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Significant Progress Towards Realization of Satellite-Based Quantum Communications

A multi-institute research team, which also includes scientists from the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), has successfully teleported quantum data between the Canary Islands of La Palma and Tenerife, covering a record distance of 143 km over free space.

7 Sep 2012

Slovakia Focuses on Development of Quantum Technologies and Quantum Computing

Slovakia has made significant advances both in science and technology and its economic development. The government's 2011-2013 innovation policy concentrates on increasing collaboration between the private and public sector for encouraging science education and innovation. The Slovak Academy of Sciences is supporting a wide range of projects, including those in the quantum field.

21 Aug 2012

Researchers Employ Electrodes to Read Out Quantum Bits

Quantum computers are capable of achieving processing speeds much greater than current generation of computers. Though they employ quantum mechanisms, quantum computers will still be susceptible to external influences.

17 Aug 2012

Quantum Entanglement Across Space and Time

The concept of quantum entanglement, which is defined as the correlation between two quantum particles in space, has got more interesting owing to the research carried out at the Institute of Quantum Computing by postdoctoral fellow Eduardo Martin-Martinez.

17 Aug 2012

NIST’s Zippy Ions May Prove Useful in Future Quantum Computers

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated the accurate control of rapid acceleration and instantaneous stops of their beryllium ions in an ion trap.

14 Aug 2012

New Quantum Algorithm for Data Analysis

A new quantum algorithm for data analysis has been demonstrated by a team of researchers.

13 Aug 2012

Study Proves Incompleteness and Limit of Security Theory in Quantum Cryptography

A team of scientists from the Quantum ICT Research Institute of Tamagawa University in Japan has reported that the researchers have demonstrated the limit and incompleteness of the security theory in quantum cryptography or quantum key distribution.

7 Aug 2012

Researchers Achieve Significant Progress Towards Quantum Information Processing

A research team from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has developed a first-of-its-kind monolithic three-dimensional (3D) ion microtrap array that may be scaled up to confine several tens of ion-based quantum bits (qubits).

25 Jul 2012

New Technique Reliably Assesses Information on Quantum Computing and Cryptography

A research team comprising Filippo Miatto and other physicists from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, has discovered a new technique to reliably evaluate the information carried by photon pairs utilized for quantum computing and cryptography applications.

13 Jul 2012

Researchers Illustrate First Silicon-Based Heralded Single Photon Source

Scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Politecnico di Milano, and the University of California (UC), San Diego, have shown the first heralded single photon source generated from silicon, a significant step towards the realization of more realistic quantum information processing.

29 Jun 2012