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Lockheed Martin is Buying One of D-Wave's Brand New Quantum Computers
Quantum Computer Courtesy D-Wave The very notion of quantum computing is a bit mind numbing, and the technology is so nascent that researchers aren't even really sure of the best way to go about...
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Researchers Entangle and Observe Eight Photons Simultaneously, Smashing the...
And That's How You Entangle Eight Photons At The Same Time via arXivLike a long-distance romance, quantum entanglement is a fragile interaction; one moment, two particles can be sharing that special...
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By Delivering Qubits Alongside Classical Data, Researchers Move Toward...
Moving Toward a Quantum Internet Iris Choi, et al. ©2011 IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft via PhysOrgIs this the beginning of the quantum Internet? UK researchers have shown...
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NIST Scientists Use Microwaves to Quantum-Entangle Two Ions for the First Time
NIST's Microwave Ion Entangler Y. Colombe/NIST We're still many years away from the first functioning quantum computer the size of a building, much less the first one the size of a desktop computer or...
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The Unsplittable Bit
Plucking the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge Jesse Lenz A countryman came into a telegraph office in Bangor, Maine, with a message, and asked that it be sent immediately. The operator took the message...
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Air Force Researchers are Building Simple Quantum Computers Out of Holograms
Quantum Computing with Holograms Just like that Warner A. Miller, Grigoriy Kreymerman, Christopher Tison, Paul M. Alsing, Jonathan R. McDonald via arXivIn a paper far too daunting for a Monday,...
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The Largest-Ever Quantum Calculation Uses 84 Qubits and Takes Just 270...
Quantum Computer Courtesy D-Wave Vancouver-based quantum computer maker D-Wave Systems is the kind of company that often gets mixed reviews--either kudos for working on the very edge of a new and...
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Cloud-Based Quantum Computing Will Allow Secure Calculation on Encrypted Bits
Entangled Qubits Clusters of entangled qubits allow remote quantum computing to be performed on a remote server, while keeping the contents and results hidden. EQUINOX GRAPHICS When quantum computers...
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MIT Scientist Offers $100,000 to Anyone Who Can Prove Quantum Computing Is...
Qubits in Liquid Helium D-Wave Systems Inc. Scott Aaronson, a scientist at MIT who works mostly with theoretical quantum computers, issued a challenge to all of those deniers out there: prove that...
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How It Would Work: Creating a Quantum Computer
IBM's 2-D Superconducting Qubit Mounted on a Chip IBM Research via FlickrSilicon semiconductors have taken us a dazzling distance along the computing road. But even if they continue unabated to get...
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NIST's Quantum Simulator Mimics Hundreds of Qubits Interacting
A Layer of Super-Cooled Beryllium Ions Can Act as a Quantum System Simulator Britton/NIST In a case that's somewhat chicken-and-egg, one of the many reasons computer scientists and physicists are...
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A Diamond Quantum Bit Holds Data for Nearly Two Seconds at Room Temperature
Working Quantum Bits from Diamonds Mikhail Lukin (from left), Georg Kucsko, and Christian Latta have created a qubit from lab-grown diamonds that maintains coherence for up to two seconds--a very long...
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Physicists Demonstrate Working Quantum Router, a Step Toward a Quantum Internet
Quantum Computer Chip Wikimedia Commons As much as we love our silicon semiconductors, quantum computers are very much a technology of the future. Instead of the usual string of 1s and 0s, they'll be...
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Google And NASA Team Up In Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab
D-Wave Quantum Computer D-Wave Google announced today a partnership with NASA and D-Wave to launch a lab to solve artificial intelligence problems with the aid of quantum computing. Quantum computing...
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Commercial Quantum Computer Actually Works, According To New Testing
Quantum Computer Courtesy D-Wave Since the Canadian company D-Wave began selling so-called quantum processors, experts have debated whether they're truly quantum. Now, according to an analysis by...
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Is IBM Making Plans For The End Of Silicon?
IBM is putting $3 billion towards new chip research. Christina Welsh/Flickr Since the computer age began, microchips have consistently been shrunk to smaller and smaller sizes. Moore’s Law,...
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Quantum Mechanics Saves Grandfathers From Time Travelers
Chrononauts Time Travel Card Game Mess up enough history, and the paradoxes will overwhelm the space-time continuum, ending the world. EUS, via Wikimedia Commons Mention time travel at a nerd party,...
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Light Forms Crystal-Like Structure On Computer Chip
Visible light shining The study used microwaves. Zouavman Le Zouave via Wikimedia Commons Princeton researchers have managed to cause light to behave like a crystal within a specialized computer chip,...
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Shipping Containers Could Relay Quantum Information Across Oceans
Cargo Ship Glen via FlickrPhysics says that if two particles are entangled on a quantum level, they are permanently linked -- a change in one particle will instantaneously affect the other one, no...
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