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SWAP Gate Could Help in Scaling Quantum Computers

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

The quantum optics lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science has created a logic gate in which a photon and an atom can automatically exchange the information they carry. This advance could help in scaling up quantum computers for practical use. ...

Sep 5, 2018

Fish-eye lens may entangle pairs of atoms

MIT News   -   Organizations and Universities Websites

Scientists find a theoretical optical device may have uses in quantum computing.

Sep 5, 2018

Scientists 'teleport' a quantum gate

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have demonstrated one of the key steps in building the architecture for modular quantum computers: the 'teleportation' of a quantum gate between two qubits, on demand.

Sep 5, 2018

Why size matters for gold as a catalyst

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Advanced microscopy study reveals insights into the catalytic activity of gold nanoparticles.

Sep 5, 2018

Why size matters for gold as a catalyst

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Advanced microscopy study reveals insights into the catalytic activity of gold nanoparticles.

Sep 5, 2018

Could a 'demon' help create a quantum computer? Physicists implement a version of Maxwell's famous thought experiment for reducing entropy

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Physicists have employed a version of Maxwell's demon to reduce entropy in a three-dimensional lattice of super-cooled, laser-trapped atoms -- a process that could help speed progress toward creating quantum computers.

Sep 5, 2018

FOXSI Mission Will View The Sun With X-Ray Vision

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

Without special instrumentation, the Sun looks calm and inert. But beneath that placid façade are countless miniature explosions called nanoflares. These small but intense eruptions... The post FOXSI Mission Will View The Sun With X-Ray Vision ap...

Sep 5, 2018

Heat transfer surprise could lead to thermal transistors

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

As much as 100 times more heat than predicted by the standard radiation theory can flow between two nanoscale objects, even at bigger-than-nanoscale distances.

Sep 5, 2018

Measuring the Nanoworld

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

A worldwide study involving 20 laboratories has established and standardized a method to measure exact distances within individual biomolecules, down to the scale of one millionth of the width of a human hair. The new method represents a major im...

Sep 5, 2018

Heat transfer surprise could lead to thermal transistors

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

As much as 100 times more heat than predicted by the standard radiation theory can flow between two nanoscale objects, even at bigger-than-nanoscale distances.

Sep 5, 2018

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