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NIST Detector Counts Photons With 99 Percent Efficiency
Release Date: 04/13/2010 Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed* the world's most efficient single photon detector, which … more
Stacking the Deck: Single Photons Observed at Seemingly Faster-than-Light Speeds
Release Date: 01/26/2010
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Everlasting Quantum Wave: NIST Physicists Predict New Form of Soliton in Ultracold Gases
Release Date: 12/15/2009 Solitary waves that run a long distance without losing their shape or dying out are a special class of waves called solitons. These everlasting … more
NIST Physicists Turn to Radio Dial for Finer Atomic Matchmaking
Release Date: 10/20/2009 Investigating mysterious data in ultracold gases of rubidium atoms, scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute of the National Institute of … more
Light Touch: Controlling the Behavior of Quantum Dots
Release Date: 08/19/2008 Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaborative center of the … more
Loopy Photons Clarify ’Spookiness‘ of Quantum Physics
Release Date: 03/18/2008 Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Joint Quantum Institute (NIST/University of Maryland) have … more
‘Dead Time’ Limits Quantum Cryptography Speeds
Release Date: 09/27/2007 Quantum cryptography is potentially the most secure method of sending encrypted information, but does it have a speed limit? According to a new … more
Two NIST Researchers Earn Presidential Honors
Release Date: 08/03/2006 The White House has announced that two researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are among the 56 recipients of the … more
NIST Photon Detectors Have Record Efficiency
Release Date: 06/02/2005 Sensors that detect and count single photons, the smallest quantities of light, with 88 percent efficiency have been demonstrated by physicists at … more |
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