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Don’t Call It Vaporware: Scientists Use Cloud of Atoms as Optical Memory Device
Release Date: 04/03/2013 Talk about storing data in the cloud. Scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) of the National Institute of Standards and … more
NIST Mechanical Micro-Drum Used as Quantum Memory
Release Date: 03/13/2013 One of the oldest forms of computer memory is back again—but in a 21st century microscopic device designed by physicists at the National … more
NIST Quantum Refrigerator Offers Extreme Cooling and Convenience
Release Date: 03/05/2013 Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a solid-state refrigerator that uses quantum physics in … more
NIST's 'Nanotubes on a Chip' May Simplify Optical Power Measurements
Release Date: 01/24/2013 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has demonstrated a novel chip-scale instrument made of carbon nanotubes that may … more
'Standard Quantum Limit' Smashed, Could Mean Better Fiber-Optic Comms
Release Date: 01/08/2013 Communicating with light may soon get a lot easier, hints recent research* from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the … more
Princeton/NIST Collaboration Puts Wheels on the Quantum Bus
Release Date: 10/19/2012 In yet another step toward the realization of a practical quantum computer, scientists working at Princeton and the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) … more
NIST Researcher David Wineland Wins 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics
Release Date: 10/16/2012 David J. Wineland, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has won the … more
NIST's Speedy Ions Could Add Zip to Quantum Computers
Release Date: 08/08/2012 Take that, sports cars! Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can accelerate their beryllium ions from zero to … more
Seeing the Light with NIST's New Noiseless Optical Amplifier
Release Date: 08/08/2012 Most devices that amplify light suffer from the same problem: making the image brighter also adds muddying distortion. Scientists working at the … more
Hark! Group Demonstrates First Heralded Single Photon Source Made from Silicon
Release Date: 06/27/2012 In an important step towards more practical quantum information processing, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology … more
New Quantum Computing Algorithm Could Simulate Giant Particle Accelerators
Release Date: 06/12/2012 A trio of theorists, including one from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), have described how a future quantum computer … more
Quantum Computers Will Be Able to Simulate Particle Collisions
Release Date: 05/31/2012 Quantum computers are still years away, but a trio of theorists has already figured out at least one talent they may have. According to the … more
First Light: NIST Researchers Develop New Way to Generate Superluminal Pulses
Release Date: 05/02/2012 Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a novel way of producing light pulses that are … more
NIST Physicists Benchmark Quantum Simulator with Hundreds of Qubits
Release Date: 04/25/2012 Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a quantum simulator that can engineer interactions among … more
Atoms Dressed with Light Show New Interactions, Could Reveal Way to Observe Enigmatic Particle
Release Date: 12/08/2011 Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have found a way to manipulate atoms’ internal states with … more |
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