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Researchers Work to Integrate Optics into Ion Traps for Quantum Applications

Despite a steady improvement in the speed of conventional computers during the last few decades, certain types of problems remain computationally difficult to solve.

26 May 2010

FusionSolar from Custom-Bilt Metals

Custom-Bilt Metals and Unique Concepts Inc. declared that a 5.7kw solar system has been built on the recently renovated St. Bartholomew’s Chapel, which is located on the Rincon Reservation, Valley Center, CA. The system is incorporated with standing seam metal roofing. Custom-Bilt Metals has been the environmental leader, which it has achieved by the novelty in its products. Unique Concepts Inc. is a contractor of metal roofing.

21 May 2010

New Quantum Interface Developed Based on Ultra-Thin Glass Fiber

Physicists at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have developed a quantum interface which connects light particles and atoms.

21 May 2010

Single Rubidium Atom Controls Light Transmission Through Optical Cavity

Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT) describes the effect, that the interaction of an atomic medium with a weak laser field can be controlled and manipulated coherently with a second, strong laser field.

14 May 2010

Physicists Discover Exotic Atomic Collisions Using Optical Lattice

The experiment starts by cooling a dilute cloud of hundreds of thousands of atoms to temperatures close to absolute zero, approximately -273 degrees Celsius.

14 May 2010

Significant Step Towards Development of Quantum Armchair Nanowires

In two new papers, Rice University researchers report using ultracentrifugation (UCF) to create highly purified samples of carbon nanotube species.

11 May 2010

Physicists Use Optical Lattice to Trap Rydberg Atoms

In an achievement that could help enable fast quantum computers, University of Michigan physicists have built a better Rydberg atom trap. Rydberg atoms are highly excited, nearly-ionized giants that can be thousands of times larger than their ground-state counterparts.

7 May 2010

Shrink to Market Quantum Dot Solar Concentrator Technologies Under PowerSkin Brand

Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. (“Shrink”), an innovative nanotechnology company developing products and licensing opportunities in the solar energy production, medical diagnostics and sensors and biotechnology research and development tools businesses, announced today that it has received notification that it has purchased the PowerSkin™ trademarks from the bankruptcy estate associated with the Millennium Cell.

4 May 2010

NIST's New Dimmer Switch Can Speed Up Quantum Computer Development

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed the first "dimmer switch" for a superconducting circuit linking a quantum bit (qubit) and a quantum bus—promising technologies for storing and transporting information in future quantum computers.

29 Apr 2010