechanics may open up this distant exchange as never before. Quantum key distribution, for ... > full story -
What Happens When You Pop A Quantum Balloon?
April 20, 2008 When a tiny, quantum-scale, hypothetical balloon is popped in a vacuum, do the particles inside spread out all over the place as predicted by classical mechanics? A Nature paper answers the question, ... > full story -
Creating Quantum Computers Using Entangled Photons In Optical Fibers Getting Closer
April 9, 2008 Computer scientists are one step closer to realizing distributed quantum computing. They recently demonstrated one of the basic building blocks for distributed quantum computing using entangled ... > full story -
Future Of Computing: Carbon Nanotubes And Superconductors To Replace The Silicon Chip
March 30, 2008 As steady increases in computing capability continue, some new technology will have to take over from silicon. Carbon nanotubes and superconductors may be the answer. The silicon chip, which has ... > full story -
Exquisite Photon Control On A Silicon Chip Is Major Advance Toward Quantum Computing
March 28, 2008 A team of physicists and engineers has demonstrated exquisite control of single particles of light -- photons -- on a silicon chip to make a major advance towards the long sought after goal of a ... > full story -
Hyper-entangled Photons: 'Superdense' Coding Gets Denser
March 25, 2008 The record for the most amount of information sent by a single photon has been broken. Using the direction of "wiggling" and "twisting" of a pair of hyper-entangled photons, they have beaten a ... > full story -
Physicists Learn How Quantum Mechanical States Break Down
March 24, 2008 Researchers have made significant advancements in understanding a fundamental problem of quantum mechanics -- one that is blocking efforts to develop practical quantum computers with processing ... > full story -
Loopy Photons Clarify 'Spookiness' Of Quantum Physics
March 19, 2008 Researchers have developed a new method for creating pairs of entangled photons, particles of light whose properties are interlinked in a very unusual way dictated by the rules of quantum ... > full story
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