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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
... > full story
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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