Quantum Information Research at NIST: Goals and Vision

What Good Is Quantum Information?

What is Quantum Information?

Quantum Computing

• Ion Qubits, Neutral Atom Qubits, and Superconducting Qubits
• Beam Me Up Einstein!
  NIST Demonstrates Teleportation
• Engineering Secrets: How to Entangle Ions

Quantum Communications

• Making a Quantum "Key"
• Quantum Information Theory

Selected NIST publications

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Selected NIST Publications

Physicist Joshua Bienfang sets up the NIST quantum key distribution system to receive a stream of photons from the top floor of another building (shown in the background).

Quantum Computing

E. Knill. Quantum computing with very noisy devices. Nature 434:39–44 (2005)

R. McDermott, R.W. Simmonds, M. Steffen, K.B. Cooper, K. Cicak, K. Osborn, S. Oh, D.P. Pappas, and J.M. Martinis. Simultaneous state measurement of coupled Josephson phase qubits. Science 307:1299–1302 (2005)

J. Chiaverini, D. Leibfried, T. Schaetz, M.D. Barrett, R.B. Blakestad, J. Britton, W.M. Itano, J.D. Jost, E. Knill, C. Langer, R. Ozeri, and D.J. Wineland. Realization of quantum error correction. Nature 432:602–605 (2004) 

B. Laburthe-Tolra, K.M. O’Hara, J.H. Huckans, W.D. Phillips, S.L. Rolston, and J.V. Porto. Observation of reduced three-body recombination in a correlated 1D degenerate Bose gas. Physical Review Letters 92, 190401 (2004)

M.D. Barrett, J. Chiaverini, T. Schaetz, J. Britton, W.M. Itano, J.D. Jost, E. Knill, C. Langer, D. Leibfried, R. Ozeri, and D.J. Wineland. Deterministic quantum teleportation of atomic qubits. Nature 429:737–739 (2004)

J.V. Porto, S. Rolston, B. Laburthe-Tolra, C.J. Williams, and W.D. Phillips. Quantum information with neutral atoms as qubits. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London Series A 361, 1417–1427 (2003)

D. Kielpinski, C. Monroe, and D.J. Wineland. Architecture for a large-scale ion-trap quantum computer. Nature 417:709–711 (2002)

Quantum Communications

A. Nakassis, J. Bienfang, and C. Williams. Expeditious reconciliation for practical quantum key distribution. Quantum Information and Computation II, Proc. SPIE Vol. 5436 (2004)

M. Ware and A. Migdall. Single photon detector characterization using correlated photons: the march from feasibility to metrology. Journal of Modern Optics 51 (9-10):1549–1557 (2004)

J.C. Bienfang, A.J. Gross, A. Mink, B.J. Hershman, A. Nakassis, X. Tang, R. Lu, D.H. Su, C.W. Clark, C.J. Williams, E.W. Hagley, and J. Wen. Quantum key distribution with 1.25 Gbps clock synchronization. Optics Express 12(9):2011–2016 (2004)

.J. Miller, S.W. Nam, J.M. Martinis, and A.V. Sergienko. Demonstration of a low-noise near-infrared photon counter with multi-photon discrimination. Applied Physics Letters 83(4):791–793 (2003)

Date created: 4/11/06
Last updated: 4/18/06
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