In a cornfield in India, Urbasi Sinha ran an experiment that may challenge the rules of quantum mechanics and paves the way for higher dimensional quantum computing
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So, what do you do?
I work with photons, investigating their use as building blocks for quantum technologies. These could revolutionise our lives due to their promise for exponential speed-ups in computing and unprecedented security in communications. One of our current projects involves quantum communication between two continents using a satellite.
The triple-slit experiment sounds interesting, what is it?
The double-slit experiment shows that photons act both as waves and as particles, but it also suggests that a single photon passes through both slits at the same time, a phenomenon called superposition. We devised a way to test if …
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