An Important Step Toward Quantum Networking

This article from the TMCnet news feeds caught my eye this morning:

Physicists Show Quantum Storage Of Single Photons

This is a release from "Space Daily" announcing that physicists from the Georgia Institute of Technology have achieved "the storage and retrieval of single photons transmitted between remote quantum memories composed of rubidium atoms." The article is quick to point out that this achievement is rudimentary, but it does represent an important step toward the goal of quantum networking, that is, a sought-after technology that would allow computer networking and communications based on storage and processing of information using photons and atoms.

AB -- 12/12/05

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December 12, 2005 8:59 AM |