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Articles tagged with "quantum"

05/10/2013

Notes from the Back Row: "Quantum Entanglement and Quantum Computing"

Douglas Smith

John Preskill, the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, is hooked on quanta.

09/13/2000

NSF funds new Institute for Quantum Information at Caltech

The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $5 million grant to the California Institute of Technology to create an institute devoted to quantum information science—a new field that coul

04/27/2000

Physicists observe the quantum of heat flow

Robert Tindol

Physicists at the California Institute of Technology have announced the first observation of the quantum of thermal conductance.

03/20/2000

Using quantum atomistic computer simulations to solve industrial problems

Robert Tindol

PASADENA—In the world of engineering and applied science, ideas that look good on the drawing board often turn out to have annoying real-world problems, even though the finished products still loo

10/22/1998

Caltech physicists achieve first bona fide quantum teleportation

Robert Tindol

Physicists at the California Institute of Technology, joined by an international collaboration, have succeeded in the first true teleportation of a quantum state. Caltech physicists achieve first bona fide quantum teleportation October 1998 98

01/09/1996

Scientists Report Interactions Between Individual Photons: First Step Toward a Quantum Computer

John Avery

PASADENA—Caltech physicists have demonstrated that individual photons, which normally do not interact, can strongly influence each other when brought together with an atom inside an optical cavity.